Graham Phillips Art: August 2009

The State of my Mind is so Busy, "Do you want to buy this?" - I Should Burn it!

Graham Phillips

My main aim is to challenge the perceptual concreteness that we base our conceptions of 'entities' on. What this means is; the belief in our sensory perceptions as an objective “truth” and the notion of a self that we create around the elaboration these perceptions through thought. Using abstract formless suggestion of form I am hoping to create and recreate an experience that will remind the viewer of the illusory nature of the reality that we inhabit, create and live in.

It depends on form to be definable,
Its definability requires some form,
Without form it still remains dependent on form.
Form is forming and somehow the dependence is
less acute.
In both cases there is no requirement,
But does the requirement for a thought
Defining it, require the appearance of form?

If something has no form it is something that one cannot explain, it can be described but only in a pointing sort of way. But this explaining in a “pointing sort of way” means that it has some sort of form. So in terms of thought there is a requirement for some form, but independently this requirement doesn’t exist. With the knowledge of the grasping nature of thought, which is our dependence on form, we can see the process or origin of the dependence of form, on us giving it content (even if there is none!)

Painting is my vision. By vision I mean the outer representation of my vision, which includes primarily a knowledge of the base of the mind, (which is not really something visible). This base of the mind is beyond words but, I think, demonstrable, through painting. If it is not possible really to demonstrate it, it is however the source of potentiality through which the painting is produced and therefore reflexively expresses it. This demonstration through painting can have a profound effect on our awareness of our own minds, this is the main reason why I paint.

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