Tuesday, December 18, 2012

I Create, Therefore I Am


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  2. More Agnes Martin.

    If you are interested. Here is a link to her book Writings. It’s a challenging read because she is relating to difficult concepts from an artist's stance as well as someone deeply spiritual; ultimately investigating ideas that are impossible to articulate. I’m still trying to grok it.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/36073257/Agnes-Martin-Writings



    
It
 is 
hard 
to realize 
at
 the time
of
 helplessness 
that
 that
i s 
the time
to 
be 
awake
and aware.
The
feeling
 of
calamity 
and 
loss covers everything.
We 
imagine
 that 
we are completely cut off 
and 
tremble 
with
 fear
 and
dread.
The more 
we are aware 
of 
perfection the more we will suffer when we are blind to it in helplessness .

    But helplessness when fear and dread have 
run 
their course, as all passions do, 
is
 the
 most 
rewarding state
of
all.
It 
is
 a time when
 our
 most 
tenacious prejudices are overcome.
 Our
most tightly gripped resistances come under the knife 
and 
we are made more free.
Our 
lack
 of 
independence 
in
 helplessness
 is
 our 
most detrimental weakness from the
 standpoint
 of art
work. Stated positively, independence 
is 
the 
most 
essential character
trait
 in an artist.

    Although helplessness is the 
most important
 state
 of
 mind the holiday state 
of
 mind is the 
most 
efficacious for artists: "Free
 and
 easy wandering"
it 
is called by the Chinese sage 
Chuang
Tzu. In free 
and 
easy wandering there 
is 
only freshness and adventure.
It 
is
 really awareness
 of
 perfection within the mind. Everyone has memories
 of 
adventures within the mind, strange and pleasant memories,
but
 not 
everyone i s
aware 
of
adventures within the mind when they happen.

    I 
want 
to recommend the exploration 
of
mind 
and
the adventures within in the mind. It takes so much time,
that 
is 
the difficulty. It is so 
hard
 to slow
 down 
to 
the pace where 
it 
is
 possible 
to 
explore one's mind. And then
 of
 course one 
must 
go absolutely alone with not one thought about others intruding because then one would be off in relative thinking.

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