the lastest body of work is out live in the world and ready for eyes!

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Process and Inspirations

Latest group of works below.

This project is a collaborative piece. Cheris Took the photos of the tree and its reflection. I blew up the photo and made a transfer of it. The crop "circle" design is an edited version of a design I found online. I loved it immediately and combined the two elements in this piece. The first thing noticed from my critique of this piece (thank you Jon) is a question: "Why is the reflection of the tree clearer than the actual tree?" - Why is the subconscious "below" image clearer than the conscious "above" image? WHY IS THE REFLECTION CLEARER? (this can be seen better in the actual piece as opposed to the photograph)

I've found in life, the purpose of events often seem clearer after the fact. Also, the same can be true about our dreams. Dreams seem fluffy and unclear, however, one may come to discover later that their past dreams were trying to communicate something important to them...

As an exercise in documentation, 

I have also included some of the process of the finishing portion of a few paintings.

Framing Process

The Artist Station

Thought clouds that threaten the creative flow

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_uZX6Wclzw

(a song I found congruent as I created this)

Gnothi Seuton = Know Thyself

Process of painting _____________blank (i don't know what to call it)

Mathmatical description of INVOLUTION

Involute

Attach a string to a point on a curve. Extend the string so that it is tangent to the curve at the point of attachment. Then wind the string up, keeping it always taut. The locus of points traced out by the end of the string is called the involute of the original curve, and the original curve is called the evolute of its involute. This process is illustrated above for a circle.

Although a curve has a unique evolute, it has infinitely many involutes corresponding to different choices of initial point. An involute can also be thought of as any curve orthogonal to all the tangents to a given curve.

Meaning of INVOLUTION - long version (Thanks Wikipedia)

The term involution refers to different things depending on the writer. In some instances it refers to a process that occurs prior to evolution and gives rise to the cosmos, in others an aspect of evolution, and still others a process that follows the completion of evolution in the human form.

In Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism, involution and evolution are part of a complex sequence of cosmic cycles, called Round. When the universe attains a stage of sufficient density, the individual spirit is able to descend and participate in the evolution. Involution thus refers to the incarnation of spirit in an already established matter, the necessary prerequiste of evolution:

As an example, the so-called descent of the Monad into matter means an involution or involving or infolding of spiritual potencies into material vehicles which coincidentally and contemporaneously, through the compelling urge of the infolding energies, unfold their own latent capacities, unwrap them, roll them forth; and this is the evolution of matter. – Gottfried de Purucker ^[1]

That period of time devoted to the attainment of self-consciousness and the building of the vehicles through which the spirit in man manifests, is called involution. Its purpose is to slowly carry life lower and deeper into denser and denser matter for the building of forms, till the nadir of materiality is reached. From that point, life begins to ascend into higher Worlds. This succeeding period of existence, during which the individual human being develops self-consciousness into divine omniscience, is called "spiritual evolution."

In the cosmology of Surat Shabda Yoga, involution and evolution apply to both the macrocosm, the whole of creation, and the microcosm, the constitution of an individual soul.

For Sri Aurobindo, involution is the process by which the Omnipresent Reality, i.e. the Absolute, Brahman extends Itself to create a universe of separate forms from out of Its own Force/Energy.

Sat, Chit-Tapas, and Delight/Ananda are the three aspects of Satchitananda, and are mentioned in terms of Involution . Spirit or consciousness manifests as these three, and then as the intermediate link of Supermind, which is transitional between the higher and lower (matter, life, and mind) nature.^[2]

The reason for involution is Delight - the Delight of Being (the Spirit or Absolute) moving to Delight of Becoming (temporal existence, the cosmos). Being throws itself forward into a multiplicity of forms, becoming lost in the inconscience of matter,^[3] and then through evolution it partakes in the Delight of rediscovering the Spirit which had been hidden in the interim.

Evolution is thus the movement forward by which the created universe evolves from its initial state of inconscience (i.e. as matter), evolves animated life forms and mental beings (i.e. humans), and continues to evolve spiritual properties, and in that process rediscovers its Source. Such an Evolution of animated forms is only possible because at each stage of development, the developing entity contains within itself the conception of what it may become. Thus, the evolution of animated life out of matter supposes a previous involution of that animated capacity. This is akin to a seed that already has the essence of the tree that will emerge from it.

Each plane emerges from an earlier plane through the evolutionary process, which takes place in chronological time. But in a parallel construction, each of these new planes can be understood as being a descendent of its corresponding higher order plane from the Infinite. Thus, when mentality emerged in the universe, the universal plane of Mind was implanted to a degree in those beings harboring that mentality.

The evolution is the development of all entities in the cosmos, including humans, in order to attain their fulfillment, including the discovery of spiritual Delight, which was, and always is, the experience of the Source Creator. The evolution is the progressive development from the original inconscience of matter into life (movement, sensation, desire, etc. and living physical beings), and from thence to mind (in conscious animals and most especially humans - the self-conscious thinking animal), and from thence to spiritualized mind, culminating in the The Supermind or Truth Consciousness (as supramental individuals, and finally the supramental, i.e. a divine life on earth.)

whoa.

Who wants to see more of these dandy circle paintings?

Some New small paintings for fun

they are ready to receive their next layer

Crop Circle Diddy And Fractal Unite

its finished!

Fractal takes Crop Circle diddy out on their second date

Things are beginning to take some shape in the relationship. Over time, and with diligence, the dynamic should come to a pleasing balance. Some aspects are intrusively dominating the the whole. Fractal needs some power. To much diddy is taking over. Stay tuned for date number three....

Recent bodies

So, these are all inspired by Crop Circles found in various places on our very own planet. I took each design and added a touch of evolution by merging something "unknown" with elements of our own realm of "known".

Sacred geometry can be found in just about everything in the natural world. Mandalas, Celtic knots, labyrinths and crop circles have been illustrated by various religions, theologists and mystics as a visual way of understanding the spiritual and physical realms of and beyond this world, for centuries. Crop circles have received a lot of attention by researchers, scientists and enthusiasts whom have been curious as to their purpose. Crop circles and Mandalas alike have similar elements displaying sacred geometry. The commonality between them, sacred geometry and its connection to healing, is the precise conceptual theme of the work I create. Mandalas and crop circles have been said to visually and often times, physically invoke a state of mediation. Mediation has been studied and proven to be an excellent tool for stress relief and healing.

Who wants to FEEL GREAT? I think we ALL do...Duh

For an added tid-bit of ( funky lingo) information regarding crop circles as a visual vibration as well as a healing tool, Please take a look at this link http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/articles/sound.html

Its fasinating!