Still Life. Your Power To Change Things Just By Looking. Dear Friend,
Do you remember Van Gogh - the Dutch artist who cut off his left ear and then painted a portrait of himself wearing the bandage?
Well, Van Gogh London Exhibit: The Immersive Experience which is on at the moment uses tech: 360-degree camera views and virtual reality to involve the viewer in the art in a way you wouldn't get from just walking around an art gallery.
It's ironic that tech is breathing new life into how we consume art, when it was tech: the invention of photography, that killed off the kind of visual art that was being produced up until that point.
Before the camera came along, art was a faithful representation of reality (Realism). After the camera, what was the point in trying to represent something that could be better captured in a photograph?
So then along came Impressionism, which as the name suggests was a shift away from realism to put the emphasis on the impression or internal feeling generated when the artist looked at a scene. The artist was painting their experience.
Van Gogh's fame rests not on his cut ear but on taking Impressionism to the next level : Post-impressionism, which became the foundation of Modern Art , which is essentially 'Anything Goes'.
With your kundalini meditation, you're combining the camera view (your still mind) with your feelings (impressions) to look at something - a situation, a problem etc. - and change it . More below.
Also below: There's more to the food you eat than the calories. Getting more of the good stuff; also, what meditating purposefully looks like.
Best wishesP. PS. Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Mon. 19th February - Jaya Ekadashi (You win!); Sat. 24th - Full Moon (sleep early). |
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