The 'spiritual' dimension which has come to seep slowly into my life as I get older, very much previously concealed I might add, is slowly but surely becoming a formidable presence in my art.
With the sudden onset of this realisation it now seems clear that the world is by no means made up merely of the empirical things which surround me. So why would I limit myself to representing the things which surround me, when there are inklings of further undiscovered realms to be explored?
There are fields and forces at play which underpin my existence which I cannot fully grasp. Intuition can then play a big part in accessing these realms.
But things which are seemingly unfathomable today (Flat Earth/ Round Earth), become less so tomorrow.
Telepathy has long been regarded as far fetched, for the likes of Dr X and other science fiction characters. Reading books thirty years ago I believed William Burroughs was merely being fantastic in his Yage expedition for telepathic drugs. But while telepathy as we have always envisaged it - mind to mind - is unlikely for the future, it is still possible to transfer thoughts between humans via binary decoding and software.
Telepathy is not 'spiritual' of course, but an example of the unknown revealing itself.
Telepathy is now the subject of intense research at universities around the world where scientists have already been able to read individual words, images, and thoughts of our brain by combining the latest scanning technology with pattern recognition software.
It often feels like I'm blindly wandering through this life I'm beginning to recognise as a 'spiritual' one. But I suppose I don't need to have 'data' to support my intuition. My art tells me to cease painting what I see, and paint a world that I can intuit. This means, to a degree at least, of letting go of the limitations of rational thinking.
I once believed paintings had to make 'sense'' such that the entirety of their existence could equally be explained in words as they could in paint. I now feel the less sense my paintings make in a rational world, exponentially the closer I get to my own Spiritual and Creative Truth.
But I accept for me this is a curious journey, and I don't understand the route. But as mentioned, perhaps 'understanding' this journey is less important than 'feeling' this journey.
Personally, I feel there is more to you and I than meets the eye... I don't know the name for it, but for want of a better expression, I call it 'spiritual'. It begins by looking within, not outside of myself. When you suddenly have this realisation that you are a formless entity, the parameters change somewhat. For when form loses its preeminent status you have to wonder on the nature of what is left!
