Art as Self Inquiry
What is art for? Art is for exploring
what it means to be human.
As an artist, one has two choices
before them: one can explore one's own trip, ideas, message,
politics, insights, agenda, etc. People who view the subjective
artifact can either find it beautiful or ugly, agree or disagree with
it based on their own subjective identification.
OR.........
The other choice: an artist can choose
to be a guide into transcendent sensations. This involves making a
deep inquiry into something larger, more eternal, than themselves (
like love or the color red, etc) , and holding this inquiry in the
body, heart and mind until direct perception and relationship changes
themselves, the artist, and out of this embodied direct experience comes a
gesture, which produces an artifact. The artifact, when completed by
the viewer taking it in and receiving it as an impression,
communicates the state of the artist throughout the inquiry. It is
an objective communication.
Art experienced directly this way is an
act of revelation for the artist and often also, the viewer who
completes the movement from above by viewing the artifact and finding themselves being
transported into the state of the artist during the act of revelation
.
Working this way is not easy or always possible these
days, especially to an artist living off of their art. Some of the
greatest artists of our times are completely hidden and unknown gems
because they stay out of the gallery system entirely. The realities of the
gallery system and marketing create conditions that are mutually
exclusive with the conditions required to work in the objective way.
Today's artist often does marketable projects and works with
commercial aims until the resources are available to work objectively
for their own fulfillment and growth.
Here at the Foxboro Visionary and Objective Arts Collective we are getting prepared to host a series of collage workshops that are being called; Introduction to Objective Art and Working Objectively- Collage as Self Inquiry.
Open to all, no experience required. 15$, materials provided. If you are in the Kingston Belleville, Foxboro vicinity email fnordj@gmail.com for details.
These workshops are based on an approach to collage invented by D. Harris, artist in residence at the Foundation for the Study of Objective Art.
Here is a link to some of her works;
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