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This week's administrator: ~turance

To truly see an image, one must be naked. In other words, we must be vulnerable to the artwork. We let go of expectations and judgments, and look with a fresh innocence and readiness. Our experience becomes not just an interpretation, but actually becomes what we see. We are the colors and the contours, the symbols and light. The image becomes our temporary vessel, a new body in which to exist. This experience of being what we see could be called the aesthetic experience. We let go of everything we think we are, and become suspended as a different form experiencing the world afresh.

This aesthetic experience opens a dialogue between the image and the body we normally experience. I, for one, have found it difficult not to constantly anthropomorphize the forms of abstract paintings. When, for example, viewing the shapes in Kandinsky's late work (1930s and on), my mind pulls out all kinds of faces and body parts from his abstractions. I find that deeply, I want to see forms that are familiar to me. My mind selects and highlights dispersed forms and unifies them into human parts facing in all directions and angles. Yet as this happens, a deeper sense feels these aren't quite right; they aren't quite accurate; there is something more elusive yet clear that is beyond this physical human body that resonates from the paintings.

I find that it takes a clarity and readiness to sift through and drop these mental projections and start to tap into the heart of the image, to really view it standing naked. No doubt, there is meaning and significance to our quick and free associations, yet there is something deeper and more immediate, more evasive to language to which I am pointing. It is like becoming what we see, feeling and thinking deeply on its own terms, and then we come back to our familiar experiential body and notice what has changed.

namaste



Are you Visionary?
Visionary art is created by those with the electrifying compulsion to channel wisdom and light into our shadowed reality. The Visionary artist is humble and receptive to a kosmic life force, and undertakes the discipline necessary to bring it into manifestation. He sees beyond normal reality with clarity: not just symbols, but the meanings behind them. Through a process of self-discovery and transformation, the Visionary artist awakens to the mysteries of reality, and compassionately desires to shock others into these same realizations.

The Goal
Visionary artists undertake the joyous responsibility of shaping the future of our world. Here on deviantART, we participate in a global community of artists where we channel so much energy with our work. While we may work in solitude, we can dedicate our efforts to our families, coworkers, friends, enemies, and fellow humans everywhere on the planet. We are here to help shape the mythologies and worldviews of our collective future, and are devoted to offering captivating Visions of not only what the world is, but what it can become.

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