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By Alex Grey
This distinctive sequence of work takes the viewer on a image, visionary trip during the actual, metaphysical, and non secular anatomy of the self. From anatomically right rendering of the physique structures, gray strikes to the spiritual/energetic platforms with such photographs as "Universal brain Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the physique and the forces that outline its dwelling box of power.
Includes essays at the importance of Grey's paintings through Ken Wilber, the eminent transpersonal psychologist, and by way of the famous ny paintings critic, Carlo McCormick.
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Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
This precise sequence of work takes the viewer on a image, visionary trip throughout the actual, metaphysical, and religious anatomy of the self. From anatomically right rendering of the physique structures, gray strikes to the spiritual/energetic platforms with such photos as "Universal brain Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the physique and the forces that outline its dwelling box of power.
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The judge told me that from now on I must do more positive work, and put me on life probation never again to create such negative art. Dream, nightmare, vision, hallucination, premonition, or mystical intervention? The fact is, on some level far outside creative reasoning or creative ferment, these events took place for Alex Grey in a way that was, to him, indisputably real. In the shamanic tradition, important information from the realm of the dead or spirits comes in visions or dream. In recalling the visions today, Grey does not so much seek to answer the question of their origin as to articulate their form in the sphere of his own soul: "If you believe in some sort of moral ecology, or karma, you could say that the entities in these visions were trying to get me on the right track.
A painting does not have to depict crosses and Buddhas to be spiritual. " They issue from a nondual awareness or unity consciousness, which is itself Spirit. At the height of transcendence, Spirit is also purely immanent and all-pervading, present equally and totally in each and every object, whether of matter, body, mind, or soul. The artwork, of no matter what the object, becomes transparent to the Divine, and is a direct expression of Spirit. The viewer momentarily becomes the art and is for that moment released from the alienation that is ego.
But a beginning has been made, and a powerful new direction for a future spiritual art has been charted. "14 If, as many modernists thought, true art is the manifestation of Spirit, and if Spirit is seen most clearly with the eye of contemplation, and if meditation is one of the surest ways to open the contemplative eye, it follows that the truest and purest art will be contemplative art, art born in fire of spiritual epiphany and fanned by meditative awareness. This, of course, is precisely the idea behind many of the great Asian works of art, from Tibetan thangkas to Zen landscapes to Hindu iconography.