This relationship is genuinely really interesting. I’ve thought a lot about what we might call “literalisation” or “concretisation” depending on what you speak of — how things which originally had a deeply spiritual meaning become concretised to fit the paradigm of our unimaginative and materialist society. The Otherworld of spirits is reduced to hallucination, and has to be recovered from the abyss by psychology in the form of the collective unconscious. Magic is reduced to mere art. And God is reduced to scripture. I’ll probably write about this myself at some point. Thanks for the inspiration.
It was delightful to read your article and think of my art is magic and myself as a magician. That approach inspires me to keep Painting. I’m sitting in my room looking at the paintings. I have done that. I love and each one either takes me somewhere and reminds me of something I thought and felt or has a secret that invites me to explore. Thinking of my art as Majik encourages me to keep painting when sometimes I’ve wondered what’s the point as my canvases pile up. But now and then someone says I love that I wanna buy it. Or I say I love that and I wanna keep it. So yes, believing in the magic of the creative voice and allowing it to flow through our souls and into the world is worthwhile. Thank you for the encouragement.
It's so wonnderful to see th explosion in the numbers of really excellent artists in the world. They are shining their light and making big changes. The upheaval is necessary as the light shines into darkness and the evil scurries away. Thank you for your courage to help us all shine.
This harkens back to an open question asked by Clintavo a year or two ago, "what's your definition of art?" Now I say that it's this sort of magic, but kicked up a notch: "Art" is making someone else's neurons fire in the same sequence as yours through only the power of suggestion (painting, dance, music, architecture, etc...) Whatever the means, the result is magic. Yep, whatever our chosen medium, we intentional artists are magic.
Enjoyed this one!! Thanks for sharing!!! I hope it becomes more accepted and takes some of the embarrassment out of talking to others about how magic is real.
This relationship is genuinely really interesting. I’ve thought a lot about what we might call “literalisation” or “concretisation” depending on what you speak of — how things which originally had a deeply spiritual meaning become concretised to fit the paradigm of our unimaginative and materialist society. The Otherworld of spirits is reduced to hallucination, and has to be recovered from the abyss by psychology in the form of the collective unconscious. Magic is reduced to mere art. And God is reduced to scripture. I’ll probably write about this myself at some point. Thanks for the inspiration.
Sola scriptura started the disenchantment of modernity.
It was delightful to read your article and think of my art is magic and myself as a magician. That approach inspires me to keep Painting. I’m sitting in my room looking at the paintings. I have done that. I love and each one either takes me somewhere and reminds me of something I thought and felt or has a secret that invites me to explore. Thinking of my art as Majik encourages me to keep painting when sometimes I’ve wondered what’s the point as my canvases pile up. But now and then someone says I love that I wanna buy it. Or I say I love that and I wanna keep it. So yes, believing in the magic of the creative voice and allowing it to flow through our souls and into the world is worthwhile. Thank you for the encouragement.
It's so wonnderful to see th explosion in the numbers of really excellent artists in the world. They are shining their light and making big changes. The upheaval is necessary as the light shines into darkness and the evil scurries away. Thank you for your courage to help us all shine.
This harkens back to an open question asked by Clintavo a year or two ago, "what's your definition of art?" Now I say that it's this sort of magic, but kicked up a notch: "Art" is making someone else's neurons fire in the same sequence as yours through only the power of suggestion (painting, dance, music, architecture, etc...) Whatever the means, the result is magic. Yep, whatever our chosen medium, we intentional artists are magic.
Enjoyed this one!! Thanks for sharing!!! I hope it becomes more accepted and takes some of the embarrassment out of talking to others about how magic is real.