My first
thought when I hear the word creation, is the childhood, Sunday school
God, this all-omnipotent force that sees all and judges with a strong,
compassionate hand. I lived shrouded in this amniotic faith fluid and
never formally inquired about it. I did not intertwine the relationship
of my creative playing (realized gesture) as "creations" in
the sense of the "God creation" or a universal creation, this
play was something I had always done, using the things around me to
connect with the energy which comforts and informs us. I am engaged
to ask; is this creation the expression of a higher "truth"?
What is truth? What is God? Where does this play, this art, this realized
gesture come from?
I believe art is the recognition of the conscious and the unconscious
action and what is beyond our perceptions of space-time. It is the God
act or Buddha consciousness. In my theory, art is the creation of conceptual
gesturing, stated in terms of theologies, as truth. The very act of
conceptual thinking (art making) is a "theosophy", a system
which professes to show how to attain direct, mystical knowledge of
God or existence, interacting within the gesture of space-time. The
action of art making is seeking the innate character source of actual
entities composing the universe; like the poetic style of Haiku, the
expression in art is of the same essence and vibrates with the same
energy as a Zen koan (unanswerable question).
Hidden within the gesture of art making is a thought and also within
every thought there is a gesture. The place where thought and gesture
connect is that unnamed place in which all is created. This space-time,
this temporality in Sanskrit space, is revered as the absolute source
(Brahman), It is space-time out of which all these creatures proceed
and into which they again received: (1.9.1.). Gesture has been referred
to as the place of nothingness. Zen meditation practice is the sensing
of nothingness without acknowledgement of that place, for if you do,
it becomes something within the limits of our experience of space-time.
This experience creates boundaries, in which we surround ourselves,
and in turn limits the possibilities of creation. Alfred North Whitehead's
concept of superject loosens the boundaries of written possibilities
and puts into motion the idea of subject and object. The subject and
superject interacting and reacting off each other, hence the stagnant
object is put into motion. Now the understanding of gesture is reborn
as the reality of creativity. In Quantum Physics, life (universe) our
very existence is expressed, as everything is energy in motion, cause
becoming effect becoming cause becoming effect... In most religions,
the human existence (our gesture) is considered "the divinity vehicle
or the radiant of the spirit". Joseph Campbell "We are the
phenomenal person to a source. We are the creative potentiality".
This moment now is the heavenly moment, no purpose but a path-just becoming
life in movement; it is the coming into actuality.
Life
is the gesture, art is the expression of that gesture.
Rachel