Essays

Theater of the Soul – a representational spiritual practice

My intention is to write about each of the topics below to develop my thinking about the process I am going through in creating these paintings. Please let me know if you have any thoughts about these subjects.


Stories:

Projection:

Theater:

Soul:

Dreams:

Art:

Idolatry:

Entertainment:

Catharsis:

Imagination: Sacred and Profane

All the world is a Stage:


References:

The Devoted Artist: Art as a Spiritual Practice

How to Welcome the Divine Feminine Into Your Spiritual Practice

Trees at Night, Arthur Henry Young

For the Artist at the Start of Day, John O’Donohue

The Miracle of Breath

Proprioceptive Art

Silent Crescendo (Tea Drawings) – Slobodan Dan Paich

The Conscience of Color: Ellen Meloy

September Is: Mary Jo Bang

Abstract Expressionism

Experiments with Wild Grace – Chelan Harkin

Mark Strand: Collages

Paulus Berensohn

How Drawing Helps You Think, by Ralph Ammer

Soul Biographies

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Hysteresis – Psyche Films

Synesthesia: Singing in Color, Painting With Sound

The Rorschach Test

Painting with Parkinson’s

Pareidolia: the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.