Category: Art & Science

Art & Science, MusicBy Bhusita0 comments, , , ,

Turning the Light Inward: On Curiosity, Connection, and Wonder

I have been inspired lately by a couple artists. Ren, a Welsh singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and producer -and BassForge (Tyler Engle) who is a “multidisciplinary sound designer and music producer exploring the intersection of vibration, resonance, and consciousness.”. What do they have in common?

They piercingly observe. They are both deeply curious and ask the big questions and share what they discover.

Ren has a gift for transmuting and transforming suffering into compassion and art. He shares the truth of his experience in this world with such raw openness and fullness that it reaches and penetrates right to the heart of our own experience. As a result, we are no longer separate!

BassForge is using his interests and gifts to help others look deeper at what we might ordinarily not notice at all. To consider how science and spirituality meet. To remove barriers to deeper knowing.

In this era of artificial content, deception, escape and diversion (from ourselves and others), they both mirror essential human qualities: humility, sincerity, connection, joy and enthusiasm! They explore the mysteries within and without. Their work seems to be deeply personal but with the underlying intention to be useful and beneficial.

They inspire me to keep taking the deep dives. To beware of closing the doors of exploration through the “I know” attitude. To explore with curiosity and wonder!

What can we find when we ask the big questions? When we turn the light inward? When we deeply consider another? What types of expression may lie dormant within us? Waiting to be utilized? What is possible with this precious human life? How exciting!

https://www.youtube.com/@RenMakesMusic

https://bassforge.us/pages/about-us

I will leave us with Mary Oliver’s inspiring words:

Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

Art & ScienceBy Kedara0 comments

Emerging

I recently discovered the brilliant artist, Rima Fujita. Immediately upon seeing her artwork for the first time, there was a joy and an aliveness vibing from the page. I sat with it in a childlike curiosity, scanning the image with wonder and appreciation. It was so simple yet lively, almost as if I could partake in the scene playing out in the piece. Inspired, I continued my exploration and found that Fujita has a wealth of artwork with vivid and vibrant depth emerging from a black canvas. “Rima Fujita is a visionary artist who translates images from her dreams and meditative states into luminous paintings…” According to Fujita, her “creative method is rather strange.” She says, “I paint the visions I see in my dreams and meditations. In my dreams I see the images of my finished paintings before I actually paint them. Therefore, I don’t know the meaning of those visions, but they usually convey important messages.” 

Here are just a few examples! What do you think? I encourage you to consider how artwork can enhance your life and spiritual practice. Messages coming to us that are not in the form of words can communicate something beyond concept. These vibrant colors bursting from a black canvas invite us to enter into the unborn potential of all things. This is where spontaneity lives, this is emerging.

In this picture it seems Avalokiteshvara may be protecting and caring for this girl. Her presence is captivating and seemingly immovable. It is so powerful to me! There is also another theme running through it, one of two’s – Two Dharmakaya symbols, two lotuses, two Vajra poles and two women meeting in a sacred space, a unified whole. Maybe it’s a visual representation on the merging of practitioner and yidam? Maybe it’s an image of an ego that has been laid to rest (girl in black) while the Holy One, Avalokiteshvara, represents our enlightened nature which is never born and never dies. Who’s to say? That’s for you to decide.

Fujita shares her connection to the great Bodhisattva in an interview, Visuals of Compassion, where more epic pieces are revealed.

Her 2016 Exhibition “Pilgrimage” may just be my favorite. Enjoy!

Visit her website: https://rimafujita.com

Sources: https://rimafujita.com/bio

https://teahouse.buddhistdoor.net/visuals-of-compassion-artist-rima-fujita-on-her-new-exhibit-karuna/