Art and the exchange of creative thoughts and ideas
Completed for no other reason than the absolute love of watching these works unfold, I give you a few more pieces that passed through me for us. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do, maybe they’ll even kick loose a few of the chains that so firmly hold us in separation! Happy new year!
Recently the Universe plucked me from my comfort zone and stripped my life down to its most austere elements. Included in the reduction is of course my Art and as such I have returned to working in the medium that first opened my mind to the creative life; good old fashioned pencil on paper drawing. It has been a wonderful and very freeing experience and these works are a result of it. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have!
Cheers,
Jarid
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Acrylic on Canvas
49″x 28″
In the beginning this work was meant to depict how an idea manifests through an artist (at least through this artist). Ultimately however, it came to represent much more than that to me, as these works often do I suppose. While usually I’m not one for describing the particulars of a work directly, in this instance I feel that it is warranted.
As the Artist sits painting its own universe, the ideas formed from the workings of the superficial mind fall by its feet (seen in broken light bulbs). When those ideas are let go of, a much stronger creative force is allowed to manifest through the Artist. This force is inexhaustible, and while most of us paint a black and white portrait of what has been or what we wish to be, it remains within each of us, waiting with eternal patience and grace for us to let go of ourselves.
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49”x 28.5”
Acrylic on Canvas
This piece became somewhat muddled as the work began to drag on, week after week, and, eventually, month after month. Nevertheless I will try to use my allotted thousand words to describe what this piece eventually came to represent (to me).
“The Death of the Jar-id” was originally about the transcendence of the unchecked wanting that eventually leads to a chronic state of dissatisfaction that seems to be a plague on modern society. Originally the id was considered to be the first form of ego, the means that an infant would use to communicate its basic needs. Here, I am using the destruction of the id as a symbol of the clarity or serenity that is achieved when we let go of the colluded and confusing time-based self. That self is equally as illusory as the reflection that appears when we look in the mirror. What seems real, what seems permanent, is really just a complicated and temporary illusion. (Such is art! Ha!)
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While executing this piece the thoughts running through my mind were simple. “Allow, let go, say yes to life and let it live you”. These words to are representative of the ceasing of a mind, followed by an allowing of life. The imagery was inspired, in part, by the Radiohead song “Codex”, a beautifully simple piece in its own right.
Hold the image in your mind of what you ate for breakfast this morning. Now try to recall any dreams that you had last night (a dream from another night will do just as well). What is the difference between the two images being projected in your mind’s eye? Isn’t it so that the present moment is the great equalizer, and that any thoughts or memories of the past only occupy the same reality as a dream?
Imagine that you are in a car sliding down an icy road. You no longer have control over the direction or speed of the vehicle. Now think about an important event that is going to take place in the future (maybe a business meeting or doctor’s appointment). Have you attached any thought as to what the outcome of the event might be? Do you feel anxiety or stress about the outcome of the event? Isn’t it so that in the space of the present moment the imagined, out of control car, and the image of the future event are equally as real, each existing only as projections or dreams of your minds eye?
“Timeless” puts forward the idea that time (Past and Future) exists only as a dream. True, Universal, and Infinite wisdom is experienced when our attention is moved from our dreams of the past and future to the only moment that ever is……this moment. The counterpillar in the back is limited to a life of suffering via its need to account for all of the limitations of its life. Upon its abandoning of its slug-like body, the cocoon of time becomes visible. Once that cocoon is recognised as an illusion, the transcendent butterfly emerges with infinite wisdom (represented by the pattern of the eyes of the wise old owl on its wings) or enlightenment (light bulb eyes).
To transcend the illusion of time is to transcend thought itself. It is true freedom.
Acrylic on Canvas
33″x 13″
“Unquantified” submits the idea that while all of the currencies of the material world (buildings, cars, works of art, even the bodies we inhabit) will crumble and fade back into the dust from which they sprang, all that we can ever experience is the present moment. When viewed as complete or whole, rather than something that needs to be completed through the collection of knick-knacks, life falls into place favorably, its light shining into, through, and out of presence. If I have an apple and I tie a string around that apple, it doesn’t somehow become more appley. It is still the same amount of apple that it was. Just as if I purchase an expensive car or home or work of art, it doesn’t enhance the inherent value of my existence. We are born complete; we die complete, and while the things of this world are beautiful, they cannot add or detract from what (or who) we really are.
Looking to the world for completion is a fools errand; Living completely or unquantifiably is to truly be alive.
Organized religion may best be described as the misconstruction of the words of the enlightened few. Humanity interprets the spiritual teachings of the enlightened through the perceived limitations of their minds. These obtuse interpretations are then filtered through a muddled maze of thoughts where they are altered to fit the motives of each interpreter. People follow to a fault the writings of other humans rather than looking in the direction that those enlightened few are pointing. If lost in the darkness of the forest and a person happens upon a compass, they don’t accept it as their savior and immediately stop searching, or, build a new compass with their own directions written on it. They use the compass to lead them into the light. The enlightened are not truth; they are the compass that points to the light of life.
“Compass” says that in order to see the beauty of life we must see beyond the layers of misdirection, beyond the false target. It says that we are at a point in our history where it is time to step out from behind the shield of religious texts, and let the light of the Universe shine through.
Hello. I present to you a piece that was created totally free from any thematic or other mind concocted constraints. Yes this piece is piece of nothing, it is free creativity. It is the Universe using me as I use the brush, as is life.
Cheers,
Jarid
As we pass through the flames of pain and it’s drawn out version called suffering, two things can happen. One (the most common effect of suffering) is that we become galvanized. Layer after layer of conditioned, painful, cyclical thought is added until the light of being is no longer exchanged between being and the universe. We become separate.
Now on the other hand, those very same flames can remove a layer of that which filters out the light, bringing oneness out of potentiality, closer and closer to reality. To suffer is to cling to pain, freedom is letting go of the attachment from which pain arises, and eventually letting go your very self.
Tran(sient)substantiation
Acrylic on Canvas
13×36″
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