Comments on: Getting Inspired by Removing the Obvious

By: Päivi

Päivi — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:15:01 +0000

In reply to Lynne Braga (Louisa Ellingham). Thanks so much for your interesting comment, Louisa! It's fascinating how we can look at the world!

By: Lynne Braga (Louisa Ellingham)

Lynne Braga (Louisa Ellingham) — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 07:15:56 +0000

Such interesting thoughts–I always like the way your mind and imagination integrate!
After all, we live on the Earthly plane and must contend with what we see. I don’t think it is such a stretch to accommodate the material world when we want to move toward the spiritual because, to my way of thinking, they are intimately connected. I believe I’ve written about my deep interest in mysticism on your blog previously. Here are the words of the great medieval mystic Meister Eckhart: “The visible things are out of the oneness of the divine light”, and their existence in the empirical world is due the “actualization of their ‘virtual being’”. Again physical things are, according to the great immaterial philosopher George Berekely, really ‘ideas’–we couldn’t ‘know’ them if we didn’t have an idea of them first. Berekely’s most famous theses in the history of philosophy is: “Esse is percipi”–“To be is to be perceived.” He considered this to be the first principle of human knowledge. Later, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel taught that “Absolute Spirit” is the primary structure of the universe: our thinking is the thinking of the Cosmic Spirit, who is thinking in us. So when the artist shows us his/her perception, these ideas on paper or canvas are a function of his/her mind which has its source in the living active mind of God. Perhaps if we can suspend our empirical thinking for a moment, we can admit that there is an invisible background to ‘reality’, something Quantum physics is very aware of now. We might perceive the visible world being something like the consciousness of the universe, while the hidden part is its unconscious–a very Jungian notion! It seems to me that these concepts are undeniable, even though so many in our postmodern world won’t acknowledge or accept them.
Päivi, I hope you will always continue to ‘see’ what is hidden within yourself and bring it out with joy in your work!

By: Päivi

Päivi — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:26:53 +0000

In reply to Sally. Thanks so much, Sally!

By: Päivi

Päivi — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:26:40 +0000

In reply to Cheryl. Thank you, Cheryl!!

By: Päivi

Päivi — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:25:39 +0000

In reply to Celeste Larkin -Dion. Thanks, Celeste! I usually work in 3 to 6 sittings, but work with more layers in the central parts. And yes, I love my process, it's taken some time to make it work, but I think that developing classes has helped with that! I get to watch and explain what I do in the class videos and also question what I do and when.

By: Päivi

Päivi — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:20:27 +0000

In reply to Lin Powell. Thank you, Lin!

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 15:02:20 +0000

A lovely painting and your narrative provides much wonderful food for thought; you are so deserving of the grant. Thank you for sharing your gift and insights.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:56:21 +0000

Beautiful painting, I love the colors and your thoughts. I’m so glad you got that grant.

By: Celeste Larkin -Dion

Celeste Larkin -Dion — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:36:45 +0000

So many lovely elements to investigate in your work! The spirituality comes through well. How many layers must you create to achieve this sense of mystery and wonder? You believe in your process and it has rewarded you with wonder !! Bravo !!

By: Lin Powell

Lin Powell — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:55:03 +0000

Interesting painting, interesting ideas. Makes us think.