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Psychology was the door that introduced me to spirituality. But art was the key to open that door, taking me on my spiritual path. Needless to say, art plays a central role in my life. Like breath, it becomes a life force that sustains a deeper part of me. I cannot imagine my world devoid of some kind of artistic expression, because that’s somewhat equivalent to losing sanity in an already disillusioned holographic world. And now that I have grasped the concept that spirituality is the basis of my artistic expressions, it has built an ascending stairs towards what I coin as ‘deeper art’ – that kind of creative/artistic work that seems to have a life of its own, that when you are done with it, you are surprised at how it turned out. Read the rest of this entry »

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What is art?

From Dictionary.com, the first two definitions are:
1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

No.1 is talks about the experience, the creative process of producing art. The ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ of art.

No.2 definies it as the product itself: the ‘whats’, ‘whos’ and ‘whens’.

While I intellectually agree with the definitions, both seemed to be an understanding of art through the conditioned mind. Read the rest of this entry »

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