Hola!
Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of Henry Martin, genius! And please be aware that you truly ARE peering into the mind of a genius. You will know I’m a genius when you hear my voice in my songs and observe me paint and view my paintings. As you visit my website and return, you will be able to track numerous courses of my thinking and philosophy as I continue to create every day. So visit my website often, come back to see what’s up and what’s new, and tell everyone you know about the Henry Martin experience……..because…….. I’m a genius! (It’s true…)
And Remember….
Art is the spiritual center of the living world. It just is. Truer words cannot be spoken.
The origin of thought arises through art. Creativity is intrinsic to any individual thinker. As a genius, I often meditate on the manner in which evolution, both biological and cultural, has engendered and continues to shape creativity in our species. Human beings evolved alongside other higher primates who could not develop creative thinking because their skulls were too dense to afford the cranial capacity needed for creativity. Those primates are apes. The creative act allows individuals of our species to think for themselves, and this act is how we push our species and our culture forward. Without art, we would still be living in the trees. Creativity is the divine right of our species.
Teilhard de Chardin, perhaps the twentieth century’s most original thinker, describes humanity as “evolution becoming aware of itself.” ( Yup, by gum by golly…) Quantum physics, which, weirdly, works, posits that all matter in its fundamental state, is simultaneously energy. Therefore all matter in every state is also energy. If evolution has engendered in our species the act of thought and creativity, then creativity and thought must somehow be intrinsically woven into the fabric of the universe, and matter, at its core, must be alive. When you gaze at the stars, you are seeing protoplasm!
So, these are the thoughts that swim throughout my brain everyday as I go out to paint a bridge, or have a cocktail and write a song. Is genius pain? Was John or Paul the walrus? Who is the egg man?
Do you remember, when you were a kid, just coming into awareness of the existence of everything, how absolutely WONDERFUL it is to be alive? An artist, the true artist, lives with this same awareness on a daily level, hour by hour, as every drop of time flows by. Our world is beautiful beyond beautiful! Please stop and smell the flowers. But really………stop.
And smell the flowers…..
Look. Come Look……
Please gaze out upon the vast smile of water that flows throughout our lives every day.
Think.
You can see my resume if you need to. I have one. Maybe I’ll put genius at the top, but people won’t get it. Isn’t this a better way to discover who I really am?
As a genius, I also happen to be standing at a confluence of events that places me, right now, at the absolute center of the universe, and the view from here is…..AMAZING!!! I want to share it with you. This confluence arises from several diverse elements: the internet now allows me to be visible as an amazingly talented painter and musician; I’ve got it, I’m the real deal, and I live in Philadelphia. Philadelphia may be the center, the leading edge, of art and music as it’s happening in our culture right now. The vitality and talent of the Philadelphia’s creative class astonishes me, even as I take part in it! I’ve witnessed kids at open mikes develop into strong and charismatic forces. I personally know more than one artist who has been described as “the greatest painter alive.” This is Philadelphia, and I stand at the nexus of these vibrant communities.
Please also remember that our country comes from Philadelphia; the tradition of liberalism and tolerance that gave birth to our constitution, itself an amazing manifestation of human creativity, is still alive within the fabric of our city, and this tradition envelopes the vitality of our city’s creative culture.
So now you know who I am, and you know that I’m a genius. Salvadore Dali is also a genius, yet he attempted to attract the world’s attention through slicking his hair back with courier shellac, an act I refuse to do. Would you want to wash your hair with turpentine? I wish to gain recognition through having YOU interact with me through the following possibilities….
Visit me at my easel, as I paint Philadelphia.
Watch me perform at local venues.
And, if you like my songs and decide to download them, please tell your friends to do the same. There could easily be a hundred more where those came from. My biggest influences are the voices in my head; I’m not trying to sound like any one else, I’m just being me. I’m a genius, which is exactly why people will like me. At the very least I’m looking to fully publish a CD, which even in its unfinished form is AMAZING! I want to share it with you, you will be thrilled, but I will absolutely need fan support in order to finance and finish the final product. I have a strong, diverse and devoted fan base, they just don’t know it yet.
So, now you too can experience the wild and wonderful world of………..Henry Martin…..genius! And tell everyone…………. And come back………….and smell the flowers……..