At the ‘Invisible: Art about the Unseen’, 1957 – 2012 exhibition at The Hayward Gallery there was this empty room with the title for the exhibit of ‘More Silent Than Ever’ (2006). You see a label saying that in the room was a hidden listening device. You looked around and there was nothing in the room. You are thinking now where is the listening device. Initially the curiosity is very physical, bodily knowing, factual in nature: i want to know where it is? Then i am told: it could be anywhere or maybe not there at all. Now it is different: now the mind shifts a couple of gears. It starts to get sinister. The mind goes from where is it to maybe it is not here at all and now i have to worry about it. The mind broadens in its outlook: from curiosity, safe to danger. I wanted to say something so that it might get recorded, mischievous, being silly, a lie maybe about someone, gossip that is not true etc. But did not. But if you are looking about how the viewer views art, how his mind approaches the work, there are similarities to how the mind broadens out when he is curious about the presence of the listening device. There is a sense of not knowing and perpetual wondering that never ends. An Artwork is like that room with the listening device. That exhibit is about the mind rather than the listening device or the empty room. It is about how the mind looks and its process and then you think: it is like the work of art itself as it came from the meandering mind. So room with listening device, like the mind, like the work of Art: all is one and not separate. Like, “The observer is the observed”, (Jiddu Krishnamurti-JK). You ARE what you observe. They are not separate. We tend to stand back and look out and think we are separate from what we see, JK, explains. That is that I observe, and I am me. That is there and I am here but it is all one: the observer and the observed is actually physically one that is the seen and the unseen part of matter.
Now with the discovery of the higgs particle today, a new understanding might be possible. One of its functions of the Higgs field may be like the morphic field put forward by Rupert Sheldrake. A virtual storage space in the ether. Is it possible the Higgs field is the morphic field. You cannot see it but it is there. The ‘Invisible exhibition at the Hayward had an exhibit to show you what you cannot see using sensors placed on your head. It was called, ‘Invisible Labyrinth (2005). It was a ‘maze’ of infra red rays that built up the unseen ‘maze’ and you had to walk around it with a sensor on your head. When the sensor hits an invisible ‘wall’ it vibrates. You get to sense something there but you cannot see it. Like the Higgs field. But the mystic sitting in silence would have known this before the higgs particle was confirmed to exists because he would not have needed the sensor on his head to tell him an infra red wall was in front of him. He had his whole body as sensor connected to the Higgs field to tell him it was there. Before you raise your finger in protest remember this: you did not know the Higgs particle existed or not, until the scientist told you today. (4th july 2012).
So how far has the Human form come as of today: First the big bang and there was only a gaseous atmosphere. As the atmosphere started to cool the Higgs particles started to clump together and created a kind of ‘field’ which interacted with the different elements of the atmosphere. These elements interacted differently with the higgs field slowing them down at different speeds. This created elements of different masses. So after the big bang, the atmosphere started to have small bits of particles floating around space. These small particles then became asteroid and then planets like earth. Now because of the way these elements clumped together we also got water – now water on a planet, then life as a single cell amoeba in water. The evolutionary process then begins. Fish to reptile which then walked out of the ocean to land to the mammal which then started swinging from tree to tree, fell off the tree and started to walk and to become the scientist who discovered the Higgs boson and they get to tell us how we got here. But keep in mind we still go back all that way back to the days of the big bang. Evolution still allows us to keep the genetic material that initiated us. Genetics can still trace us to the first mother and father. It tells us that there were many fathers and mothers at the beginning but we all came from one particular pair and the present day population branched off from them. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166906/Retired-lecturer-grandfather-Britain-DNA-test-reveals-direct-descendant-worlds-woman.html)
We will always be connected to the beginning of time. The Sun sustains us. Its light through our eyes triggers a lot of chemicals in our body to keep us part of the environment. The sun on our skin gives us Vitamin D. Without vitamin D we will still be swinging. Mood chemicals triggered by light through our eyes. Some of that light when it arrives on earth still stretches right back to the beginning of time.
It is crazy to see how that amoeba has come full circle to see itself as the scientist at CERN to figure itself out. Now how crazy is that to go from the beginning of time to now and then to see itself again in a different time after evolution and where nought here to, you may ask. You better ask those guys from CERN. But I would put the last penny I have on how the body and mind will develop to be fully connected to its environment both past and to its present and to realise that the ‘observer is the observed’ (jiddu Krishnamurti) and he is one with his environment and to the beginning of time and to everyone in the universe through the morphogenetic Higgs field (Rupert Sheldrake) that permeates the universe. Was chance at play in the evolutionary process or was its template already mapped out in the the morphic field. The structure of society was created by the mind of man. The creative process was involved for its creation. But man itself was not created by its own mind silly, because it was not there yet to create shenanigans for itself. She/He might have come about because of a template in the universe and then we created society with our minds using the creative process. Looking at the structure of society now, can he/she actually change the environment that it is living in if it did not like what it created. As evolution progresses in the body and mind the ‘itself’ would want to see the world it would like to live in differently. Like I had said earlier in earlier articles: we seem to be creating our self’s into our environment. The internet and technology has an uncanny resembalance to the ‘self’ that is us and to how we are all connected. It seems to be recreating itself into the environment. So as we better understand our ‘itself’ as we did today with the discovery of the Higgs Boson, will we change our environment to suit the new ‘itself’ in the way we live. If the process is an organic process with no template to guide it but the creative process of the mind then how do you think it will pan out in the future. You are already seeing some of it today as the transition is in place. I don’t think the ‘mind’ will take away everything of society it has created so far. But it will takeout some of it as it sees what the structure it created is making of him. The creative process is intelligent enough to get rid of the parts of society that imprisons ‘itself’ because it needs freedom to create and if it cannot do that it will change things. With the world in transition you can make your new world for the future. One can speculate as to what other changes will take place. If body and soul finds itself by discovery and freedom to create and he/she is the driving force then then society will make itself go there. It is a natural need. One can speculate that borders will go. Live for the experience and for the need to know. People will move about freely, hundreds of miles away from cities and start again. Those who live in the suburb’s will flock to the cities for the experience and for the need to know. They will come from hundreds of miles away, cross borders, and walk straight into cities and make themselves home. You can already see this in Europe. Financial situations of countries will force their borders to be open and to be less nationalistic. People come for some experience and go back, others stay and the ones that returned will come back when they are better prepared. People who lived affluently in the west will be happy to go and live simply by the sea in a much poorer country. Ordinary people will bring seminal changes to the structure of their new homes in more ways than one. They will not need permission to move across borders and set up home in a different land. People will interact and learn from each other. The net will be their source of information. The ability of ‘itself’ to ‘see’ will increase by leaps and bounds as people settle into their new psyche. Learning institutions will be less important as priorities of the people change. It will not all be back to basics. Society as such will exists but not like what we knew it to be before. It will be a one world system with a one world government. You will see the ‘itself’ now realising what it really is like and will create a new world like ‘itself’ to live in. And that is a world all one and connected to every part of the world like ‘itself’. The environment makes us as in the evolutionary process, and our minds makes for comfortable living in it by creating a structure called society around us.
And with this, in silence, you make Art and Art is a reflection of all that is all at once, this moment, the now, this instant and it shows how it is all connected as ONE. Now, how crazy is that. Something was discovered today at CERN and that is what the ‘new’ looks like.
Siri
(4th July 2012)