Dave Alber is the inventor of Hybrid VR Paintings—invented a...
Dave Alber is the inventor of Hybrid VR Paintings—invented as an unbroken bridge in the continuity from traditional painting to VR painting—these physical paintings allow a VR experience. Dave's paintings are a marriage of cutting-edge technology and traditional craft in art. While exhibiting art overseas, he invented Hybrid VR Paintings to push traditional painting to the limit. Alber revealed his new medium in exhibitions, three books, an online VR gallery, and the VR Paintings app. His Virtual Reality paintings can be found at http://davealber.com Wildness: Wild Flowers at Bayport Park Thriving in spite of the year’s difficulties, these swimmers at Bayport Park—rising from the water’s edge like wild flowers—are a reminder of the resilience of American wildness. Wildness is there in our love for nature. It resides even in our green suburban lawns. It is as if we are reaching out into nature, and surrounding ourselves with it, saying, “This greenery is part of me, part of my world.” All across America, homebuyers surround themselves with a little cosmos of greenery. “This, I am.” Wildness, I hope to suggest, is foundational to the development of the American worldview, feeling tone, and aesthetic. If we look at the visual arts, for example, American painting doesn’t develop a character uniquely its own until the Hudson River School painters portrayed the wildness of the American landscape. In these 19th century paintings, one feels an expansive sense of awe at the raw power of untamed nature. It is nature touched and felt both within and without. For Americans, “home” has long been on the edge of wild frontiers, and so we may take for granted the wildness of the forest of Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans; the woods in Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown; the sea of Melville’s Moby Dick; the tundra of London’s The Call of the Wild. It is as if we are, in our spirit and sense of character, perpetually on the edge of a natural wildness that is both our interiority, as in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and our natural virtuousness expressed outwardly, as in the tradition of Natural Law, from Aristotle to Aquinas to Lock to Jefferson; the Declaration of Independence assuming its authority from “the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God”. Natural law is also the precedent for Lincoln’s arguments against slavery in the Lincoln-Douglas debates as well as being the foundation for Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil disobedience. Our deep nature—as untrammeled as wild flowers sprouting from the tropical shore on a sunny day—is, according to this tradition of thought, the foundation for, not only our human reason, but for all of our virtues and graces.
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