Graham Phillips Art: ‘Impermanent Unrestrained Smile’

‘Impermanent Unrestrained Smile’

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Graham Phillips said...: ‘Impermanent Unrestrained Smile’

People say that art is a discipline, you should understand to disengage from the association of discipline with punishment. Words are linear which means that certain words have certain associations. For example the discipline of morality, you don’t have to punish your self to be moral. Morality is easy, it is easy to know right from wrong and if you do wrong you are open enough to realize and regret it and to make it right, or if you can to simply understand that your indestructible nature or the common basis of your mind is something that cant forget but at the same time cant be contained. Art is a discipline, like martial art, or spiritual practice. Better NOW to correct the association with punishment, because punishment means you are punished and that you don’t do it again. Discipline means that you enjoy something weather you are doing it or not.
It means you love your mother. Because since the beginning you were made by love, or at least pleasure, she was your object of complete satisfaction, just taking milk from her breast, you try to remember that, that’s pure love, same as the love of god. The moment you separate from this knowledge which means you start to hate your mother or you pray to god like he is an entity outside of you, or you base your self on hope and fear. When you are happy you should notice, you should notice when you are happy. At that moment you are in complete understanding of the fact that you will die and of the fact that your unrestrained smile is impermanent.; 20 April 2011 at 04:42

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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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‘Impermanent Unrestrained Smile’

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