inner nature+ inner sense

 Thanks to my wife and her appreciation for our local place of shared knowledge

Olive Free Library the framed works pictured above were selected by the curators among a number of images submitted for the animalia 8th annual small works show.

thanks to the art committee for taking the work into the show even though they exceeded the 12"x12" max size restriction by a couple inches on the vertical plane after framing.

the 2 watercolor paintings are a number of years old, part of a series of portraits of aquatic macroinvertebrates inspired by my interactions with living samples at the aquatic macroinvertebrate station of the tide line programs of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater's education programs.

On the wood floor leaning on the wall before hanging are the original pieces as left by the artist

and the spirits of interlocking parts throughout the significance of choice and chance

surface placement attention awareness showcasing submerged overlooked oracular opportunity.

a presentation and display of what can be learned from little things from a different perspective

That everything is alive and being beyond the understanding and awareness of the countless individual participants involved, each responding to the world as they feel it.

 a black fly larva, a tiny speck to the naked eye depicted uncharacteristically singularly attached to a surface fixed from the rear, just beneath the shallow wet plane the moving water flowing over head moving fan dance response bringing all respiration and nutritional needs

directly to the lucky wet place that the mother laid her many eggs. The immature immobile passive filter feeder quickly pupates leaving its skin and the waters' surface as a tiny poorly flying insect adult that has a painful bite.

short lived seasonal presence magnified with its 2 teeny tiny eyes looking out at the viewer in this painting what would be obscured by the reflected sky if observed in the field.

the lesser water boatman is an adult insect easily recognized moving on the liquid surface with specially adapted legs for mobility in aquatic life acting as oars to propel its buoyant body around

that demonstrate amazing awareness and control agility, and speed with thoughtful intelligence and deliberate action that has evolved over many generations of insects leaving the land of walking and crawling behind for air from the surface, life on the water and food foraged from whatever is available reacting to changes in their environment and move on as depicted with rear legs extended over the head directionally oriented .

top of the composition, the 2 eyes are present approximately where they should be attention centered balanced forward moving

to characterize and generalize the spirit of a life form is not the artists intention yet that might be the best tool of expression available to differentiate the many existing beings observed that have unique related compositions and habits forms and states within the world in which we live.

The subject is not the external shapes of biological beings 

but what is alive and aware inside of those individual physical forms

different sensitivities 

 life experiences

behaviors

 habits 

feelings

choices

minds

thoughts

participating in a process across this whole Planet -Nourishing Earth

                                                                               Healing Learning Growing

DNA is not the container of predeterminism that materialistic marketing media promotes it to be.

Non-human life has a spiritual dimension, a nonphysical aspect that is real outside of the hierarchies

 imposed on the minds of theologians and scientists of spiritual evolutionary process

 All things great and small have their own reason for being and a life to live

with psychic abilities accessing life directing ways of being from outside

 of the individual or familiar group

All have an inner voice

inherent instinctual internal imaginative instructive interest

what is felt inside

the soul is not the possession of the body 

it is not owned by an awareness of agency but is borrowed and returned from its source.

intuitive knowledge of

 experiential wisdom accumulating meaning over time from life and the imagined lives of others

developmental stages

life spans in timelines

places in systems

territories in habitats

expressions in exhibitions

invisible shapes coupled with silent forms

 organizing principals of structured ordered movement of energy

                                                   expanding contracting 

                                                    ascending descending 

polarized toroidal vesicle spinning contrary vortices from ends. 

                                                         state of being

sovereignty and idolatry

 

                                               right relationship between all of the living and dead

                                                 that we share space together on this blessed land.

 

Blessings bringing balance

beings' brief bodies

borrowed between bloom

blaze before bordering 

behind becoming blessed

adaptive apotropaic awareness application

 

adversarial antagonistic attention aversion accumulating aftermath adhesive acrimonious analogue 

articulating anomalous animated antipodal advances avoiding accentuating aggression armoring

alternatively anticipated apocryphal acceleration apocalyptic anxiety alert adjustment attitude anatomy

advising addressing appropriate axioms aspire alienate antipathy acceptance ambient anthropomorphic

atmospheric ambidextrous appreciation ambassadors awakening awe around artistry all agree

                                                                      abracadabra

colorful curious community communication complexity

                                                         messages may be in the sending

recognition is preoccupied with reception

receiving

picking up something and getting something out of it

something that informs the consumer

feed the appetite

quench the thirst

satisfying a need or desire

                                                         magics may be in the making

language use is not a limited feature but a shared feature of living awareness

group souls express themselves within the individual generations born on Earth

seasonal growth vitality informed by flowing changing energies

moving through time and the substances of dimensional being

power pulsing through places 

creative life force generous fertility

 attention to the unconscious messages of community and its varied inhabitants

understanding

  life meaning

purpose

                                                  wishes may be in the wishing

recognizing relationships between things exploring and protecting critical inquiry are natural psychic gifts

ignoring denying simplifying communication channels platforms feeds networks and pathways is a tool of controlling awareness

obscuring provenance

sensitivity and sincerity share emotional feeling connecting things in time and space beyond traditional boundaries and definitions

things with souls have dreams and imaginations raw uncultivated otherworld experience perceived

truth is more than a factual statement made it is in the interpretation of accuracy of description

subjects and objects in motion with associations synchronized correlations suspended in the trusting assemblage of adaptable being

creative cohesive coherence

intention and intuition spiritual flow waves streams moving affecting distant responses to the call

before they are voiced

they are conceived

look closer

with greater examination comes greater discovery of messages messengers and meanings

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feeling space with meaning

 subtly specific sensing sentient symbol structure scale sample spacing signal surrounding sentimental

spiritual specialization shared synchronicity species sympathy shine shadow sanctuary social systems

Feelings attach themselves to things and Things are attached to feeling in an animate world.

Things being more than an envelope of rational individual identity observed and described.

Resonant materials responding to energies passing through bodies boundaries beyond awareness

Active agents in their own understandings finding their own reasons finding their own meanings 

coded behaviors, messages and signs

as a group with language magic passed from generations unique adaptations to environmental pressures.

languages are used by nonhumans to communicate within their kin groups, and share expression to get the attention of others in the community outside unaware of their presence

synthetic screens share statistical social stimulants sensationalized separates stratagems strangeness

service stress shelter search security strain societal slide scenario story scrolling scarcity serendipity

communication technology has evolved faster than the language user's context in utility and function.

media industry finance directing thought and behavior away from just price in the consumption-production cycle of the economy putting profit over people, automation rather than a living wage

emphasizing work and ownership in a competitive ephemeral world of buying and selling things.

making money becomes more important than what the money represents in value or worth and is used for. Meaning and message targeted to an audience in the habit of convenience from corporate overlords

staring up at the stars is a spiritual search as well as a visual stretch receiving information from so far away. 

the action of observing is natural telepathic empathy magnetic fields vibrating, feeling the essence of the presence of another unique energy signature touching and traveling through space and time.

communing with distant spirits is what we organically do making associations finding connections in relationships with others, peace and justice in the spaces we share simple safely respectful caring awareness in the intention of honoring the energy in the land the sea and the sky. Our feeling home

Our Emotional World