Carl Jung was a pioneer in the exploration
of the unconscious mind. Dreams, fantasies, myths and free
associations were some of his tools of exploration. Calming
his mind and allowing thoughts and fantasies to rise up to
consciousness were part of the process. MINDWORKS are drawing
meditations, images rising from the unconscious mind.
Others have explored similar processes: Max Ernest with collage
and frottage; Odilon Redon who could not abide a blank white
surface, made smudges and saw a butterfly wing; Dubuffet who
often began a canvas not knowing whether it would be a cow,
a table or a person; Leonardo da Vinci who urged us to look
at clouds and stains on the walls and read into them faces,
animals and battle-scenes.
MINDWORKS™ are a process of discovery, art put
to the service of self-realization for the artist as well
as the viewer.
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How to create MINDWORKS™
'Allowing' is most important. It is necessary
to have no pre-conceived ideas about what the work will be.
I start with my mind in an 'idle' state, kind of drifting,
calm and relaxed. I put down a few smudges with charcoal on
paper and ideas rising from my unconscious begin to appear.
I read into these vague marks whatever images come to mind
and then enhance them with more drawing...'drawing' them forth,
so to speak. Associations occur and it is mostly a process
of discovery and adventure. It is important not to judge too
quickly, just observe what is happening. There is no need
to control, allowing is the key. It is very exciting. I let
things happen--an advent.
I try different media: soft charcoal pencils, graphite, gouache,
colored pencils, acrylics, I try everything. Different surfaces
produce different results...stabilo pencils on frosted mylar
allow for washes and tonal effects. I feel the media, enjoy
the pull of the charcoal on the paper, the blackness and the
sensitivity of the sharp point. As thoughts come to mind I
just let them flow. Things are happening before me, I observe
them, respond and move on.
Later generations of these images are re-created and transformed
in acrylics and gouache, lithography editions and etchings.
Most recently this artwork is transformed into digital images
in the computer. Here these images are enlarged, colored,
cropped, altered and enhanced in Photoshop 7. These digital
images are then printed as RGB Lazer prints on photographic
paper or as Giclée prints using pigmented inks.
MINDWORKS™ are drawing meditations, enhanced
as digital art.
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Anvil
"But there's a shift happening in humanity,
a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to
happen now. Because if it doesn't happen now, mankind probably
won't survive. The dysfunction of the human mind and its condition
is becoming more and more intolerable to the planet, and to
humanity. People can't live with themselves much longer. The
planet cannot live with humans much longer! The dysfunction
has become so magnified through technology." - A New
Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Carousel Man
You imagine who you are. Of all imaginative
work this is the most intimateand creative. - Beauty
by John O'Donohue
Ego Chatter 3a
"... at the heart of the new consciousness
lies the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of
rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself
that is infinitely more vast than thought. You then no longer
derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the
incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciouness
you take to be yourself. What a liberation to realize that
the 'voice in my head¹ is not who I am. Who am I then?
The one who sees that. -A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Generations 2
Everyone is an artist. Each person brings sound
out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible.
- AnamCara by John O'Donohue
Gnomes Brothers
"Ego is no more than this: identification
with form, which primarily means thought forms." - A
New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Gone Fishing
Each of us is responsible for how we see, and
how we see determines what we see. - Beauty by John
O'Donohue
Thinking Will Drive You Crazy
The mind is incessantly looking not only for
food for thought; it is looking for its identity, its sense
of self. This is how the ego comes into existence and continuously
re-creates itself. - Silence Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
Trapped
I ..embodies the primordial error, a me my mine
and myself - a mis-perception of who you are, an Illusory
sense of identity...the ego. - A New Earth by Eckhart
Tolle
Umbrella Friends
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing
in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.
- Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
What I Think Others Think
Truth has an elegance that startles the heart
to its own reawakening. - Conversations With God by
Neale Donald Walsch
Anvil 
Ego Chatter 3a
Gnomes Brothers
Thinking Will Drive You Crazy
Umbrella Friends