Wow.......this is a lot to comprehend in a first reading yet it sparked for me how creating a work of art takes on so many levels.......the conception, the thinking of how it will become which often for me happens as I'm working on it as it can and will often become something different than what I've 'planned' for it to be...i.e. how it looks as a sketch in the journal as I've visualized it, and how it's becoming it's own thing as it's being worked on. Then the fine-tuning towards the finished piece and even way after it's done.........I can look at a finished piece weeks, months, even years after it's been completed and sits in it's place and it can overwhelm me with love or an added or new meaning. And sometimes I've actually forgotten that I made a piece and it will surprise me with delight (or even dread) as in, "I made you? Amazing!!!" And like you said about whatever we're going through at any given moment, or external happenings, can affect how a piece is made, thought of, becomes. I don't know if all I rambled on here has much to do with your article, but reading your words triggered what I wrote as I thought about process and affects.
Yes, beautiful Annette. It is delightful to revisit works made long ago. They are often surprising and revealing. Sometimes gates into new possible gardens of ongoing work. Now that I am back home, I have gotten on a roll in my journal. This series of articles started with me explaining to my son-in-law last week my disagreement with neuralologists that consciousness is generated by complex systems as opposed to consciouness itself is pre-existant, independant of physical systems and is creating them as its own instruments of self discovery and what that could mean - seen that way - for artists. I was having a hard time explaining it to him in a convincing way so I have been chewing the cud on the subject.
You're theory makes a lot more sense to me that consciousness is pre-existant........It's why I interchange the words of The Universe with God, A Higher Power, Consciousness itself. And working WITH it, through it, near it as artists will intertwine our own consciousness with The Other that is already there.......to pick/use it as one would pick the best cherries off a tree to make their pie....somehow it all works together to become just right. I hope your son inlaw will read your most recent article and gain understanding of what you're trying to explain to him. Eventually he'll 'get it' if he listens, reads, seeks to learn and understand. Please keep these articles coming. I find them so fascinating and inspiring as they wake up my sometimes sleepy brain.
Wow.......this is a lot to comprehend in a first reading yet it sparked for me how creating a work of art takes on so many levels.......the conception, the thinking of how it will become which often for me happens as I'm working on it as it can and will often become something different than what I've 'planned' for it to be...i.e. how it looks as a sketch in the journal as I've visualized it, and how it's becoming it's own thing as it's being worked on. Then the fine-tuning towards the finished piece and even way after it's done.........I can look at a finished piece weeks, months, even years after it's been completed and sits in it's place and it can overwhelm me with love or an added or new meaning. And sometimes I've actually forgotten that I made a piece and it will surprise me with delight (or even dread) as in, "I made you? Amazing!!!" And like you said about whatever we're going through at any given moment, or external happenings, can affect how a piece is made, thought of, becomes. I don't know if all I rambled on here has much to do with your article, but reading your words triggered what I wrote as I thought about process and affects.
Yes, beautiful Annette. It is delightful to revisit works made long ago. They are often surprising and revealing. Sometimes gates into new possible gardens of ongoing work. Now that I am back home, I have gotten on a roll in my journal. This series of articles started with me explaining to my son-in-law last week my disagreement with neuralologists that consciousness is generated by complex systems as opposed to consciouness itself is pre-existant, independant of physical systems and is creating them as its own instruments of self discovery and what that could mean - seen that way - for artists. I was having a hard time explaining it to him in a convincing way so I have been chewing the cud on the subject.
You're theory makes a lot more sense to me that consciousness is pre-existant........It's why I interchange the words of The Universe with God, A Higher Power, Consciousness itself. And working WITH it, through it, near it as artists will intertwine our own consciousness with The Other that is already there.......to pick/use it as one would pick the best cherries off a tree to make their pie....somehow it all works together to become just right. I hope your son inlaw will read your most recent article and gain understanding of what you're trying to explain to him. Eventually he'll 'get it' if he listens, reads, seeks to learn and understand. Please keep these articles coming. I find them so fascinating and inspiring as they wake up my sometimes sleepy brain.