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Seeking Symmetries: A Lesson in Spiritual Practices
Enhanced Intuitive Drawings/Reflections
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Hanuman, Symmetry/Full
Enhanced Intuitive Drawings/Reflections:
A Spiritual Practice
What is it that I seek to find in my photography and intuitive drawings when rendered? Nothing, in particular... What comes out, however, are more of a representation of my subconscious mind, and there is nothing other than what I place meaning onto, and what I invariably find. This is me, intuiting me, not another perspective. Thus, what I seek, is what I find. Even subconsciously, as you may have discovered by now, this can be seen as a lesson in spirituality and religion. In data science and research analysis, this is called attribution bias.
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So, what I have found? Mainly hints of the mystical and half-blurred lines of the spiritually seeker within me. In this case, it's Hanuman. I found the Hindu Monkey God, who in Rig Vedic Mythology represents the ideal Spiritual Devotee-- or at least half of him first in my original drawing. Right side, fine, left side, perhaps needing a face lift, lol. I won't look too much into it. We place meaning on things to seek order in our world. To make sense of things is what I perceive my desire for seeking symmetry on these pieces in the end... finding wholeness in the absurd, in love, relationships, in spirituality... What do I desire to make whole? Everything.
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Here is my process, wherein the outcome isn't as inherently fulfilling in the practice of doing itself-- seeking symmetries in the Self.
Rick Rubin's The Creative Act discusses the daily practice of creating to be the first step of being. The daily act of creating sets off our individual becoming into the creative beings we were meant to be, regardless of a spiritual faith. It's a practice I ascribe to when creating these child-like paintings in knowing that having something that ends up being deemed as artistically pleasing is not the point. The joy is in the discovery of and fulfillment in an individual's process.
Hanuman, Symmetry/Full
My more recent drawings have been enhanced with digital image editing software, however I avoid using AI image generators-- as I would like my pieces to be uniquely from my own form.
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Seeking Symmetries
Seeking subconscious symmetries was not the goal when engaging in my daily creative practice of what I consider to be art therapy and interacting with my, "inner child." Rather, it came later... and as part of a desire to find more "hidden figures" in the intuitive drawings that I later imported into a photo editing software, rendered, and then added symmetry effects to.
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In my later graphic art pieces, Reptilian Visitor, Symmetry & Death, and Dreaming in Parables, I found definite figures from my photos rendered, and recognition from the symmetry effects in that they inevitably appeared to be familiars to me, paralleling my experiences at that time. The Quetzalcoatl came at a time when I was relating to Mesoamerican History through the lens of Gloria Anzaldua in Chicano/a literature-- revisiting her Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza of "Entering Into the Serpent" and "The Coatlicue State" -- wherein the feathered serpent was originally meant to display the empowerment of Mesoamerican women pre-Cortes/the spread of Christianity.
Symmetry & Death and Dreaming in Parables had a more personal ascribed meaning to me, which I am not able to share at this moment. This was, after all, art therapy.
Ascribed Meanings
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