How to Read the Artwork:
​Stare at the images as though you are gazing at a candle's flame, and relax the body consciously. By this method, the mind shifts inwardly enough (interiorizes), to perceive the multidimensional (holographic) qualities produced.  

Artist Statement & Philosophy

Updated 2/11/21
Soul-Symbols and Illumination of the Mind
When creating art, my mind surveys a blank surface, and I transcribe a series marks and lines with graphite. This is the building stage, and I have no idea what it will evolve into. This is because I have exercised my mind in such a way, that a 'spiritual-shifting' of the consciousness has occurred. I guard my willingness to be informed by what I am looking at, gently foregoing my will to create what I think, and instead, only create what I see. Overall, "I" am spritually transcribing my own spiritual soul-symbols, and through further intuitive reflection on these drawings in writing form, illumination continues.

The Mind as Home
An initial consideration in the development of intuitive-superconscious sight is found in the idea of ‘home.’ Symbolically, the home represents something different for each of us, but at its core, home is the spirit of the conscious mind toward his own life. If you were blessed with flawless parenting and angelic siblings, and were supported by a community of kind friends and relatives as you grew up, then you are unique. My guess is that life has cast some shadows of anger, fear, resentment, or self-doubt within your life, and beginning with corrective efforts within your own mind, regarding orientation to these less-than-ideal past experiences, one may remake the one home we all have in common: the mind.

The Mind Must Know Itself Spiritually, and Uses the ABC's of Spiritual Matter Methodically
I have learned that there are “levels” of ever-higher realms of perceptual insight through devotional meditation. Perception is anything you can imagine, and what I can imagine has increased in meaning, clarity, and focus. By way of the application of my will and concentrated focus upon the Spirit realized within meditation, combined with application of the ABC's of Spiritual Matter (Assignment: Build Concept), the mind expands as one's desires dictate. Specifically, my desire for a conscious change of inner-self-orientation, wherein the shift is made to superconscious awareness, is created through visualization. I begin by completing a mental body-scan to this end, tracing and filling my minds' awareness from the left foot/left side of the body upward, and then the right side of the body. This feels like zipping on an invisible suit of spiritual matter to both body and mind, and while this is happening, I keep my will transparently focused upon the Chist-Consciousness center within myself. Now, the mind is prepared to not be in two places at once, and full inner focus (one's whole 'self') is devotionally placed within the Inner Orb.

Conscious devotional acknowledgement ensues, and the decision is made Together to begin the creative work. Overall, visualization is a powerful tool that prepares the mind for use within this new placement of the whole self, and means that 'you' decide to simultaneously relax, close your eyes, and see the desired Form (which naturally includes 'you').

Observe the World Outside of the Mind as a Reflective Mechanism, and See the Symbols of the Soul
My drawings are visual experiments in which I maintain a meditative state for prolonged periods of time. As I look at the mark-making, I observe what is continuously being expressed to my mind, from a subtle energy that imbues the paper. I maintain a devotional, boundlessly fulfilled state, and I am directed to look through a specific 'lens' within the mind.

Through the Will and Concentrated Focus, Soul-Symbols are Identified by the Mind
Conceptually, the lens of one's mind is analogous to that of a camera's lens. We may select through the will and concentrated focus, the panoramic or microscopic views, with a plethora of overlays and modifications, just as a modern digiatal camera is capable of doing. But the lens of the human mind is able to see beyond the landscape of physical-matter-reality, and may also envision spiritual matter. Mechanically speaking, the mind is a 'spiritual tool', of which once awakened to the Panoramic Vision available, is quite capable of also learning how to identify (through will and concentrated focus) the symbols of his own soul.

First and Second Stages of Creative Spiritual-Sight
I have realized that in the initial stages of the process of spiritually-seeing, my mark-making creates illusions that morph into geometric visual paradoxes. For example, one group of marks and tones suggests ideas and indicates possible images developing. As I watch, it is through the dynamic of association, that lines, shapes, tones, proximities, and illusions-of-space outplay, creating a visual paradox. This seems to be a magical 'second-stage' of the process, wherein the whole image is understood through intutive, superconscious awareness. Overall, the first stage of creative spiritual-sight, is the visual awareness of the vibatory, silvery lines, and the second stage is intuitive awareness of the visual illusion/paradox.

Intuition is the Third Stage: I Watch; It Appears
By watching the vibration of the silver lines on the surface of the paper, Intuition is fully Present and accessed, and specific forms appear to the mind. These seemingly wait for transcription from the pencil lead, by a continuous visible energy outflow. Characters evolve, and build their own stories through the etched surface of the paper, with all the forms instructing as to the artist's spiritual evolution and experiences. In this way, images of my soul are accessed and transcribed.

By way of this process, I effectively eliminate expectations for performance and workmanship because using this process puts inner peace, tranquility, love, joy, and acceptance foremost into the experience: I trust that what I see cannot be wrong, flawed, or incorrect, and that every mark, erasure, emphasis of line, is the result of an energetic, intuitive connection to the Spirit of my soul. I observe what appears, an illusion evolves, a paradox occurs, and this creates a “window” for a completed drawing to be seen. I only then must transcribe it. I watch; it appears.

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