To me, I seem to feel that to pursue the new is probably the only reason I would want to paint. Because painting has the sense of total freedom to create and invent, yet to use the medium to document the past or the present social conditions seem to limit its power to illuminate the underlying Truth. A book can do a better job documenting. Chasing the new I feel gives one half a chance to catch a glimpse of that structure. Painting is totally free to create and manifest the future. Painting is totally free to map that unseen underlying structure of Truth rather than waste its power in documenting the structure of reality as you see it yesterday or today. A new idea has the power to transform. It allows the artist and the viewer to inhabit a new space. To step up into another space. Even science and genetics seem to think that the ‘self’ is ever forming. The ‘self’ is not anymore that unchanging entity that you can go back to, but rather one that is organic and forms itself continually with time, age. So you see the new, you experience it, you live it, you become it, and you pass it on. So if the process is in any way tainted, corrupted, the process is one of a destructive one. It will literally self-destruct. The software that drives this process is thought. If this has evolved to the extent where psychological thinking has gone askew, as is evident today, then each parent perpetuates the self-destructive element in the being. So you ask yourself why does destruction of human life seem to reoccur all the time in pockets of places around the world. Since the process is organic it can become good by living the good life. The good life gets programmed in the being and the good life is passed on, and the whole gets better with time. This will take time and will only come about if the software changes: psychological thinking has to cease, as it is a waste of energy. It is an evolution of other aspects of the mind. The process is an adaptation of a kind of thinking that is used for purposes of safety in the human being. Psychological thinking is operating on the back of the process of movement of the mind where it flickers from point to point when it has to consider its safety. Take for instance when you are driving your car. It goes from point to point considering its safety, left, right, rear view mirror, junction coming up, child on left kerb etc. It happens with such speed that if it were any slower or with gaps in it you would not be able to drive a car and live. It is useful thinking so to say. But the same process has come to adapt itself to psychological thinking. Illusions are created with psychological thinking, hatreds are formed, anger manifested as a result of these illusions created etc. So not all thinking is good thinking. Thinking has the power to condition one to becoming: a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian etc and differences are created. Hatreds are formed. The killing starts. ‘Self’ destruction takes places. Because that ‘self’ that was created with time cannot sustain itself and has to self-destruct.
So what has this got to do with art? Thinking has to do with art. One has to be aware of thinking when art is made. One might be totally free to create art, to invent, but if one is still not free of the idiosyncrasies of the mind, then the work created is not pure and is not a reflection of the Truth. It is tainted by the illusions that are created by the mind. Making art of these illusions is making art of the past, it is cathartic, and it offers the viewer nothing new for him to step into. The new comes from insight, from the now, in an instance in stillness, not when time has had the opportunity to corrupt it.