artofstillness

Embrace meditation: art process

Embrace meditation as part of art process.
Instead of trying to establish form and giving it character, instead of wanting to take control.
Go into the artwork itself, Surrender to it, let yourself being possess by the painting. no need to understand it, just dance with it, sing with it.
Dissolve your ego…. Don’t try to be religious. [...]

Art Session July2008

start. a photograph of my room curtain. nothing special.

little adjustment. give it some texture.

invert the color.

simplification process.

simplification with color adjustment. save to archive.

recall “own” memory and a color adjustment. session to be continued.

The Dhammapada

All experience is preceded by mind,
Led by mind,
Made by mind.
Speak or act with a corrupted mind,
And suffering follows
As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.
All experience is preceded by mind,
Led by mind,
Made by mind.
Speak or act with a peaceful mind,
And happiness follows
Like a never-departing shadow.
The Dhammapada, translated by Gil Fronsdal, August 2005

Bringing mindfulness into the painting

Being in stillness, being in presence.
Bringing mindfulness into the painting. Each moment is unique as in meditation each breath is difference.
Each of art of stillness process is unique. Nothing can be repeated. It will never be the same as it was, even by implementing the same exact procedure. It always something new that will turn [...]

Jhana

The process of art creation follow a similar path of spiritual life through renounciation,a process of letting go, not through attaining or acquiring. To be in jhana is by a process of religuishment. Jhana is a meditative state of profound stillness and concentration in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen [...]