[COPY] IT'S A NO BRAINER BY NOW

AT THIS POINT IN TIME THE NOTION THAT MIND ONLY EXISTS IN THE BRAIN IS PREPOSTEOUS. WITHIN THE VERY SPECIALIZED FIELD OF BRAIN SCIENCE IT HAS BEEN DISCOVERED THAT THE BRAIN CONNECTS WITH 11 DIMENSIONS IN THE THINKING PROCESS, AND IN BIOLOGY, RUPPERT SHELDRAKE MAINTAINS THAT MIND IS NOT LOCAL TO THE BRAIN BUT IT FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE BRAIN. AND AT THE FOREFRONT OF MODERN PHYSICS THERE IS NO SET BOUNDARY BETWEEN MIND OR CONSCIOUSNESS….AND MATTER. THESE ARE ONLY A FEW EXAMPLES IN THE EVER EXPANDING RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MIND AND MATTER. AND OF COURSE I HAVE TO ASK WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF MIND TO ART IN THIS BROADER CONTEXT OF MIND BEING NON-LOCAL I’LL GET TO THAT

MY POST TODAY WAS INSPIRED BY AN ARTICLE I READ FROM, QUARTZ AN ONLINE JOURNAL. IT WAS ABOUT DAN SIEGEL, A PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AT U.C.L.A. IT’S ABOUT HIS BOOK- MIND: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF BEING HUMAN. EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLE ABOUT HIM….

“ SIEGEL SAYS HE WROTE HIS BOOK NOW BECAUSE HE SEES SO MUCH MISERY IN SOCIETY AND HE BELIEVES THIS IS PARTLY SHAPED BY OUR OWN MINDS. HE TALKS OF DOING RESEARCH IN NAMIBIA, WHERE PEOPLE HE SPOKE TO ATTRIBUTED THEIR HAPINESS TO A SENSE OF BELONGING. SIEGEL WAS ASKED ON HIS RETURN WHETHER HE BELONGED IN AMERICA. HIS ANSWER- “ I THOUGHT HOW ISOLATED WE ALL ARE AND HOW DISCONNECTED WE FEEL. IN OUR MODERN SOCIETY WE HAVE THIS BELIEF THAT MIND IS BRAIN ACTIVITY AND THIS MEANS THAT THE SELF WHICH COMES FROM THE MIND IS SEPARATE AND WE DON’T REALLY BELONG. BUT WE ARE ALL PART OF EACH OTHERS LIVES. THE MIND IS NOT JUST BRAIN ACTIVITY. WHEN WE REALIZE THIS RELATIONAL PROCESS, THERE’S THIS HUGE SHIFT IN THIS SENSE OF BELONGING”

I THINK THAT DOWN DEEP HIS WORDS RESONATE WITH PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. IT COMES DOWN TO BEING CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE AND THE WORLD AROUND US IN A PROFUND WAY CREATING AS HE SAYS “A SENSE OF BELONGING”. WITH THAT COMES A PERPETUAL SENSE OF NEWNESS, NOT THE SHALLOW REPETITIOUS “NEW” FROM PRODUCTS OF ALL KINDS, BUT ONE THAT IS FROM DEEP CONNECTION. I’VE ALSO NOTICED THAT IN THIS GROWING WORLD OF ISOLATION AND DISCONNECT, THINGS THAT WERE NEVER CALLED INDUSTRIES ARE NOW CALLED JUST THAT! AN APPALING EXAMPLE IS “THE ART INDUSTRY”! I CAME ACROSS AN ARTICLE IN FORBES ENTITLED “ART INDUSTRY TRENDS AND EXPECTATIONS FOR FOR 2025”. OH THEY GO ON AND ON ABOUT THE WONDERS OF AI GENERATED ART AND NFTS AND HOW THEY WILL EXPAND TBE GROWTH OF THE ART INDUSTRY. IT MAY MAKE MORE MONEY BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WILL FILL THE WORLD WITH MORE STERILE HOLLOW IMAGES, INCREASING THE EPIDEMIC OF DISCONNECT AND ISOLATION. THAT THERE IS A WORLD OF ART COLLECTORS WHO LOVE AND BUY ART IS WONDERFUL BUT AN “ART INDUSTRY” THAT GOES TO TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE THE '“NEW” IS A TRAIN GOING NOWHERE FAST. OK…MY RANT IS OVER!

SO HOW CAN ART MAKE THE DEEP THE DEEP CONNECTIONS AND REMOVE A SENSE OF ISOLATION AS SIEGEL TALKS ABOUT? AND HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING? WHEN BRAIN AND MIND ARE TOTALLY WED THEN I THINK EVEN BIGGER CONNECTIONS CAN BE MADE TAPPING INTO WORLDS OF THE UNSEEN. MY WORK AS AN ARTIST IS MORE AND MORE ABOUT TAPPING INTO THE INFINITE RESERVOIR WHICH CONTAINS ALL POTENTIALITIES OF EXISTENCE. A PLACE WHERE MATTER AND NO MATTER MEET. THE RESULT IS ART THAT IS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. WHAT CAN EMERGE IN THE WORK TRANSCENDS THE CATEGORIES OF “OLD” AND “NEW.” SOMEONE WHO IS AT HOME WITH ART CATEGORIES MIGHT SAY, “WELL WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS NOT FINISHED ARTWORK…IT IS EXPERIMENTAL ART’”. I’LL ACCEPT THAT. PICASSO ONCE SAID THAT EVERY PAINTING HE EVER DID STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT. LOOKS LIKE IM IN SOME GOOD COMPANY. i WILL CLOSE OUT TODAYS JOURNEY WITH PICTURES OF SOME OF MY '“EXPERIMENTS”

THANKS FOR JOINING ME TODAY!

RICKY

P.S I CREATE WITH LOW TECH MATERIALS ONLY. THEY CAN TAKE YOU TO PLACES WHICH HIGH-TECH CAN’T EVEN GET CLOSE TO.