The Great Kinyon
What must I do?
What can I say? Or is there something, if I show you, you’ll stop and look? If a picture is worth a thousand words, would you give me two minutes to show you something that’s worthless and has no value?
Art is a form of individual expression that maintains its own unique energy. You can create a new feeling or internal expression just by looking at it, thus creating a new image internally of your own life. Meaning, you can feel something totally new, something you’ve never felt before, and create a new life…just by looking at a piece of art.
What if art is something more than just an expression of one’s self? I think it's taking empty space and filling it with something that’s unique and individualistic from the creator. It becomes its own self with its own name, life, feelings, and memories. It’s an exchange of energy that’s internal and connected to us all. We can’t explain it; we just feel it.
I think that’s why we say art is subjective. You first have to experience something inside yourself. Something only you have the power to create internally. It’s the energy used to fill the empty space and make it become seen, become real in your world.
How painful would it be if incredible things holding this special energy were never looked at, and the exchange could never take place? What would be lost in the process? What would you call any of this other than “trash” if it never had the opportunity to do its job?
For a life of more than ninety years, Dell Kinyon Taylor spent his time making unique pieces of energy that have yet to be discovered, felt, or understood by anyone for what they are.
It was never intended for galleries, collectors, recognition, or anyone to know what he was doing, for that matter. He did it for the few people who loved him and for the simple pleasure of making something.
When I asked him, “How were you able to do all of this?”, he would smile and say, “All of this is magic, my dear boy…real magic. And its simple ingredient is love.”
Drawings.
Paintings.
Etchings.
Carvings.
Pottery.
Jewelry.
Stained glass.
Textiles.
Clothing.
Taxidermy.
Gardens.
Architecture.
Poetry.
Singing.
This goes deep…deeper than you can possibly imagine. It’s a story that’s real and holds unique energy that’s unlike anything else you’ve experienced or heard of. It will be felt for generations to come once preservation begins and the story starts to unfold.
Everything you see here was made by one man:
The Great Kinyon.
A Life Making Rich History
Everyone has to start somewhere; that’s what makes the Kinyon collection so unique. It’s remarkably complete and incredibly interconnected with the sourcing and creation of Dell’s own materials.
We have pieces dating to as young as age 7 and continue until his death at age 92. Pieces are connected by their usage in other works or objects decades later. Some pieces took him nearly 40 years to collect the needed materials and required traveling the world. By learning the story, you can take on a new perspective to these images.
You can start to see beyond the process of craftmanship, experiencing his incredible use of materials; you begin to feel the changing of his very soul by the act of making.
The sheer quality of these pieces begin to surpass normal description. They begin to take on a life of their own and can only be seen and described as “fine art.” By understanding the story, it takes on an even deeper meaning, one that only you have the power to create.
The House
To understand the home is something totally different than trying to understand the Artist. Over time, the home created its own energy and personality. One that’s truly felt by everyone that enters.
The Front Doors
The front doors alone should tell you everything you need to know, leaving you with questions that, unfortunately, I have no answer. Inside, I find a home that’s unique, alive with memories and filled with the spirits of energy he made visible.
He built the doors to tell the outside world that something unique lay beyond them. He called them “portals” and wanted you to know you’re entering a new world when walking through them.
This space, separated by the portal, takes you somewhere totally different where once inside the rules outside no longer apply ... Where you could be anything, do anything, and create anything you want from within the empty space where the energy is stored.
This home is special and contains something much more precious than jewels and more valuable than gold. It’s something that you have to find, experience, and feel for yourself to understand.
Preservation
Right now, the most important thing to this project is preservation, producing providence, and the documentation of Dell’s life and process of making. Being completely transparent to the world isn’t easy for me. The collection, at this time, is at total risk of being lost. Not due to planning, organizational processes, or functional abilities.
It’s simply due to no financial backing or ability to finance the preservation of the project. I simply don’t have the money to continue the work on my own any further.
The Three chapters are three curated collections that have been made available for private offering. The sell of these collections makes the preservation possible through the financial stability created from it.
Dell consciously made the choice to never sell or discard his work within his lifetime. It's the reason the body is so unique. That being said, this is the only time an offering will be made available in this way. These will be the first recorded works to sell and only after his death. It’s literal history in the making because, through it, we’re saving something for generations to come. It gives history the opportunity to become just that…history.
Private Viewings
This is my home; I must live here with my family in attempts to protect the collection and continue its documentation. Until appropriate preservation is in place, I can only offer private viewings for very select types of people. This is to include educators, subject matter experts, public institutions, and private collectors. Right now, I’m working to preserve the collection. Once the project is funded and the planned preservation takes place, the home will be made public and viewings available for everyone to experience it.
The Journal
I can’t explain the whole story or my findings in a simple website, documentary, or book. I’ve also made the conscious choice not to have or use major social media outlets wasting my time with the use of endless algorithms and pointless content posting. Most of it now, lifeless in its creation with no real energy you can feel because it was created by a computer or machine with no soul.
The Journal is the house where the stories live. It’s where I can show you what I’ve found and tell you in my own words. Because this is an active project - in the literal making, I’m constantly discovering new and exciting things every day inside a treasure chest I call my home. The journal is how I keep a living record and give you the opportunity to discover things with me.