Local image #103
2024, Acrylic on board, 30x30cm
11 March 2024
We are autonomous beings. We have free will. Yet, as Kant and Freud recognised, much of our actions are determined unconsciously, making it seem that there is little free will. Before we meet God, we are the enemy’s clumsy puppets, who has no ethical hangup manipulating us while simultaneously letting as think that we are making our own choices. Thus, we are embedded, unconsciously, in a life of slavery. And we want to be free.
Meeting God is the beginning of our emancipation from a being that is manipulative, deceptive, and vengeful. But it is only the beginning of our journey. Our time as puppets in the enemies army has left us aesthetically retarded. We cannot know God completely, and more significantly to us now, we do not know him as well we can. For we are able to know him much much better than we do now.
I contend that developing our aesthetic is an essential way of getting to know God better. And this places art and artists in important roles to help us achieve this. But what is our aesthetic and this process of developing it? What is our current condition and how will developing our aesthetic help to become free of our enemy? Well ...
It is at this point that it becomes necessary to say many things at the same time in order to be fully convincing, but alas, we are placed in time and space, and a consciousness with a small window of focus. Thus I am limited in this paper to present ideas one at a time as best I can, and ask the reader to be patient, to read and consider all the ideas presented, and then walk with them for a while, before bringing the ego to the point satisfaction and giving it its desired closure in the form of a judgment in confirmation or denial.
I am not presenting a complete system, merely enough, I hope, to convince you of my contention, and setting turf enriched enough for more of your own personal growth to occur. Because I don’t simply want to know, I want to care!
15 March 2024
Submarine, with a silent nuclear powered drive, like in the Hunt for Red October. Ahova. Love. A broad love. Different kinds of love within this love. This flower seems more part of what surrounds it. It does not look like a sticker. Powered with a silent love drive. An invisible, untouchable drive. A circle within a square. I must pass through this wall of fire to burn away my sin. And then drink from the river Lethe to forget my sin. Am i painting my future? Powered by fear until i can be powered by love. What is happening in the space between me an this work is love. It is helping me to know what love is. It is helping me to know God better. I think we will be returning to the water soon. My mind probes the future searching for possibilities. Searching for leaps of faith. Making my way back home. Gaps in the veil through which i might see.
16 March 2024
Matter spoken into existence formless and void. Differentiation. Things turning something into themselves. Growing out of whatever surrounds them. Filtering. Transforming. Intertwining. Pearls, this flower makes pearls.
We are autonomous beings. We have free will. Yet, as Kant and Freud recognised, much of our actions are determined unconsciously, making it seem that there is little free will. Before we meet God, we are the enemy’s clumsy puppets, who has no ethical hangup manipulating us while simultaneously letting as think that we are making our own choices. Thus, we are embedded, unconsciously, in a life of slavery. And we want to be free.
Meeting God is the beginning of our emancipation from a being that is manipulative, deceptive, and vengeful. But it is only the beginning of our journey. Our time as puppets in the enemies army has left us aesthetically retarded. We cannot know God completely, and more significantly to us now, we do not know him as well we can. For we are able to know him much much better than we do now.
I contend that developing our aesthetic is an essential way of getting to know God better. And this places art and artists in important roles to help us achieve this. But what is our aesthetic and this process of developing it? What is our current condition and how will developing our aesthetic help to become free of our enemy? Well ...
It is at this point that it becomes necessary to say many things at the same time in order to be fully convincing, but alas, we are placed in time and space, and a consciousness with a small window of focus. Thus I am limited in this paper to present ideas one at a time as best I can, and ask the reader to be patient, to read and consider all the ideas presented, and then walk with them for a while, before bringing the ego to the point satisfaction and giving it its desired closure in the form of a judgment in confirmation or denial.
I am not presenting a complete system, merely enough, I hope, to convince you of my contention, and setting turf enriched enough for more of your own personal growth to occur. Because I don’t simply want to know, I want to care!
15 March 2024
Submarine, with a silent nuclear powered drive, like in the Hunt for Red October. Ahova. Love. A broad love. Different kinds of love within this love. This flower seems more part of what surrounds it. It does not look like a sticker. Powered with a silent love drive. An invisible, untouchable drive. A circle within a square. I must pass through this wall of fire to burn away my sin. And then drink from the river Lethe to forget my sin. Am i painting my future? Powered by fear until i can be powered by love. What is happening in the space between me an this work is love. It is helping me to know what love is. It is helping me to know God better. I think we will be returning to the water soon. My mind probes the future searching for possibilities. Searching for leaps of faith. Making my way back home. Gaps in the veil through which i might see.
16 March 2024
Matter spoken into existence formless and void. Differentiation. Things turning something into themselves. Growing out of whatever surrounds them. Filtering. Transforming. Intertwining. Pearls, this flower makes pearls.