A comment by JOHN LENNON lead me on a journey to create art in an entirely new way.steemCreated with Sketch.

in #art6 years ago

Knowers, known and the process of knowing  

                    

Over a lifetime in being involved with creating art I have developed many styles. At university one of my teachers said: “But which style is Artur?” 
It seems my entire artistic life has been to do with inventing visual languages but without having any idea of what I wanted to say. This meant that I have become skillful but not fulfilled. 

It came to a point where "painting" was not satisfying me  and I was contemplating giving it up.
Life is short and if I was not getting joy from creating art then what was the point? 

The journey began with an illness

                 

After a year of recovering from a painful illness, I stopped painting for three years. In that time I thought long and hard on; Was there meaning to existence? And; What was it I believed?
Only after knowing that could it be possible to have something to say and then find a way of conveying that through a visual form of communication. Art.

                             

                           

               

Simulation Theory and Emergence Theory captured my attention and made sense to me immediately. I listened to over 300 Near Death Experiences (NDE) found them very moving and insightful. The latest discoveries on “consciousness”  also appear to give credence to consciousness continuing on after brain death.

ART - WHAT FOR?

Finally, I  arrived at a question: Why create art at all? 

I looked at the motivations of why artists create art and I came up with FOUR: 

1) EXPRESSION - expressionism etc  - a form of self-therapy. Should an artist expect others to be interested in their therapy never mind buy it? 

2) MONEY - a way of making a living. cThis means you are basically creating a product in order to sell. You are a business person not an artist. And anyway, there are better ways of making money. Banking, Stocks/shares

3) FAME - I want to be the next Picasso! I want to have my work in art museums around the world!
This means you are motivated by ego, and you have a need to be praised or adored. 

4) SPIRITUAL PURSUITS - this could also be classed as a form of self-therapy but it is not quite the same. Needing therapy suggests a form of illness (depression for example) and clearly, it is not correct to say that everyone who is looking to advance their soul is mentally ill - (although some atheists suggest that)

None of these reasons alone were enough to "motivate" me to create art. 

So I began writing instead.

Suddenly entire stories began forming my head of which appeared to come from nowhere. It was as though they were being “downloaded” into my brain from somewhere else.
Was it from within myself or from outside of myself? 

I remembered an interview with John Lennon in which he told of a dramatic episode of being in a storm in a sailboat. While he battled to keep the boat upright entire songs began entering into his mind. John later said he: “was tuned-in to the cosmos.” All these songs later became the “Double Fantasy” album released in 1980. 

I discovered that this phenomenon of - fully formed writings, songs, symphonies, and even operas - has been spoken about for centuries by writers, musicians composers and so on. Even scientists have talked about such experiences. Nicola Tesla, for example, told of seeing a full functioning electric dynamo right before his eyes. 

Where does this knowledge come from?

 Is it entirely from within or is there something happening like John Lennon suggested; a connection is being made with the cosmos?

If so then it suggests that the cosmos/universe is somehow conscious?
Meaning it can think, is self-aware. 

This brought me full circle to Emergence theory, Simulation theory and the holographic universe. 

I arrived at a station along the journey of meaning and the station master explained to me that; the universe itself is NOT conscious, human-beings are NOT conscious, there is only; “consciousness.”  

Nothing exists unless there is a conscious entity to witness existence.
This proves that “consciousness” is a fundamental part of reality.
“Consciousness” witnesses existence as well as itself.
Just as our consciousness makes us "self-aware" that we exist.
Thus we are witness to our own existence as well as the universe.

This is the most beautiful realization of my entire life.

Everything that exists, including "us" is simply part of this “unified field of consciousness.”  Entities, such as human-beings, are playing a certain role in the whole scheme of things, in that
we are the knowers, the known, in a constant process of knowing. 

John Lennon was right, “we” are constantly interacting with the “unified consciousness” all the time. 

As with all interactions the flow of information must be both ways. When two people talk together we call it a conversation. Thus when John Lennon wrote those songs it was an interaction between his “entity” role (meaning the sum of his entire life experiences, including his ability to write music) and the “unified field of consciousness.”  The songs were a kind of record (in sound form) of that particular interaction.

This is the bases of how I now create art. 

They are NOT abstract images. 

They are a visual record of my own personal entity interactions with the “unified field of consciousness”.
The flow of information meets in the middle somewhere and forms shapes colors and irregular patterns. 

The easiest way to view them are like visual letters or prayers. I do not know what they mean but I know they have meaning because "we" are the knowers, the known, in a constant process of knowing and thus everything we do adds to the knowing.

Here is the first of which I have no idea what to call.

The search for meaning is not a destination but a journey that has no end. But along the way, there are breathtaking views. Artur Adamson.


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Always enjoy your thoughts and art. Funny how it takes major life events to make people think about life itself many times. Some will never get the chance to pounder life until it's to late, others even when the opportunity presents itself don't bother to see what is in front of them. Honestly think our lives are filled with so much noise these days that it's hard to allow ourselves to think of a bigger picture or to notice what is really all around us.

Indeed my friend. I often say how life moves at such a fast pace these days. I blame or attribute it to the ever increasing speed of technology, computers in particular. The faster they become the more we cant keep up with them. However, in one way I think it is good to be busy in life for at least ten you have purpose and meaning. Without that you are simply existing. May as well be a stone. So perhaps being busy is not such a bad thing lol
Always good to hear from you @thedarkhorse

It seems like pursuing the answers of existantual problems leads a new way of considerationof life. I like your approach and combining with art. And dear @arthuradamson ; I ll resteem your unique content to be known.

I did not, nor expect people to read it or even agree with it. But that does not matter. I posted it as a recorded blog for my own personal history of the journey. If others get something from it then that is great.

We all have our own personal journey through life but without having or understanding "meaning" or "purpose" to one's life there is no point to living. At least that was the point I came to.
Since I discovered this fundamental truth that we are all part of this universal field of consciousness it has completely transformed my life to one of inner contentment. Something I never expected to experience in my life. I have never been more motivated to create and never had so much joy in the act of creating.
In the end, that is all that counts. Verification, validation or adoration from others is meaningless if you yourself are not happy. Thus the search for inner contentment should be our biggest motivation in life.
For me, understanding what "consciousness" really is and what that means was the breakthrough I needed. If one was religious, one could say that we are all part of the mind of God. But as we know scientists hate using that word God, but essentially that is what they (physicists) are saying the latest discoveries are pointing to. That there really is an intelligence in and behind all creation.
Einstein put it simply: "There are actually two universes. One is governed by fear and the other is governed by love. Whichever you believe in is the one you will live in."
This is so profound for it answers everything we need to know to be happy during our time on this earth.
Hey thanks for that positive response @octobre, much appreciated my good fellow : )

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