Art from our members - inspired by idealism
Poetry, painting, video and improvisation
Last week I invited members who have created work inspired by themes from our meetings to share. Two artists were included in the message sent last week and I am delighted to share 6 more below, including:
- Martin Steuck
- Jed Moffitt
- Joanna E. Kabala
- Jasper van Aarle
- Misty Nahuel
- Edie Pijpers
- Carrie Teutenberg
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, and I look forward to talking about this subject with you and Bernardo later today!
Martin Steuck
Below you will find a couple of examples of drawings that I did using a new technique that I intuited or that came to me last year at a similar time that I become interested in and started to follow Bernardo's work more closely.
One doesn’t need to know how to draw at all to work in this way and the results are very beautiful and possibly powerful, transformative.
It consists of three rules: (one can create ones owns rules, but I'd limit it to 3)
Mine are: Lines, dots, space
You relax your arm and allow it to become a seismograph, allowing the body to respond and time into to the undercurrent rhythmic flows that govern us deep down, then automatically move across the page, filling the page in a “random” automatic combination of these three rules, lines, dots, spaces,
Making sure that none of the lines touch each other.
Ones attention is in service to the present moment by quietly observing the marks one after another in their automatic unfoldment and distribution across the page.
I feel it fits in somehow with how Bernardo talks about free will and determinism.
The result is something you could never have planned for or anticipated,
A devotional automatic improvisation in the sense that one is willing to participate in this practice towards the unknown, in service of excavating some personal/ impersonal information that you could not think your way towards. However the result is a fully determined full page of marks, code, information with every aspect of the piece connected to every other aspect via and through the space that remains an unbroken whole.
Doing this practice over several months resulted in outer body experiences, and pre-cognitive dreams, it also opened up to me flashes and glimpses of other realm's where at times I was in direct relation to the realm of the faye. Even speaking about this is difficult because I feel I want to share this Techne with you and Bernardo but also want to pay utmost respect to the beings from the realms that I travelled to or that travelled to me through doing this practice.
Martin also makes music improvisations attempting to relay images and moods of the “unspeakable” “unknowable” spaces encountered, linked above.
Edie Pijpers
This was completely inspired by a conversation Bernardo had with Tim from voicecraft. The painting I made was actually made live while listening to the convo. And then I continued to make a video from it:
Jed Moffitt
I am a poet on Substack in a small but fairly vibrant community of poets.
I find that much of my work lately is heavily influenced by Idealism. The concepts seem to act like a natural leavening to the Muse. From an artistic and philosophical perspective, it reflects well on the spirit of Analytic Idealism that it provides ground so fertile to imagination and creative expression.
I will share a poem here from last March that will have elements familiar to all of us in this community. In this case, I was triggered by particular classic phrase from Bernardo and the rest of the piece just fell out on the page.
All credit is due to Bernardo as you will find that this one was pretty much simply a magnetic poetry exercise of simply aesthetically arranging his inspired ideas and words. The poem was well received by my poetry community.
Apples
We didn't parachute in here
On some vendetta,
Like commandos in an
Aerial assault.
Or with a sightseeing agenda
Like tourists on a bus.
What makes us think this life
Is all about us?
We grow here,
Like apples on a tree.
We have neither the
Ability, nor
Responsibility
To make ourselves happy.
Why do we believe
We warrant
Preferential treatment, and a
Soft landing?
Instead,
We are bred to be the leading edge
Of God's search for self knowledge
And moral understanding.
We don't hold the power
To live or die.
God makes the apples,
Leaving it to us
To make war…
Or pie.
“Everything is in God’s hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of ‘all is His’, and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own, your Self.” -Sri Anandamayi Ma
Joanna E. Kabala
Currently, I'm busy in the generative art domain, specifically since Generative AI art tools are broadly accessible. I'm making short animations.
Considering art as an expression of human consciousness, I believe that all my recent works are inspired by Analytic Idealism. I recognize it as a reliable framework that helps clearly differentiate between humans and AI, making it easier to define what constitutes an artwork and what is merely an AI rendering. And this is, of course, a hot topic in the arts.
"Love Victory, or the square root of one percent" is a short animation consisting of Generative AI imagery based on a digital hand drawing by Joanna E. Kabala, Eindhoven 2024.
Jasper van Aarle
Attached you’ll find some photos of a recent panel that brings together a selection of ‘Aantekeningen’ (or, Annotations on excitation); collected from various notebooks I've been carrying over the past year. By arranging them in relation to each other’s appearance I aimed to create an emergent form of drawing. A larger field, or pattern-like structure that arises collectively from the lines on the separate pages.
Misty Nahuel
I’m not a professional artist (my regular job is at the Swedish Space Agency) but my heart project is sharing Mindfulness and Mindful Art, non-profit.
Carrie Teutenberg
Just a little background on my art - I paint with both my hands on large canvases, kinda of like a way to integrate all of me, both sides of my brain and body. Its all intuitive and I try to let the unconscious speak through me
Today we meet to discuss how idealism relates to creativity, expression and art. You can find all the details here!
Amir Giles