Recently i heard a conversation that went like this: “If i wanted to see a painting i would go to the Tate” and the reply was,” but there is nothing new there.” I think there is some truth in this. You keep going back and you see the same paintings over and over again and you come back with the past in your mind and nothing new. Museums around the world plan years ahead to rotate exhibitions of the established artists and you come away from seeing the same things. You can understand why they do this to maintain upkeep with no risks. Established notions are safer to deal with.
The new is happening now. It is present in the artist studios that are scattered around London, the country(UK) and the world. This is where the artists who spend their time looking and doing work from the past for the future. Be the, ‘worse you can be’ or be the best that you can be, and in between and you will find something that did not exists before in a museum – and if there is ‘no good and no bad’ all that you see, will make a difference to the new you (are you).
I saw the Woody Allen Documentary just recently: the best parts in the documentary were the beginning and ending: At the beginning it said something like: when he is planning a movie the mind can make wonderful successful images in his mind and create the excitement of making the movie. But when it comes to the practical implications of making the movie he realises what trouble he is in: as the translation from the illusion to the object is an agonising reminder of what he had got himself into because he sees that the pragmatic translation is impossible to meet the illusion. The painter will find this in every painting when he tries to capture that illusion. At the end of the Woddy Allen documentary, after he had documented all the movies he made etc etc, he says, ‘after all these successes i still feel that there is something unsatisfactory in me’, or something like that. Purpose? His friends would tell him it is about making the best jokes etc. But why do it in the first place, looking for something that you will probably never find.
So this thing came to me one day. We came out of the water, swung from tree to tree for a while, fell a couple of times and decided to stay on the ground as it saved one climbing back up the tree again. And we are here right now and built a structure called society around us to live in: and we are still looking for purpose. What i am saying is this: that from the very beginning the natural purpose was to recreate the universe around us as we evolved through those billions of years. As it is above so it is below: when the sages came up with this they meant it literally. It was all done unknowingly. It just naturally came about. And there was no other way it could have turned out. The master in this process is the universe. The template lies within its greater structure. There is no quantum leap for the new. And even if it shows itself we will not recognise it because we are still waiting for the same bus to come along every morning – the evolutionary process is slow – you don’t see anything new coming along with it. It happens in tiny bits of changes. (Stay with me please it will come through in the end.)
So is it possible that we are living in a real enclosed loop and space such that all we are doing is creating replicas of our natural self. What i mean is this: the ‘us’ as human beings are just replicating our natural selves both seen and unseen, especially the unseen into the physical world, so we can see ourselves as we are in total. There is an uncanny resemblance, in total, between the ‘us’ as a population, together with Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field and the higgs field and how we feed of it and the physical world of technology and the Internet. Both worlds run in parallel, but what is more interesting is that we created or discovered that not because we saw a good thing coming but because we live in a loop and that is all we can do. We are not capable of seeing anything new that is outside of this loop. We are just manifesting ourselves into the physical world of technology like an artist tries to manifest an illusion of the mind into a painting. Look at the facts: Arts: what have they done up to now: from realism to abstraction (1920) to cubism(the being as ether capturing his many facets) to ‘life and death’ with Damien Hirst etc etc. The process is not so obvious in the arts, but to technologically manifest a physical world that is like the human psyche and then to live in it: we are living in our own minds masquerading as the physical world environment. The net today with all its viruses and Trolls and hackers is just a reflection of what any of our minds are like. Know thy self and you will know the physical world around you. Or yeah we are also inventing the Robot that can be like us, blink like us, talk like us, the mini to the whole. As is the artist studio a mini universe and an environment for observation. Or just simply making the best painting you can do as it is for what others wanted Woody Allen to do: just making the best jokes: because that is all it can do by living in the loop and replicating itself in a world that goes from smaller to bigger and order to disorder. Nothing exists outside of this. The ‘new’ to us will always be a pattern of the whole and its past. We unknowingly manifest our being into the physical world and into the new technological world of today that we then live in. We all play our part in building the structure and perhaps if we can ‘see’ the space we live in we can also see ourselves.