#openenergypainting

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“The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals. Character makes an overpowering present; a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company, by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of. Character dulls the impression of particular events. ... The great man or woman is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him or her without much impression. ... True conquest is the causing of calamity to fade and disappear, as an early could of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing,” Emerson from the essay Circles. Oil on paper, sometimes the land looks like the sea. Sometimes we are over and sometimes we are under, but we move and we advance and we learn. #openenergypainting #alchemy #abstractart #artandlivingenergy https://www.instagram.com/p/BqnZsh6DDQZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3asjr2qt6uy3

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“Dahlmann accepted the walk as a small adventure. The sun had sunk below the horizon now, but one final splendor brought a glory to the living yet silent plains before they were blotted out by night. Less to keep from tiring himself than to make those things last, Dahlmann walked slowly, inhaling with grave happiness for the smell of clover,” Borges from The South. #artandlivingenergy is like that smell of clover, it’s different and in the senses, not in the linear mind. This was near a butterfly haven, I didn’t understand why they were collected there but painting doesn’t need to know why. #excerpt of studio work. #abstractart #openenergypainting #contemporaryart. #divinegrace. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqIqACrBqLk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e7zhxn0taejr

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“Time past and time future/ Allow but a little consciousness./ But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,/ The moment in the arbor where the rain beat,/ The moment in the drafty church at smokefall/ Be remembered; involved with past and future./ Only through time time is conquered,” TS Eliot in the Four Quartets. The #present, I remember him for years about the #stillpoint - I think about that all of the time. In #openenergypainting it isn’t theoretical, it’s more energetic because I don’t know what it will be. #artandlivingenergy , signs come in, the shapes have a spirit author with me. Oh the goodness of spontaneous life. #montenegro studio work, an excerpt, #podgorica has a #jadecoloredriver. #lovewhoyoulove it’s the best human activity, it’s beyond the pale. #abstractart #contemporaryart #vulnerability I think more vulnerable when going by other people’s ideas, we are here in our lives afterall. #grace https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp5NlC6huBf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cs5fbkkrc29n

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“there outside in the open air in the theater of eyes when you shut it you open them there is no outside nor inside in the forest of prohibitions the marvelous sings grab it it’s within reach of your hand it is the moment when wo|man is the accomplice of lightening Crystallization the vision of desire the desire for vision not here not there but in-between here/there”, Octavio Paz. #artandlivingenergy is connecting outside of linear thought, that’s the #neurovision, we don’t know until we encounter, thank God for that extra part of being human, and it’s #openenergypainting. Some of us make it, and thank God for those who see it with us. Raw energy map from #Sonoma. #Grape colors decided they wanted to be on the work. #lovewhoyoulove , when you can it’s all new. And it can be every single day. #grace #abstractart #contemporaryart #artist and don’t forget #vulnerability , that is how the grace enters. #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo . Thank you poet Paz. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp2AN6Rjz1b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i1owwzsfseoa

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Excerpt of early work, “Bats and Crowns”, it is from painting in Upstate #newyork. “Love is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter. / Old wo|men ought to be explorers/ Here and there does not matter/ We must be still and still moving/ Into another intensity/ For a further union, a deeper communion/ Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,/ The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters/ Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning,” from TS Eliot, the Four Quartets. #artandlivingenergy It’s reading energy, it’s #openenergypainting . #insideandoutsideart #abstractart #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo #contemporaryart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1pevFDSV_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yee4f3ko9m3h

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“24. Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. 25. When the light chariots come out first and take up a position on the wings, it is a sign that the enemy is coming forth for battle,” The Art of War, Sun Tzu. Studio art excerpt from #Oslo work, so beautiful there. Winds and ways, #charm is usually a signal to be careful, and it seems like the entire concept of #narcissism is written long ago, I think that is the wrong word for it. It’s right there in the Art of War #openenergypainting , #lovewhoyoulove , it’s not a status or label , it’s the #heart that #listensandreceives #graceoverthoughtsandmentalprocessing. #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo #abstractart #contemporaryart #artandlivingenergy https://www.instagram.com/p/BomMwuiD5ac/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n0u9bfuqmkz

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“There were marks of generalized primitiveness in that low, pinched brain case and grinning jaw that marked it as laying far back along those converging roads where, as I shall have to establish elsewhere, cat and human and weasel must leap into a single shape,” Eiseley. #greentwilight. At a point I couldn’t tell if they were underwater or on land. Sometimes I can’t tell which side is up. #abstractart #lookingatenergy #contemporaryart #onlocation. #primitiveness #wingsofdesire #convergingroads #independentart #followingthreads #marinadaglória #riodejaneiro #openenergypainting https://www.instagram.com/p/B0DokpuHKD_/?igshid=zepl6p17qcij

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“You know too little and it doesn’t exist. You know too much and it doesn’t exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is all about. (Different than reporting, as Mary Oliver aptly said.) Not what happens there, but the *there* itself. *There*, that is writing’s location and aim. But how to get there?” Karl Ove Knausgaard, Book I, My Struggle. Early work, #LikeaPromise , #optimism, finding the #there , but it takes a long time to get the visual or written voice. It is between what is, and what’s told to us, and what is told to us is ongoing information that is besides there, too. #artandlivingenergy #openenergypainting #theunknown is #wheretheadventureis #abstractartchangesyourbrain , #looking or #making , #essenceoflife. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8pcWYjsDU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sb887delv2xs

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“You say you are acting in the interest of the other. Is that so? I follow the leader who hopes to revolutionize society, inwardly and outwardly, and I follow him|her and obey. I commit myself to a course of action which both the leader and I have agreed as necessary. Is there a relationship between me and the leader who is working for the same end? What does relationship mean? To be in contact with, to be in close proximity? ... An idea, a formula, a goal, a principle, a utopia we both agree upon, but is there a relationship? ... It is really an enormous problem. ... Look, am I related when I look at that tree? Relationship is a distance between me as the observer and that tree. ... When I am married and I have built an image of my spouse, and my spouse has built an image of me, the image is the factor of distance,” Krishnamurti. This is an excerpt from a #buenosaires work, Mirror Mirror, it’s fascinating how images of self to the self have become lodged into our #technocracy, this #metaphor made itself, and to me a #dressingtablemirror, but everything is lifting off, #amalgam is also the word for what is sprayed on the back of glass to make a mirror, it’s #alchemy again. #artandlivingenergy Images have power but what are they really doing in how we #lovewhowelove, including our own #divineanduniqueselves. #abstractart #contemporaryart #openenergypainting #insideandoutsideart https://www.instagram.com/p/BoeVGGTjl2_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r1goplf9a0go

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“You say you are acting in the interest of the other. Is that so? I follow the leader who hopes to revolutionize society, inwardly and outwardly, and I follow him|her and obey. I commit myself to a course of action which both the leader and I have agreed as necessary. Is there a relationship between me and the leader who is working for the same end? What does relationship mean? To be in contact with, to be in close proximity? ... An idea, a formula, a goal, a principle, a utopia we both agree upon, but is there a relationship? ... It is really an enormous problem. ... Look, am I related when I look at that tree? Relationship is a distance between me as the observer and that tree. ... When I am married and I have built an image of my spouse, and my spouse has built an image of me, the image is the factor of distance,” Krishnamurti. This is an excerpt from a #buenosaires work, Mirror Mirror, it’s fascinating how images of self to the self have become lodged into our #technocracy, this #metaphor made itself, and to me a #dressingtablemirror, but everything is lifting off, #amalgam is also the word for what is sprayed on the back of glass to make a mirror, it’s #alchemy again. #artandlivingenergy Images have power but what are they really doing in how we #lovewhowelove, including our own #divineanduniqueselves. #abstractart #contemporaryart #openenergypainting #insideandoutsideart https://www.instagram.com/p/BoeVGGTjl2_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17qfcbigy7qgo

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“The poet pours out verses in every solitude. Most of the things she says are conventional (are they?), no doubt, (are they?), but by and by she says something that is original and beautiful. That charms her,” from essay The Poet. But isn’t humor like that? Humor is like nature in action, because it needs things to bounce off of, and it needs observation. Many times people serve things up that aren’t expected and then there is something to respond to. That is like painting from seeing, the image can form any way it wants to but so nice to see the trace of energy that comes in-between the soul and hand and object. #abstractlandscape , #contemporaryart #openenergypainting #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo https://www.instagram.com/p/BqvKPUOjXOu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z2eacubwpvtf

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“Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow, when we are building up our being. In lower states, — of acts of routine and sense, — we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal movements of the soul, s|he hideth; they are incalculable,” Emerson from Circles. Lots of my #abstractlandscape work has a division in the center, most of my art speaks to #rising and #overcoming. I believe that we don’t know what makes what, even Herman Hesse said that in #siddartha . Stay the course. The picture of our #energylives is #evolving, and #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo , #evenaquartzstoneisunexplainablyalive. #gracetoyouonyourpath #artandlivingenergy #abstractart #openenergypainting https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqp7IGSDmHo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=atsw33zqgcrv

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“Thought is the response of memory, of determined conclusions, conscious or unconscious; this memory dictates action according to pleasure and pain. So ideas control action, and hence there is conflict between action and idea. ... As long as action is approximating to an idea, conflict is inevitable. Only when action is free from idea does conflict cease,” Krishnamurti. So that is the energy painting thesis, out of ideas and into energy. Watercolor on paper, always the path and the rising. #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo #abstractart #openenergypainting #alchemy #contemporaryart https://www.instagram.com/p/BqdPmgljMPk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jj80d846s0m8

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“The tenderness of Cendrars exuded from all pores. He does not spare his characters; neither does he revile or castigate them. His harshest words, let me say parenthetically, are usually reserved for the poets and artists he considers spurious. Aside from these diatribes, you will rarely find him passing judgement upon others. What you do find is that in laying bare the weaknesses or faults of his subjects he is unmasking, or endeavoring to unmask, their essential heroic nature. All the diverse figures — human, all too human — which crowd his books are glorified in their basic, intrinsic being,” Henry Miller from The Books in my Life. He said some wrong things and he said some right things that are nice to read. I read him before the journey of serious painting, but some of the raw reliefs did something. Everything must be possible but we don’t know what it is. #artandlivingenergy #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo #abstractart #openenergypainting #contemporaryart We need grace sometimes when we don’t expect to need it. Excerpt from Tuscany studio painting. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqNxqdODs2Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2f419aq8l0hm

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“One may beget power through simplicity of life, through virtue, through the party, through renunciation; but such means are a mere substitution and they should not deceive one. The desire for position, prestige and power — the power that is gained through aggression and humility, through asceticism and knowledge, through exploitation and self-denial — is subtly persuasive and almost instinctive,” again Krishnamurti. #vulnerability is different than power, there is just no other way to think of it. And perhaps the people that seek #power are the most averse to it. But #openenergypainting lets the combination of #experience with #artmaterials and how the #soulispresent , have a pathway. We don’t know the answers, but we #lovewhowelove , and we are #alchemists. #grace #rightbrainhemisphere #abstractart #contemporaryart Work on #archespaper, oil, from the rest of the paint you can scratch out work, made in #brazil. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpe4Cl_DcP4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=axldjak37veu

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“But I want to have the freedom to say unconnected things as a deep way of touching you. Only the erring attracts me, I love the sin, the flower of the sin. .... And I want disarticulation, only then am I in the world. Only then do I feel right,” Clarice Lispector, Água Viva, translated by Stefan Tobler. Oh the non-linear mind has a different way to love. And that is the unexpected, it’s the #offscript way, how #surprises work, like #openenergypainting , and afterall, #energyalwaysknowsmorethanwedo . From the #mystery and the #alchemy. #abstractart #contemporaryart https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXOBXXDRG_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12uiaml1kfve4