Some thoughts on Art making:
The focus and intensity and love that is the energy you can use to paint will determine the spirit, state, source energy, awe, mystery, magic and beauty of the artwork. The sustained, carried through, intense energy will determine the real value of that piece of art. Sometimes we are in that state more purely than others and this will show. Just being a manipulator of form, line, shape or concept will not count as much in the end. The artwork created in the source energy, the 6th sense, a higher state will inhabit and inform that artwork. It will embed itself into the paint, the brushwork, the line.... This state informs the artwork more than the concept, or cleverness or mind. This is why it matters less what the form of art is. If it lacks state, source vibration, soul, it doesn't matter what performance, concept, landscape abstraction exists. It will not "work" unless it has source energy.
The key to art is to be novel, but not the novelty of only mind and idea. The source vibration that the artist inhabits will create a world, if the artist allows the depth. The difficulty is to allow and dip deep into the well. This has been sorely discouraged in our society so it is far from easy. Too often schools teach finding before feeling. It is much easier to teach the mechanics of writing than to bring forth the kernel of one's fire. Usually mechanics take precedent over discovery. But this kind of learning corrupts the ability to feel honestly and deeply. It encourages idea and product before the well is filled.
The focus and intensity and love that is the energy you can use to paint will determine the spirit, state, source energy, awe, mystery, magic and beauty of the artwork. The sustained, carried through, intense energy will determine the real value of that piece of art. Sometimes we are in that state more purely than others and this will show. Just being a manipulator of form, line, shape or concept will not count as much in the end. The artwork created in the source energy, the 6th sense, a higher state will inhabit and inform that artwork. It will embed itself into the paint, the brushwork, the line.... This state informs the artwork more than the concept, or cleverness or mind. This is why it matters less what the form of art is. If it lacks state, source vibration, soul, it doesn't matter what performance, concept, landscape abstraction exists. It will not "work" unless it has source energy.
The key to art is to be novel, but not the novelty of only mind and idea. The source vibration that the artist inhabits will create a world, if the artist allows the depth. The difficulty is to allow and dip deep into the well. This has been sorely discouraged in our society so it is far from easy. Too often schools teach finding before feeling. It is much easier to teach the mechanics of writing than to bring forth the kernel of one's fire. Usually mechanics take precedent over discovery. But this kind of learning corrupts the ability to feel honestly and deeply. It encourages idea and product before the well is filled.
