I have nothing left to tell you. Maybe I have too much to say, but it's only the stuff that makes my heart feel alive that I want to create, and how does one represent that. How do you not get stuck in fear before you try deliver abstract into form, feelings into a physical manifestation?
Sometimes I have nothing to say. Because I think too darn much.
Thinking is like that, it is sort of magical for a short while because there is so much to contemplate and understand, but it always comes back round, to thoughts. It is a dangerous circuit. It feeds out itself. There is only so far it can go.
In our collective tutorial Ben Fitton said something that I may have interpreted differently than he intended for it to be understood, but nonetheless stuck with me.
Art is never the amount of intellect pumped into it.
ART needs to come from the infinite.
it needs to come from somewhere else. A gap in the regular. If you know where it is coming from it's just another means of communication (that has already been spoken). Art is from another realm. something that hasn't been said before.
I relate to the concept of silencing the mind and finding something real, higher. This relates to a book I have been reading "The power of now", where Eckhart Tolle says "Be aware of the gaps. To listen to the silence... Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds." (pg.85) He doesn't speak too highly of art, "Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions. The reason is that people who create these things cannot - even for a moment- free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arise." (pg.81) I would highly disagree with painting most artists with one brush, especially when it is such a subjective field. Artists often create because they feel, because they are open to something. Especially within the fields of abstract expressionists which was to be open to the silent unconsciousness and give that a voice whilst silencing the conscious mind process. I find there to be beauty in Philosophical and contemplative artworks too. I can't judge their process, and how the inspiration came to the artist. Yet I do find that to find the expression of fresh creative energy, it takes a bit of a mental break.
There is also something else said, "There is no such thing as a part time artist." To have nothing to say is a myth. It is also within the regular and mundane that we exist. It is also there that we find ourselves. To not create isn't an option. Create and within that you will find yourself.
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