When I visited John Hoyland’s studio with a group of painters I could sense that both his living space and his large painting studio was filled with energy and happenings. He was good enough to show us all his paintings reciting the title with each one. I remember one in particular called, ‘Mind Horizons’. It went all the way up to the ceiling and covered the breath of his large studio. He pulled it out of storage and stood it on a couple of small plastic containers to keep it off the ground. It had his trademark central circular ‘pourings’ and around it his worked surface. I thought this one really fitted the title. Because I did ask Mr. Hoyland how did he come up with his titles: he said he wrote them down in a book as they came up, like a Poet would when a ‘spark’ entered his mind. Mind Horizon is influenced by the time he has recently spent in the tropics. ‘The intensity of nature is exhilarating and spectacularly beautiful’ (RA website 2010). It was an abstract painting that was almost representational in its composition. It had a soft center with soft edges radiating energy to the edges. The mind-heart thinking of the artist, soft at the edges and one with all he sees and paints. Not rigid like the architect, the graphic designer, the accountant, the banker but soft like Kandinsky’s Shaman who sees all. Yesterday’s Kandinsky’s Shaman has today become the Quantum Activist.

This brings me to the Artist as the Quantum Activist and his studio, his work place, a mini universe, where the edges of his mind dissolves into the horizon, to articulate what he ‘sees’ on his canvas. He has always worked with the

Tenets of Quantum Activism: (Amit Goswami, Ph.D – quantum physicist)

Non-Locality: We are all interconnected – even without signals, and experimental evidence is proving our inherent unity.

Tangled Hierarchy: In our brain we become one with the neuronal images of an external object because of a tangled hierarchy, a circularity. The observer is the observed.

Discontinuity: The discovery of something new of value in thought is a quantum leap of Aha! insight.

The Artist, his studio and his work: where the Truth naturally shows itself

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