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intermatrixnaut In reply to Silhouette-of-a-void [2007-08-29 21:52:35 +0000 UTC]

I like the Sepiroth, Gnostic, Esoteric. I intended the "Kabbalistic Tree of Life", more-over, the seed of life. I am but a student in the long history of life, what little knowledge I hold is fleeting, the more I think I know, the more I learn that I know actually nothing at all. The dangerous part of not knowing is that you don't know that you don't know at all, lol. That which you don't know can actually kill.

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Silhouette-of-a-void In reply to intermatrixnaut [2007-08-31 01:32:22 +0000 UTC]

Sorry if I sounded rude when I wrote that message, but I was in a bad mood, and I should be more respectful to my elders.

I enjoyed the nod to Socrates, or at least his way of thinking, but what you've essentially given me as a reply is that you know what you know more than you know what you don't know, or else you would know what you don't, and what you do know is then in danger of being what you don't, given you don't know what you don't know, and you don't know for sure that you know what you know, or at least to the extent that you think you do.

Simply, is there any meaning to your art, or are you just showing off - for example - does the title 'Alpha Chromatic Singularity" have any meaning or semblance with the work itself? And is there any meaning to your "Ratio of Success Khalid Class" or other similar pieces?

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intermatrixnaut In reply to Silhouette-of-a-void [2007-10-04 20:19:02 +0000 UTC]

I could go on the easy answer and just say that I am "showing off" to somehow stroke my ego. But, I'd rather just say something sophomoric possibly and just express these works as an evolving voice. Maybe, maybe not. Just that "Alpha Chromatic Singularity" had the meaning of "Alpha" as my first Acrylic composition, comparatively quite tight in the arrangement next to the series of "automatic" abstract painting in acrylic that came afterwards. The "Chromatic" was just to express another word for colorful, and the "Singularity" part was just that I have this personal dialog within the "figure" riding in the "craft" and the curling wave-like element of the blue-yellow ( pardon, I am color-blind ) in the middle. The yellow atmosphere/envelope, being bridged by the rounded blue. My own personal revelation/secret/story, is it is quite hyper-dimensional, bound to collapse upon itself, thus the singularity. Maybe the same vein of, as one would see, "your life flash before your eyes" before a traumatic event, time seems to be really fluid, flexible, and molded by consciousness, thus I have all these motifs-emblems crafted and congealed into this one painting.
By the experimentation of "Ratio of Success Khalid Class", I meant to mix up my elements in my approach to art. One, the correlation between Islamic art, that being more geometric-centric, rather than representing human form ( thus objectifying, devalue-product, prototyping ), with the script over our one ( man : that we actually do value our life ) to the emblem of our air-force over their seven ( children : a ratio that they'll have the population explosion, atleast in the near future to replace our shrinking population in Italy ( 1.28 children born/woman (2005 est.), Japan (1.39 children born/woman (2005 est.), France (1.85 children born/woman (2005 est.), UK (1.66 children born/woman (2005 est.), Russia (1.27 children born/woman (2005 est.), etc, in contrast to Yemen (6.67 children born/woman (2005 est.)

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Silhouette-of-a-void In reply to intermatrixnaut [2007-10-07 13:01:08 +0000 UTC]

You seem like a pretty interesting person, so I'd rather not interrogate you any further. One of my peevs is that when I meet people I know that they're in possession of a whole world of intricacies (their inner-cosmos), and that I could benefit from the wisdom or experience they possess. When I walk into a DVD shop, for example, they might be able to tell me whether there is a particular film that would change my life, like it did theirs. So what I regret most is the thousands of details, intricacies and objects that are not so much hidden from me, as masked in the abundance of my not knowing. But what I lament more is that when people meet on the Internet, they do not exchange in brief, the things they find enrichening, perplexing, beautiful or worthwhile in life, but endless vanities and ritual rhetorts.

So, to cut to the chase, if there is anything that has repeatedly reared its significance to your intuition throughout your life, it would make me very happy if you could share those things.

I, for one, would like to say that you might find much value in the exploration and repression of your sexual identity. That's what has made me so individual, in my opinion, but there's a paradox there, so you'd have to work it out in your own way, how you can both explore (come to the knowledge and acceptance of) and repress (forget and disavow) your sexual identity. Not that you have to, but life has taught me that the greatest powers of understanding are only afforded to those in crisis, in like manner as the greatest physical strength energises us in times of need - strength (both physical and mental) that we wouldn't normally think we possess. All of the great philosophers and poets were either in the midst of the conclusion of their search for these things, or so abundantly obsessive about its conclusion that they would search through pain and exhaustion for it.

What I would like to get at is that there is no such thing as a bad emotion, guilt, sadness, jealousy and hatred can all cultivate the soul and a diverse individual - and despite what modern culture would have you believe, love is not the supreme and most profound emotion, despair is. In the grips of the greatest despair, love will always be ancillary, and even in the grips of the greatest love, despair will never be ancillary. All the greatest men who have ever lived were abundant in emotions often scorned or regarded as dubious today; Milton was proud, Blake was angry, Descartes was miserable and Keats was used a veneer of high spirits to disguise his angst.

If I could recommend to you one philosopher - because he is more accessible than others - it would be Mamoru Oshii. Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence are masterpieces of open-ended philosophical cinema.

Everything else I could recommend is perhaps too convoluted or painful to be realistic, but I would be happy to know if there is anything of beauty or value you could offer to me. Here are a few single objects that may import to your intuition some wider understanding of me, but are themselves seperate, and do not belong to an overarching or premeditated philosophy:
[link] Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
[link] Once in a Blue Moon
[link] Life is Like a Boat
[link] My Wish for You
[link] Moonlight Sonata 1st part
[link] Hanging by a Moment
[link] Ralph Vaughan-Williams
[link] What if Everyone Cared

In all cases but the last I would emphasise only the music, so you would do as well, or in many cases better, to play the music without the video (e.g. in a different tab or window).

William Blake is a perpetual delight, but most people would be better reading his less religious messages, and for your conveniance, I will transcript a few:

"More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man" There is No Natural Religion ([b] V).

"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star" The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Proverbs of Hell line 9).

"As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers" Letter to Revd Dr Trusler, 1799-08-23.

"The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself".

One thing I would hope that you do not do is think me presumptuous. I have it confirmed to me many times in life by my acquaintances that people tend to exchange trivialities rathe than beauties or parts of themselves. I hope the latter is truly what you will think I am doing, because all I wish is to give you a most valuable fragment of myself, a light in the darkness of perhaps impending absence .

Sweet is the bounty of life, though little exchanged between men. May great minds forever meet, and kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. May tears not be laughter, but no less revered.

I hope you will forgive me my trespasses, and I yours.

"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion" Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History.

"Scenery is fine—but human nature is finer" John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey (March 13, 1818).

"The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night" Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil ~ aphorism 157

"When you're neither right nor wrong it's time to beat the drums and attack" Mamoru Oshii, Batou - Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults" Thomas Szasz The Second Sin.

I also find much worth in childhood. I believe that to be a child is almost unequivocally a joy, and to become an adult is to go on in stagnation, leading to despair. I believe that children are supremely beautiful and important, virtuous and enviable. I would ask that you appreciate children, for that is one thing that life has taught me to do. This quote was perhaps the most important thing in my childhood:

“Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity” 1 Timothy 4:12.

Best wishes.

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Silhouette-of-a-void In reply to Silhouette-of-a-void [2007-03-20 21:41:59 +0000 UTC]

My apologies, I of course meant "if the former", and not "if the latter".

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