{"id":242,"date":"2020-12-02T18:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=242"},"modified":"2020-12-19T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T16:54:47","slug":"volker-stox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Volker Stox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Volker about his work: &#8221; I work in digital media using a computer to make my images sometimes crossing over and back to traditional painting. To me it is always an adventure to create a beautiful thing from nothing. The element of surprise plays a big part in the process. Just like in traditional painting, it is good to let things happen; even though I have used this electronic medium for many years I still don\u2019t understand it and, inherently, there are always &#8216;accidents&#8217; which make in image work.&#8221;<br>About real beauty: &#8220;Beauty is, of course in the eye of the beholder, and we, as artists, are only \u2018facilitators\u2019 and, as has been said, the smallest part of the process of bringing BEAUTY to existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title:&nbsp;Parallel Universe 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/volkerstox.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/volkerstox.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IG: volkerstoxart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PARRALLEL-UNIVERSE-3-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sunset-orange-color has-text-color has-larger-font-size\">Volker Stox: &#8220;Beauty is, of course in the eye of the beholder, and we, as artists, are only facilitators and the smallest part of the process of bringing BEAUTY to existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Kingdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-graphic-art","category-illustration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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