ISOM SYMBOLIC ART

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Ingredients of the physical world

The five mahābhūtas are the ingredients of the physical world. They represent the final point of manifestation, where light (Prakāśa) is condensed into matter, yet, at the same time, the mahābhūtas remain identical with Śiva.

Voyage over the abyss

“rare for the rare”

Ink drawing 11”X14”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Teaching

“the endless immensity of the sea”

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Scala naturae - structure of matter and life.

The great chain of being (Latin: scala naturae, literally "ladder/stair-way of nature"), is a concept derived from Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus; further developed during the Middle Ages, it reached full expression in early modern Neoplatonism. It details a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by God. The chain starts from God and progresses downward to angels, demons (fallen/renegade angels), stars, moon, kings, princes, nobles, men, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and other minerals.

Monday, February 21, 2022

Emergence from the quantum world

Quantum Darwinism is a theory explaining the emergence of the classical world from the quantum world as due to a process of Darwinian natural selection; where the many possible quantum states are selected against in favor of a stable pointer state. It is proposed by Wojciech Zurek and a group of collaborators including Ollivier, Poulin, Paz and Blume-Kohout. The development of the theory is due to the integration of a number of Zurek’s research topics pursued over the course of twenty-five years including: pointer states, einselection and decoherence.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Darwinism

Sympathy with the seasons

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) - The Journals of Bronson Alcott, January, p. 187, Little Brown & Co., Boston MA, 1938.

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Why Do Abstract Artists Paint or draw Abstractly?

The paradoxical question…Can an abstract artist actually create a pictorial painting?

We’ve all heard the criticisms: “People paint abstracts because they can’t draw,” and “My four year old could have done that.” I have fielded that questions many times over the last sixty years, my explanation always seems to generate more questions. I often resorted to cryptic answers in order to end the circular argument. My favorite response is “art is and I am”. Art is defined as: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting, drawing or sculpture.” Art is not limited to a particular style or subject matter..Most individuals cannot deal with such a broad statement and they do not see art as a process but as a product. In a process oriented activity we use materials and our own thinking and problem solving skills to create something that is uniquely ours . What we are learning while doing is more important than what it looks like at the end.

Like the history of art, the process of art is linear. As our knowledge and technology grow our perception of the world changes. Artists explore new ways of seeing and explaining the ever changing environment. In my own work, I explore the world using symbols.It is study of the heart,soul and mind, creating esoteric connections to the universe. Without symbols our lives would be as spiritually impoverished as sleep without dreams. Our waking life is full of symbolism operating on an unconscious level. A symbol is a sign which opens up or makes transparent insights and truths that were previously hidden.

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

• The Symbolic Life (1953); also in Man and His Symbols (1964)

Isom 2.0 new media art.

Isom 2.0 new media art:

I will post more explanatory information as I develop Isom 2.0. My plan is not to abandon traditional visual art forms, tools and methods for creating art work. (i.e.painting sculpture, drawing , etc.) However, I will gradually replace the traditional method but I will continue with my purpose of integrating mind, hand an internet. It is in some ways it is a natural progression for me. As I age, traditional methods require more physical labor. The scanner, printer, computer and simple marking and cutting tools require very little studio space but provide a universe of options for creating art. My friends and followers who like my more decorative and traditional methods of art, may find it challenging to understand some of my new work.

Evolve grow think.

Evolve grow think

“cultural transmission”

Digital photograph

Cultural diversity inevitably develops in the course of cultural transmission. Individuals are constantly misremembering and thus varying some piece of culture, as well as making more deliberate variations. Learners will often put their own personal twist on what they have been taught. Once such a new “cultural variant” exists, there will be a tendency for it to be preserved.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Island of consciousness.

Island of consciousness

"dreams and fantasies”

“At the very apex of the psyche is the ego, which is at the center of consciousness. Jung likes to think of consciousness as an island, and surrounding this island is a very large ocean that represents the unconscious. Stretching away from this island toward the deep is a shadow land Jung calls the personal unconscious. It belongs to the individual and holds countless forgotten experiences; it is formed from impulses, wishes, and subliminal perceptions. Memories can be recalled from this area either through dreams, fantasies, chance associations, or even direct recall.” http://www.soultrek.com/12%20psych%20jung.html

Free passage for the soul

“a place of transition “

11”X14”photograph

In The Book of Symbols, the door is described as a place of transition. In ancient Egyptian tombs, doorways were built to allow free passage for the soul. In ancient Roman cities, the deity Janus protected doorways into the city. The door also protects a house from the elements and whatever else is outside. In the Christian tradition, people often hang crosses over the doorway to keep out evil spirits. In some Eastern traditions, it is recommended to keep a Buddha statue facing the door, so when people enter he is the first thing they see.

(Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. The book of Symbols. Germany, 2010.)