Serenity

The quest for intuition and its sublime power is as timeless as the question: ‘Is it or is it not my intuition?’

This is the fundamental question involving action or restraint; if ego drives either, then results are self-conscious and open to distress; if awareness is the arbiter and driving force, then the intuitive results are grounded in reality. Intuition follows universal laws of enlightenment, which includes do no harm.

Intuition has no connection to petty desires, revenge, or stupidity. Once you know the score and own it, the sense of intuition develops a clear path to your awareness. The rest is up to you.

Since my art flows from intuition, it has no ulterior motive, other than the need to be born.

Iron Will

It’s come up repeatedly, most especially from the public. How do I look at art?

Art can be intimidating for those who have always relied on someone else’s opinion to make sense of the artwork. How do you know it’s art? The answer is that you must have an unwavering dedication and passion to find out. When you do, fine art appreciation is the reward.

Meanwhile, some suggestions for viewing art:

1) Don’t think and don’t have opinions immediately. Feel the work without words. You are after a transcendental experience, not a lecture about details.

2) Don’t start looking for things and naming them, as if this was a contest like Where’s Waldo. This is the analytical brain at work, which interferes with the aesthetic, art experience.

3) If you see it, it’s there. For example, in modern abstract art, it’s what you see is what you get. Nothing more or less. If you don’t see it, it’s not there. Your view is as valid as anyone else’s.

4) No one knows more about the art that you are viewing than you—not the museum director, curator, gallery owner, or even the artist. This is an awareness that you must own. At least, you now know where the art truth is coming from so you won’t be distracted by nonsense.

Put these observations to work the next time you are called—and prove them to your own self.