Absorbed– Now at West End Gallery
When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.
–Meher Baba, The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who died in 1969 at the age of 74. He claimed to be the Avatar– the human representation– of God for the age in which he lived and maintained silence for the last 44 years of his life, only communicating with an alphabet board and gestures.
I don’t know a lot about him but when I came across the passage above, I totally understood what he was saying. It’s something I have attempted to describe many times here. As I am working, most of my thoughts– my worries and concerns included– seem to fade into a distant point. They are there still but every other facility is involved in trying to create something on the surface before me that takes on a life of its own.
As he points out, with such immersion there isn’t room then for the ego. The painting is its own entity, free of my ego, free of my conscious thoughts.
It becomes a matter of instinct and intuition rather than intellect.
Too much thought muddies the surface and the message.
I think the painting shown here is good example of this idea. In fact, its title, Absorbed, came from that feeling of being engrossed and lost in the process. The painting itself feels like a perfect representation of the concept for me.
Absorbed is currently at the West End Gallery as part of Eye in the Sky, my annual solo exhibit there. The show is hanging in the gallery until next Thursday, August 24.
Below is an update from the West End Gallery on the upcoming Gallery Talk, at which the painting shown below will be given away in a drawing for those in attendance:
Hope Rises– Win This Painting at the Gallery Talk!!
All seats are filled for the GC Myers Gallery Talk on Saturday, August 19th from 11am-Noon. Any remaining availability will be STANDING ROOM ONLY, up to the point of maximum building occupancy.
WAITING LIST: Please use our Contact Form, if you have not already done so, if you would like to be added to the WAITING LIST for a chair in the event another attendee cancels. Link provided below. On the form, please provide your full name, contact information (where we can reach you on the day of the event), and the names of any guests that may accompany you. You should receive a Confirmation Email to be added to the WAITING LIST within 24-48 hours after you have filled out the form: westendgallery.net/contact/
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