Author: Zack Ramey
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Reinterpreted as a COVID concept album
Reflecting on Love is a Place as a concept album about my experience during the COVID-19 quarantine STREAM: YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon MusicBUY the CD. It took a while to master the album because it was my first time mastering anything and that learning curve is steep. The process took place during the…
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Dignity, a Shape
Images contain thoughts. We need images to think. Some images have more vocal thoughts than others. While I drew this a question kept resurfacing: could dignity be contained in a shape, in form alone? There is something dignified about inner proportion and balance. Of course! Nature has dignity. Trees, vegetables, seashells, skeletons: they do not…
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Drawing Around an R.L. Stevenson Quote
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Ink Drawing and a Note on Effortless Effort
The titanic effort that we sometimes suspect is required for what we want–whether to calm our restless inner chatter, to attain peace, happiness, or motivation–is what prevents us from attaining it. Over the last couple of days, I have not been able to shake this image of a mother putting her infant to bed. An…
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12 Ways of Looking at It
I’m excited to have this design made available by demand for printing on clothing by a company called Design By Humans. I’m calling the soundscape “Opticentric” in keeping with the theme. It and the drawing were finished at about the same time. Shout out to Alphonso Dunn, whose eye ink studies have been a great…