About the Art Prosthetics &Photography of Steve Rankin

PhotoArt

FantasyArt

ComicArt

Illustration

Illustration is my primary creative focus. I like to create action based, old fashioned fun, comic book and classic fantasy art. Even much of what I do with 3D software has a more classic appeal to it.

Mindfulness Through Creation

Steve is an OT and preventitive medicine clinician working with adult populations to increase mindfullness through expressive and creative modes. The computer and digital media has gotten a bad rap as a more mindless pursuit, however this has more to do with the lack of purposeful intention behind the time spent. Creative and expressive potential as enabled by digital media is vast and varied. The scope of the medium includes writing, drawing, modeling, virsual reality and augmented reality. It is my hope to further explore the purposeful application of this modality for it's more mindful and life enhancing potential to those with depression, anxiety and a need for such outlets.

Contrasting Diversity

The varied purpose of practice may at first appear to be an inconcerted hodge podge of offerings. This is not the case. Art, adventure, expression, exploration and recreation are all very necessary aspects of the scope of human occupation. Appreciation, story telling and creative catharsis are all aspects that make us happy, fulfill our occupational passtimes and allow us to interact with and to understand nature within and around us. The purpose is to consider the whole person and serve their needs.

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Mindfullness as an approach to promote occupational self-actualization

There are many barriers to self-actualization, happiness and our abilities to function well within modern society. TV, cellphones and our plugged in lives may create a state of perpetual mindlessness in which we lack creative motive and simply do not engage in life. Creativity, expression, paying attention and appreciating the elements and opportunities to interact, make something and havea useful interface with the real world are often lost in modern society. Computers and technology are a part of our age, however we must not allow the virtual world to become a wedge between us and our real world mindful connectedness. The very intention and focus on that as a meaningful and therapeutic tool makes thoughtful engagment therepeutic.