A PATH EMERGING.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 00:36 AM, Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com> wrote:

A PATH EMERGING.
 

Nocturnal doodling with pencil and paper. Envisioned an opening into a timeless realm. A long straight path between marker stones. Waves of ochre blond grass. A STRAIGHT PATH to ancient oak woods. A shower passes in autumn light.

From the original drawing only 7”x 5” small. Enlarged and transferred to canvas, only 10”x 14” small. Brought to life as a place to enter into imaginatively.

Photos show stages of the process but not the process itself. If it showed that, you'd see me gazing for hours over a cup of tea and that wouldn't be so exciting for you as it is for me.

Any more than you can observe grass imperceptibly growing but only notice stages of it. This glimpse occurred over a period of five days or so.

Once again, it's not 'just a painting'. Or even merely that concept 'a landscape.'

It's a playful but disciplined manifestation of imagination actualized. An artistic exploration.

Forget styles, eras, schools and movements, it's not in 'the art world', it's outside, seen from within. An inside out process.

Simply A STRAIGHT PATH to who knows where or when. A path emerging in consciousness, and no one knows where that is either. It's everywhere.

Perhaps the world is not so much a place, as a state of awareness, which is what's termed 'non local.' Art is a way of being present imaginatively, and imagination is a priceless human attribute. So this is not 'a commercial artifact,' just the fact of art.

Many people do themselves a disservice when they claim to have no imagination. How could they imagine such a thing? I bet their dreams are equally outrageously creative. It's not as if they were created by somebody else.

This is 'nature' outside the current age. Who in their natural state of being would wish to be defined by the current context of 'historical time', or any time at all?

This is the natural world in its timeless state, which is where it always is anyway.

As we also are, without the superimposition of temporal concepts of perception.

This understanding filters through the essence of each and every brush mark. It's not just that there are no signs or even a sign of telegraph poles or other infrastructure. It's that the organic flow pervading nature is not deviated from as the creative source.

If nature has an ancient look about it, it's because it 'is' ancient, sublimely so, and so is the soul and the human forms it takes on. A fact that so called 'normal perception' typically ignores.

The 'age' we are said to live in is just an optical illusion. So, to impose an arbitrary date or an era on the scene is to miss the mark entirely and not see it at all. It could just as easily be in the megalithic period. Nothing has changed but our perception of what is.

Painting is a way of saying it without words. Which, while they may describe, or even evoke, (if you speak the language), don't depict or demonstrate.

Whereas, imagination flows freely into paint substance and illuminates the land in breeze blown relief. The pictographic language of 'the way of the brush' inscribes the illuminated hieroglyphs of re-enchantment.~

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rainbowmaker~

Art: A Straight Path, martin law, Oct 2013