Ten After
by Tim Richards
Title
Ten After
Artist
Tim Richards
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
Digital symbolic and literal abstract. Pythagorean numerology.
The aim of human life is to focus on a Present that psychologically incorporates the Past and the Future, which are subjective factors that are useful but which tend to distract us from the immediacy of the moment. Our innate subjectivity, our selfness, is gradually drawn, by personal experience, social influence and survival needs, to an objective world and that forms a personal world of objectivity. But a particular human is typically biased in favor of either subjectivity or objectivity.
If a person focuses too much on the dualistic objective world (the figure of the dual unfolded squares), he/she will fall into external attachment and is often fixated by some form of ideology. If a person focuses too much on the context (the black background), which supports through contrast the focal object, that person will fall into defensiveness or self-centeredness.
But if both object (or figure) and context are brought together in an intense focus, so that a creative resonance occurs (a healthy Gestalt), meaning, knowledge and new realization arises. That is symbolized in the painting by the circle within the small yellow square (the individual consciousness), from which magically draws down a spiritual impulse, or muse (the large yellow circle), and which can result in a Transcendent Image, or Universal Archetype. Right focus expands awareness. The degree to which we can identify and demonstrate the Transcendent Image in any human endeavor is the measure of our true understanding of Reality. For the artist, widely defined, it demonstrates his/her ability to serve as a medium of Spirit.
The number ten, conceived as the "tetractys" by the ancient Pythagoreans, was highly revered and symbolized the manifestation of reality--space--that is the basis of Creation. We all know that the number after ten is eleven (the small circle-square again in the painting), and which numerologically represents the Divine Twin, a greater being that the ancients called the True Self. To know the Divine Twin is to establish an innate connection to the divine, a conduit of inspiration. It is a tapping into sacred code, part of which is sacred geometry. Thus, new ways of perception are downloaded.
And isn't that at least one of the functions of the artist--to intuit something hidden and to show us a potential that we may not have perceived before?
Work completed in January 2016.
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January 15th, 2016
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Comments (10)
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your top finish in the Circles Squares Rectangles Triangles contest! voted l/f
Tim Richards
Thanks Scorpion Design, for featuring my work on the POSITIONAL AND VENN group home page.
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
This creation is fantastic and very artistic Tim!! voted for all your 3 images!! L/F/V