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Visionary art is seeing and capturing the world from a quite different perspective. The mind's eye opens to portray a wider vision of awareness, from the fantasy realm of imagination, to spiritual and mystical themes. One transcends the everyday world of consciousness. Visions can be brought about voluntarily through native drumming, vision quest, fasting, sleep and sensory deprivation, mantras, drugs, meditation and active imagination. Involuntarily changes in consciousness can be brought on in dream, medicines, emotional trauma, mental ills, extreme pain or pleasure, and physical sickness. Man has through the years experienced visions or altered states of consciousness in one way or another. More then dream one experiences awake visions that do not fit into everyday consciousness. After having experiences of this nature myself over the years and finding it not always easy to put into words, I am now inspired to seek to convey and display those images in art form. |
Awareness is always absolutely present. Effortless is this presence. "Now" is not time. It always is. Time is only of the past and future, a mental construct, a concept. Conscousness to be has to be all that is. "iam you, we are one". |