Portance and Passages

Through the darkness we grow and learn, exploring new passages with every turn, the imbedded truth can be found through the feelings better than through the intellect. We are shaped by the passages, we define ourselves only within context of the passages, that which is outside is unknown.

The work of Elizabeth Murray has deeply effected me, her amazing strength sheds such a bright light on where art is looking. Enveloping forms that delight and comfort, cause questions and give visceral answers.

Obvious factors like wanting to return to the womb could distract from the breadth of the question of what is thought? How does this work affect the thought process? I believe that looking deeply inside promotes sight of common denominators. Thought's environment is the issue. A place, a view, a setting that promotes a portal into our important perceptions.

There is a lot of unimportant expenditure occuring in the world just now and I feel that if people could learn to feel what is important by looking inside, we might wean these unconcious wasters away from the irrelevant and towards the important (important: that which is embedded).

Our basic energies have been subverted by religion, politics and the market place, leaving us to evolve our new techno-dependent brain which is still completely dependent on the animal. Pursuing techniques to forge an ability to continue to use anima/animus in our daily, tech-oriented lives can give us the visceral energy that could easily become a casualty in this century.

There is a temple, the outside of which is covered with erotic carvings of nearly every posture possible. The religion allows that most of the people will be happy with this layer, understanding the river of life, appreciating the temple as an honest statement about the way things are for them. A few individuals for various reasons go past this wall to find out about the spirit. They go inside to reach an understanding...perhaps a different understanding for each individual, but it is understanding from within, therefore: important. It would be very difficult to rate the sanctity of this temple from a Western vantage, I think there are a lot of republicans in the USA that that would call this temple obscene. I think those people are scared to look at the dark inside of themselves. It is strange that these scared people are in control of American politics. Since they have such control, we artists are obligated to show them the stuff they are scared of. I try to do it in such a way that the ones who need it the most may stomach it.