from nothingness to emptiness
Works on meditation: According to a study experts estimate that the mind thinks between 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts a day. [1] I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few more for me 😊 Of course, many thoughts seem very important to us. After all, they come from us. But if, before falling asleep, we reflect on which of them stuck in our minds or how many of them were actually important, we can cross out a few zeros.
When we begin with meditation – most people who have had experience of this are familiar with the phenomenon – we first try to clear our heads. Sometimes it’s easier to do, but other times we feel agitated and our thoughts jump around in our upstairs like a horde of monkeys. If we don’t pay attention to these thoughts, they lose shape and fade away. They often appear again in vague form and are gone again. Gradually we manage to let them fade away like clouds drifting by or the cry of a wild goose.
New Works on Meditation
I primarily work on series. Then there comes a point where I can’t see any significant progress. And it’s time to tackle something radically different. In early summer a point like this was reached again. Since my work was already overloaded and I wanted to concentrate on meditation and reduction again, a series was created that made use of minimalist practices to a certain extent, but above all focused on Zen and Dao more prominently.
Now I am back again and begin to grope my way towards the “nothingness” found in abundance. This is naturally easier on a blank sheet of paper. Again I started with a bang. Lots of activity – and nothing really makes sense. Thought carousel in the normal state, so to speak.
The same time I’m trying to continue working on the previous series and hopefully bring in one or two aspects from the reduction phase.
Evening meditation at the water
I often hear that viewers of my work admire my light. More and more often I try to bring light into play in new variants and of course to play with real vs. unreal.
Serenade at the water
It took up the theme similarly, but it became more surreal, making it an addition to my Abstract Surrealism series. There is dreamless sleep and sometimes it is turbulent. But when we wake up, only scraps of dreams often remain and some accompany us late into the day.
Death in the Park
It also tries to bring in a meditative mood in a relatively chaotic ambiance. The trigger for the picture was a message I heard in the last days of my stay at the spa: A woman and a man had died. One person in the room, one in the park.
I’ve tried to approach death in an abstract and meditative way before, which isn’t easy if you want to stay away from platitudes.
I should probably make a few minor corrections to one or the other sheet.
footnote:
[1] source: bing-chat
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