Thursday, March 5, 2015

MEDITATION:AGITATION

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Agitation

The origin of thought and the inception of the idea……where does it come from? What lies behind the intuitive process of creating art, music, literature and architecture?  

The physical and the innate are all that we know. The physical is the external, the innate the internal. Physical is of the natural world as we know it and the innate is of the mind.

The idea, and thought itself resides only in the innate. There is no physicality to thought. Yet, thought is what gives us physicality. If not for thought, there is no physical reality. There is no universe, no alphabet or language, no mathematics, science or rules of physics.  

Without the physical, the innate cannot exist. There is no vessel to sustain thought; there are no senses to witness and record the physical.  

Two interlocked realms of existence and reality, and we occupy both.

The physical accesses the innate through meditation. That process is automatic or natural, as well as deliberate and intentional. The requirement of thought and idea only occurs when complex physical action requires “output” from the innate. In order to tell a story, compose a musical arrangement; design a building, the physical taps into the innate strata of the mind and its organic, undefined infinite pool of possibilities.  Complex problems and goals require deeper and deeper exploration. Physical experience (memories, learned relationships, awareness of what is known) decrease as the depth of meditation increases. This is the realm of creation, of what doesn’t exist, and all things are possible. This limitless expanse, void of the physical, is the truly innate that contains the sparks of (origin)ality. That originality, the birth of the unique, occurs when the innate informs the physical.  Pure meditation, void of all that is external, all that has been learned, is the true locus, the point of origin, of the idea.  
The innate accesses and ultimately transforms the physical through agitation. A musical note transferred through a piano key (a product of some degree of meditation), is introduced into what is physical, and agitates the physical nature of what exists. The innate thought, has been realized. The mere observation and introduction of that note is an agitation (disruption) of reality, altering its course. The physical state will never be the same once that note has been played and heard. It existed in the physical world, even if for the briefest instant, caused a change and (agitated) the physical state. This is a single musical note heard by one. A musical composition changes the physical state a thousand fold upon a single performance of the piece. The physical act of performing, witnessing and recording of that composition becomes an event that occurs and is grounded in the physical reality.

 Consider then the value and the impact of the original and the unique which has been created through meditation, forever transforming the physical reality of our existence. Original Art, literature and music that has been derived of the mind, with no external predjuices, influence or learned behavior, are true manifestations of the innate, and their introduction into the physical reality agitates (transforms, disrupts, excites) the very fabric of that reality.

What if......Moby Dick had never been written?
What if.....the Hagia Sophia had never been created? 

What if.....the composition of rythms, notes, relationships and contrasts of Ludwig van Bethoven's meditation of the 5th symphony had never agitated our physical reality? A loss....that we would not be aware of. 

Embrace the original, the unique, and the innate. 



 





RBP
3/5/15

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Thought as Entity-The black and whites


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The idea, quite simply was to get off the computer and draw. Draw by intuition and feel rather than calculated decisions filtered through a keyboard and mouse. Record that intuition-the impulsive moment of the mark.  It occurred to me that through the physical act of recording the intuitive drawing process, that what is being recorded is essentially- thought, and the actual process of thought as it occurs. I began to wonder-Can thought be entity?
Thought is a force. No different than gravity or electromagnetism. Elusive in nature, thought has had more impact on man- made reality than all other forces combined. Without thought, it wouldn't matter if the world was flat or round and the idea that the earth revolves and orbits the sun wouldn't exist. Fire would remain a natural occurrence, and nothing more. The need to capture the essence of the world within which we exist with primitive pigments on the surfaces of caves would not exist. Without thought, humans, in our current identity, would not exist and the likelihood that humans, in any form, would survive the violence of evolutionary development is quite small.
 
Not only is thought a force, but it is creationary force in its purest, un-distilled form. Without thought, there is a void from which nothing is created. Without thought, all that exists exists outside the vacuum.

 Thought is different from all the other known forces in that it is of the mind, not of the earth, or the universe in all its physicality. As such, it transcends all the other known forces as it has no limits, is boundless in its potential and possibility. Being of the mind, thought is of the past, present and future. It is of the moment, -the impulse -as well as the infinite and deliberate. Thought is not only force but resource as well-a resource of the known and unknown, the intentional and unintentional, the one and the infinite. As a resource, thought becomes entity.

Thought as entity-can it be captured, recorded? More specifically, can the innate thought (of the mind, only of the mind, free from dilution by the process of making, and the history of making) be recorded?
 
The process through which the innate thought (entity) is discovered is by necessity, impulsive, immediate and intuitive. Anything else requires deliberation and is a product of refined intent-filtered by past experience, familiarity and prejudice. As such.....

The process becomes the thought, the thought becomes the entity (Process=thought=entity).

Initial purpose and intent must be absent in order for the (innate) thought as entity to occur. All marks recorded otherwise are filtered and diluted by user interface-interference.
The intent, the purpose, -the identity-is a product of the process which is...

 Intuition, rather than reason....

 Reactive rather than proactive....

 Exploratory rather than guided...

Impulsive rather than pre-meditated.


The result.... the outcome of the process is unknown, free from intent, an intrinsic product of the process-created by the process-unique in its conception, development, evolution and maturity.

Thought as Entity.


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 The Black and Whites were an effort to strip away all the noise, an almost meditative approach to the act of recording the mark. The identity, (the thought) evolves through the the grace of the sweeping line, the taper and thickness of the of the mark, and the contrast of black against white. The unmarked (the space between the notes if you will) is as important as the marked (the notes themselves). 
A few of the pieces, despite the category, do in fact contain a splash of color, and "noise" is evidident in a few as well. These might be considered hybrids-different capture methods in the search for thought as entity. I've included them in this post as I see them as different accents of the same language. Also, to deny them the color and noise that the process seemed to call for, was akin to interference with their evolution, and a guidance of their identity. Each thought has its own personality, its own identity. Who am I to interfere with its creation? 




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1/30/15
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