BryanwithaWHY

 I have a deep-rooted habit of questioning in my nature,

subtly different than always looking for answers as a learned behavior.

Searching for truth has never been my intended spiritual mission,

markedly different than my involuntary reaction of discomfort from lies and falsehood.

Direct observation of the natural world informs my beliefs in magical reality coupled with a sense of                                                                      awe, marvel, wonder

when people make something sacred, a space or offering, it is a separation from its natural normal function.

its purpose and intention transformed to honor the sharing of blessings for the greater good 

the practice of respecting the beneficial efforts involved within kind relationships amongst spirits.

Perfection and Purity are human hygienic value judgments in reaction to corruption and idealization

impositions on the natural order establishing authority and hierarchy of belief with social conformity.

Clean and Unclean                                Safe and Unsafe                              Lucky and Unlucky

because some thing is a popular belief does not mean it is true,

and so, it is with unkind

 disrespectful

offensive characterizations, language, actions, expectations

stealing the story, controlling the narrative,

 promoting disharmony and disabling trust with hypercritical contrast

the seeking of advantage, looking to dominate, taking by force or trickery, winning at any cost is the industrial competitive pollution I try to spiritually keep clean of.

                                fear is not part of the spiritual picture I perceive or provide.

                                       spirits freely invited to share in hospitality with gratitude 

giving of attention, expressions of caring, appreciation of effort, part of an extended community

                                 belonging in being in what was brought and what your bringing

 

                                                                         blessings

attention dimensions shadow

resonant cells echo the subtle body

 counter spinning coils cavitate concrescence

excitable energetic envelopes

expanding and contracting

rhythms of relationship between interior and exterior pressures 

frequencies in wave pattern vibrating sensitive boundaries

oscillating currents directive patterns in the movement of life force

polarized receivers grounded in the earth informed by the sun

responsive to energy radiant or reflected

light and shadow                     warm and cold

contrasting cycles and completing circuits 

 

 front and back with top and bottom

charge and discharge

 

continuously revolving central core axis

 

turning vortex births balanced breathing beings

corporal containers of awareness full of memories and feelings

tastes and proclivities, alignments and attitudes

reasons behind what they do- what they do

 that are outside of a singular individual perceptive field

positive and negative ends make up the whole

 and complete magnetic gravitational fate destiny polar projector

 interacting with greater cosmic influence and geologic time

embodied habits           critical judgement     choice      decision making

          

                            consciousness is connective not fixed

moving and changing in an impermanent imperfect world

reason                wonder            imagine            dream

friction from times passing is part of this experience state

beyond the being

 outside of the physical anatomy

a sense of direction

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