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Using Art to Quantify the Self Through Expression: A Thought
Art is a means of expression, to produce art you must enable your body to do some sort of activity- whether it is utilizing your hand and moving your arm to produce the motion inherent to the creation of paint strokes on canvas, or if it is your brain rapidly firing your CNS to make your muscles act in a manner to make your body dance. All forms of expression require input- from physical processes as well as mental processes. Imagination is an example of mental process which is required to produce art- you must imagine things in your mind whether if it is specific [in this example of producing a drawing or painting] to the subject of the piece to the minor thoughts on coloration details, the decision to cross hatch a portion of the drawing, or even the shading features. These are technical in nature, however they blend with another threshold of materium required in the grand process of creation. In my religious views the act of creation is a sacred cosmic force inherent to our universe balanced by destruction. Many religious and spiritual movements have concepts of duality, including western philosophy the bastions of ration and logic.
Music is a powerful form of artistic expression. Music seems to speak to a higher numinous element of human existence. Music is so powerful overwhelming to human consciousness, spanning across a scale of effect from behavioral to biological that makes it so powerful divine. One can only wonder if perhaps music is a natural byproduct of conscious living thinking things in the Universe, and if maybe if Music exist in some sort of cosmic more grand and collective form of operation. Music however has this element that exist outside it’s physicality that aides to a nondirect form of influence- through the metaphysical aspect of human behavior as influenced by the single individual and human psyche. This scale of influence is such a emanating aspect of the operational qualities of the Universe, as the Universe exists within a state of ultimate duality- the active and inactive, the passive and impassive, yin & yang, etc etc- words CANNOT describe this duality but it’s influence is felt in its resonant creations. [In science and physics/astrology you can think of matter/dark matter or sub particles that simultaneously exist and don’t exist. ]
Focusing on the technical aspects of creation- of their conceptualization and materialization from the realm of possibility and spiritual divine unconscious, and the observable acting Universe. I use highly esoteric terms because only they can signify the magnificent and almost sacred and perfect way our Universe is and works and will be. The act of creation is inherently capable of being refined through the processes of review, admiration, and engagement. This is why artistic forms of expression are so powerful and prevalent- one can view the masterpieces produced and gain mental energy and spiritual/psychic influence from them, the transferring of the momentum inspired from the processes placed into the development of the expression. To create music you have to produce sounds and arrange them in a pattern. Patterns are a quantitative icon to the compartmentalization our brain does with the information we receive from the world. If the Universe is a computer (or a machine.. or a living thing, a thing that exists and exerts energy), then certainly compartmentalization reflects an effort to analyze received data. It is an evolutionary advantage for an organism to have any sort of tactical or strategic component. Analyzing data is a form of strategy for it allows the drafting of patterns.
Patterns are reflected as operations- they are arrangements (like the sounds and notes of music) into particular forms (formulas on all sorts of mathematic, physical, chemical, and scientific of ways) [conceptualization state] that in turn mimic the methods of action required in the active state [materialization]. Quantification is a creative aspect of conceptualization and materialization, it is the border of the two realms of duality. Quantification allows the input of data received from previous acts of expression/creation and produce methods for future expressions/creations. It is the law of survival and evolution in action. It is the balance of yin and yang in continuous harmony, the divine nature of the Universe.
Understanding this, in all its lofty and high forms is the key to mastering success. However this grand understanding cannot be endeavored into every aspect of existence- that is the nature of the consciousness of the Universe, to be forever perfect and harmonious in it’s states and forms. The Universe and it’s consciousness consists of all things within it. This concept is so hard to understand because the nature of the Universe is beyond us. Consider it divine and sacred, for it is.
Everything has within it some trace of resonance from the nature of the Universe, whether in conceptualized or materialized influences. This energy is what people tap into constantly- for it is resonant in LIFE. As a living thing you can dedicate time [conceptualization aspects] and energy [materialization aspects] to your goals and manifest them into mobilizations towards the various paths of your life. Look at people who dedicate themselves to fitness, or the arts, or to knowledge, or to their work/career. Everyone invests energy into things, but it is the gift of man to be able to have the choice on how to budget the energy they invest into all aspects of life.
"Non Representational Geometric Art" by Grant Wiggins