Mary Putera offers the rare privilege of witnessing a painting’s emergence—moving from silence and devastation toward light and form. Each stage reveals art as a way of metabolizing grief and rediscovering Beauty, inviting us to presence pain and co-create the conditions for renewal.
"A full moon night, a new moon sky, lunar and solar eclipses are such occurrences when planets align - to bring magic to the universe. In many cultures, this astronomic alignment is seen as a sign of divine intervention. Artist Sarla Chandra invokes this magical phenomenon in her latest series Syzygy - that explores the cyclical movement of celestial bodies in the cosmic world."
"Immersive art forms have the power to deeply resonate and transform people. They intentionally combine experiential elements such as music, spoken word, and poignant imagery to catalyze proactive changes in our emotional, somatic, and spiritual states. When the need for compassion and tolerance is more important than ever before, it's vital that we explore new ways to tap into these arts strategies."
Written music - you're creating a thing that will never actually happen. It's a soundless music that is essentially just a set of instructions that everybody who plays it will to some degree approach but never land on because it's not possible. That's why you can play classical music for two hundred, three hundred years and never be done, because there is no definitive version of the piece of paper. The definitive version doesn't exist in sound. It exists written on the page. Written music is unrealized.
Mum received a diagnosis of schizophrenia when she was in her teens and growing up I used to think of her as “my secret”. After a long spell in hospital Lydia was institutionalized in 2004. I’d enter her room with “Hi Mum” and be promptly dismissed as she ranted her demand I leave. One day, I decided not to leave
When I think about the relationship of art to truth, the first word that comes to mind is authenticity. Any expression of words, sounds, gestures, rhythms, images, etc. that comes from one’s authentic self is both truth and art.
A new world mind is growing, like so many blades of grass through the concrete of human tyrannies old and new. The post 9-11 world is proving that it cannot solve its problems and so we must begin to plant seeds of creative possibility for future generations.
Uncomfortable is a song I’ve journeyed with for some time. Like most companions, it reveals different facets of its character depending on the light in which it’s approached. At times, it’s a song about awakening from the constructed, conditioned self…
"We can transform negative energy and blocks to our understanding of the world within our own vibrational field through the absorption of energy generated by Tao Calligraphy."
Creativity is one of the greatest medicines at our disposal during times such as this. Our spirit, the sentient presence that animates us, is by its very nature, creative.