The drawing evolved with a lot of reworking and rubbing out, as I developed my ideas. This creates quite a rough and delicate surface, but also a sense of time and captures the process of its creation. It is one of a series about the Buddhist teaching of accepting impermanence. Everything changes, from people in our lives through to possessions and environments.
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In the painting, two experiences are depicted of when I have had a glimpse of an 'universal consciousness'. Witnessing an owl hovering above brought me into the present moment, where there are no thoughts. That unexpected experience when time stands still. Without thought, one feels connected with everything around us. The second image beneath the owl was inspired by sitting quietly in front of a tomb. As my thoughts subsided, so did thoughts of time, self and separation. I felt a connection with all beings, through the stillness of the tomb.
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Inspired by reading Eckhart Tolle .... "Eckhart Tolle when he wrote "To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.".
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A drawing which is part of a series exploring the idea that we need not identify or be our thoughts, but can also be an awareness behind our thoughts. When we witness ourselves thinking, we become that awareness, which is formless and possibly universal. The drawing is very delicate, having been heavily worked on, with almost transparent patches.
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