June 30, 2018

Common Sense

Do you take photos just to have a document of your family and places you travel to? Or is it done with ego's need to report back to your family and friends, see where I have been! If so then you are in the trap of the surface need to be seen and not listened to.  

We absolutely have a need to document our lives. We need those pictures of our history, of our family's history in order to feel times ruinous momentum. We are trapped in time and space and our past, present and future are part of our families intimate existence.  These images usually end up in a album that are looked at when families get together. We see a physical replication of our past in these surface reflections, our own family heritage and this continuity strengthens our will to move forward in our own timeline. These images are artifacts of our family's past, present and future destiny whether good or bad. But these images do not delve deep into your conscious mind. 

We trust these image because they are family and in the family we share our deepest thoughts. If we don't share then we break apart and lose our continuity of purpose. 

To live in today's world of Social Media and Corporate News we see the break down of families inner unity. We see family life disintegrating, being separated from each other by the herded need to exploit ourselves for likes, that lead to followers, that lead to more hits and thus more ads to buy the products that reinforce our shallow human goal to promote and glamorize our lives as special to all eyes that demand our personality of fraud. 

Family is trusted with our most intimate details. These life events are not broadcast on social media just to get a few more selfish greedy eyes to look and like. If you think that posting everything and anything makes you more important then you are truly addicted to the non-reality of a poser's life. You don't understand the undercurrents of the business mind that lives and exploits everything you share and know. These distractions of social media play a game of hide and seek. An endless losing of your own dreams that disperse and flutter and puff they are gone because you have been distracted from living your life, by having your life exploited by the powers that be.

Common sense should tell people that to live a life is to breath it, to feel it, see it and to be it. It is not posts on any site for likes and ego power. It is to explore your own uniqueness and your creativity to produce a body of art that is you. This art is not to be exploited by media but to be given and shared by you for your fellow human beings. Not a post of delusions to distract you from your goals and placate the fearful intellect that believes that this surface reality is their existence. 

June 10, 2018

David Hume, "Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them."

In a fresh present tense existence we see with open eyes not through past experiences and mental images of the ad men created solely to direct us to comply with the growing outside forces of conformity.

Memory distracts us from connecting anew each of our moments in times hurrying present. We try and grasp anything that can distract us from the fury of deaths opening door. 

We are on stimulus overload with a constant bombardment of visual temptations that stimulate the minds passion to be something different that what we are and were meant to be. Each life is a gift that must be discovered not in fashions fluttering escapes but a life you discover through being present in your moments. Being ready to identify with and allow this outer presence to become your aesthetic present.

We don't want to be free of the the structured needs instilled in us since birth. In order to create images with purpose you must brake the controlling addiction of conformity.  

Calm your mind. Listen to the subtle expression of your subjects knowing. When you perceive a subject there will be mind tricks to distract you from your intuition.  Your will to contemplate the scene in front of you must be focused and determined.  

Distractions will appear, time limits will try and hurry your progress away from your inner expression.  You must fight the need to move on and be taken once again on the walkway of the consumer mentality. Looking for something you saw in a previous mood and a wanting now to duplicate that with the scene before you.  Let go of the need to structure your perception by accepting the easy snap shot of submission, open up and let your inner landscape flow outward to show you the composition that reflects your inner truth.

This mentality to look at the external world not in its natural form but through the eyes of a consumer looking for what can please him/her not in a deep meaningful way but on a surface need, a need of glamour imitation an addiction to the surface reflections of a shallow mind.

We seek truths that unable us to sojourn on in our own purposeful will in silent contemplation of the moments still calm.

We can not let memory define our future.  We will not allow the drifting past to take us from the path we have intuitively taken to explore our inner self, through image creation that can allow us moments of our intense love of the ever shifting present.  

Break away from the demands of the known illusions of constant turmoil and conforming madness that make you cling to the past moments of glory or sorrow as if they were still present in your growing futility to become what you are not. Look upon each day as an adventure to see through the bright lights of mimicry into a different world of connection with the vision you will create.