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. Drop the fear. Silence the mind. Feel the love. This is surrender. Just let go.
When we not looking outside, but search within.
then the stillness will appear…trust and be in the now, this is being closer to the temple of god.
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.
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
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 out. It is due to the decision of implementing the element of now(presence) as one of the factor in its equation. Art of stillness, presents itself as it is, unlike any that present itself before. A fresh new one, just as living is only in this exact point. It is only NOW. The past and the future is only illusion.
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 object of attention.(Jhana(as in Pali) also known of Dhyana(as in Sanskrit)).
Each image on their own nature, hold their own truth. Each piece that starts off is unique - reside within is a potential to be realise. The potential is infinite but once you pick up or identified with it all the infinite will emerge into one.
By letting go through an art process of simplification - digital image processing; one process followed by another only limited by the artist(emotion) and his tools(the way). The process follows an intuitive systems of phasing and executions; therefore enabled the artist to be locked into a cycles of unconditional actions.
