THE NATURE OF CONNECTION IN NATURE

First Timers to this blog?

go to my blog archive on right and click on

the January post; a self published book titled GENIUS IS EASY,
is free on this site. This art book is the foundation for this blog.

WHY IS BEAUTY ATTRACTIVE?
Why are we more attracted to beauty than not? As we hike a trail in nature, we pause around every corner view, taking it in, as though we are breathing in some energy to fill our insides. With a sigh, we continue on hiking to fill ourselves throughout the day, healing our souls from previous stressed filled days.

What is the attraction, what is that essence energy we are taking in?

I am attracted to nature, familiar with the experience of that imperceptible essence, we all find attractive.

I thought the element of attraction was that beautiful scenery and landscape. One day a thought unraveled in my mind and I realized the attraction was nothingness, the space, surrounding all the physical beauty.
I was craving the quiet peace, the vast openness,
something I called the loud quiet.

Physical beauty was the by product of my interest. Even though nature was quiet,
it was an intense quiet because the space was so vast.
I was drawn towards no sound, visual emptiness,
an undeniable essence of nothingness.

What permeated me was real emptiness of space and quiet, surrounding a maze of images.
I could hear the air move and then it wouldn't, for hours without interruption. The contrast of physical beauty against vast nothingness became the mantra, beating against my psyche and body, into my soul.

The physical world seduced my senses and abounding silence and vast open spaces
filled me with peace, contentment, fulfillment and bliss.

I realized
nature was the catalyst triggering something inherent within myself.
The energy exposed within me seemed to be elevated by being present in that natural setting. Nature was meditating for me, I felt more alive, fresh and energetic.

I craved a very special, comfortable, undefinable volume of nothingness.

The gaps of silence or nothingness between the notes of sound define the melody. The emptiness of nature enriched and magnified my perception of physical shape.

My inspiration to create as an artist was magnified in the light of nature.
In nature and in meditation I experience this value of nothingness.
The book, Genius is Easy, on my blog archive,
contains one of four art mediums called pour and flow painting.
With pour and flow paintings,
I attempted to uncover more transparent pathways of nothingness
through the physical world of nature,
exposing more of this essence within and around all objects.

WINDSWEPT

The painting called Windswept in the pour and flow section of the "genius is easy" post, is a good symbolic example of transparent pathways through solid rock. This piece happens to be my favorite representation of real physical reality. In essence, the physical world contains more space than substance.

Abstract expressionism turns inward towards the emotion of peace and awe. Beauty and calm is magnified as essence becomes more exposed onto the surface. Expanding this perception gives rise to greater appreciation, joy and serenity.

The pour and flow paintings referenced on the genius is easy post represents a clear demonstration of nature’s work.

When anybody paints a landscape, the painting is a created representation of the real landscape. The land is real and the painting is fake land, represented onto the canvas painting.

The technique I use to create this abstract work is a natural technique. Natural laws of physics are utilized in the creative painting process. I set up the initial conditions and once the process of creating begins; the design unfolds due to laws of gravity. The pressure of flowing paint runs against edges and bends of vertically tilted large loose canvas sheets.

The Colorado River flows against the side of cliffs, carving its interesting textures against the rock walls of the Grand Canyon. The texture or art found on cliff walls is real, some more interesting than not. The texture found on my canvas sheets was designed by me but created by nature.

My paintings are real reflections of nature, since the designs are naturally carved utilizing laws of physics.

My hands did not stroke the canvas surface, in amazement I witnessed nature's processes unfold before my eyes. As you view the beauty of line and curve of the snake river flowing beneath the Teton Mountains you are viewing the physics of natural formation. As you view the lines and curves of my paintings you are viewing how formation is created through natural law over a tilted canvas surface.

My paintings are real as the Snake River is real. Both are created by the same force of nature. My paintings tend to mimic nature because they are nature.
The message of my abstract paintings is that
they are not representations of nature,
they are nature on canvas.

What is abstract?

Everything is abstract in nature. Your mind creates the Snake River and all its definition.The Snake River is just a number of curves and lines and shapes cutting across random boundaries.
Take a picture of the Snake River,
turn it upside down, crop out a section, display it sideways
and what do you have but a number of abstract lines, shapes and patterns.

The only reason you may know there is grass and water in the picture is because somebody else's concept of what it was, told you so...when you were young.

My desire and passion was to re experience and to place you into that joyful mysterious realm of undefinable energy, by painting,
AS NATURE CREATES.

My paintings are not my own.

In all four of my artistic mediums;
i.e. crystalscape, florals, skyscsapes, and pour and flow paintings
I felt more like a witness during
the art making process than the creator.

Nature performs all of the work. I watched in amazement and directed the creation and variations of color and texture. The work is truly an artistic jewel of nature. Whenever I can find ways to create in nature’s way, I know I can do no better myself.

If God created nature, God has become my muse and inspiration
and I am humbly taking credit with God’s hand in my work.

Dave Ryan

A DIARY OF THOUGHT ON

PURITY, MEDITATION, OBSERVATION

AND CLARITY

Copyright, 2009, all rights reserved.

BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF CAPITALISM...Societies hold on mankind...Conditioning or not

ARE PEOPLE ACTING LIKE ROBOTS

THE ANSWER IS YES

Capitalistic success is about making a profit. Bottom line in the society of business is profit. Focus and energy is aimed at, whatever it takes to make a profit. Some people may cross a line of deception in order to obtain their goals of financial success. Most people are hard working individuals seeking ways within the acceptable framework of marketing business for profit or financial success.

America is an efficient economic machine, a power base of energy stimulating economies throughout the world. Other foreign economies outside America also stimulate our economy. Competition rewards the consumer with the most efficient, cost effective products.

This focus towards profit is an efficient system maintaining a robust economy.

In my dictionary robotics comes after the word robust. Robotics is the science or technology of robots. A robot is a mechanical device operating automatically, in a seemingly human way.

The world now designs robots and computers, which are even more efficient than human beings.

The capitalistic focus is always moving towards

the most efficient designs to gather the greatest profit.

This focus or intention towards profit generates a successful world economy.

Robust is defined as strong and healthy. Is a person, acting like a robot, strong and healthy? According to our intention or mission, the answer is yes, because our focus is profit. What you put your attention to, grows stronger.

Focusing on love, compassion, and friendliness, is a human activity. Efficient robots cannot love. Love and profit are two wonderful elements we can enjoy in the living process.

Voluntarism and charity organizations seemingly focus on dual elements of love, and profit.

The mission is twofold, by human choice of desire.

Our choice to work in the capitalistic system is initially based upon fear of survival.

Do we live in a world designed around the survival technique of a dog eat dog world. Yes of course we do because the system works efficiently towards survival. The focus is survival.

Purpose in living is bent towards feeding the machine of capitalism. Marketing and advertising keeps us focused on the survival of the system of capitalism. This system is good for robot and human survival.

Do we choose to live to survive or do we choose to live by other means and goals.

The answer is simple; we want to survive in a loving world.

Are we living as robots in this present day society, meagerly focused on survival?

Yes we are focused and surviving in that conditional mode.

Our focus is survival conditioned by the standards of our present day society.

As a society, are we choosing greater fullness in living or

are we stuck into the habits and conditioning of the survival mode?

As human beings, a successful survival mode is the platform

from which we spring forward, to a greater end or fullness in living.

With capitalism, the means and the end are both one and the same.

The goal and focus of capitalism is a never ending process of acquisition.

The capitalistic system of design fails to move us beyond survival mode

onto more humanized levels of self actualization.

The machine can only provide food for the flesh while

the spirit still longs for what?

An example of a business marketing activator is, keeping up with the Jones carrot on a stick advertising.

Marketing within the system of capitalism is so creatively deceptive, we think we are what we buy and own.

Our friends also see us and judge us through the eyes of the market’s remedies for fulfillment.

The market has created the perfect human robot,

designed to perpetuate itself over and over and for what end;

survival of the market

. Remember, the markets prime goal is profit, not your fulfillment.

The capitalistic market is a positive entity on our culture. As a culture we are not yet far enough evolved to create a better system than capitalism, so we are stuck with it for the time being. Personal growth and evolution of a society may bring on better systems of commerce, in time.

The purpose of the market is to exist and survive

.If your purpose is to only exist and survive than the market will complete you.

If you want more in life than the market can provide

one needs to step outside of a false self,

take a breath and step back into your purpose for living.

Would you rather, your intention for living, come from inside yourself?

Higher purpose living is a calling, found within the listener, not the market.

The market has us focused towards its survival.

Our intention sets us free to choose our personal destiny,

utilizing the market as an aid, not an addiction, in the discovery process.

Yes I am suggesting

you do not have a completely controlled mind of your own in operation.

The market is a powerful conditioning agent in its own behalf

and we are all affected to a major degree.

One does not have to abandon the joys of materialism to gain self recognition.

All one has to do is to listen and focus onto your quiet intuitions

before giving yourself up to societal pressures and influences.

REFOCUS ON PERSONAL INTENTIONS

Unconscious living relinquishes power of thought

over to the business marketing forces of capitalism.

The market will keep your mind occupied and engaged towards its survival and successful growth.

If one chooses to play into the game of acquisition without discrimination of thought

then ones psyche can be manipulated and controlled outside of one’s desire and expectation.

Your personal life story is strongly influenced and controlled by market forces.

Marketing and advertising techniques involving jealousy and envy,

position weak minded individuals into desiring and purchasing products of illusion.

Diamonds, cosmetic creams and clothing are prime examples of expensive fantasy items of illusion.

The market wants you to believe and hold true, the messages about said products.

Business will argue the benefits but they are all still created illusions of benefit,

they need you to believe for their survival, not your fulfillment.

Thousands of products add up to a whole lot of illusion which makes up your personal vision of life, if you buy into it. We all enjoy the countless products available, but how much of our personal living habits are controlled by this mechanism. One only needs to leave a country for vacation and realize how their culture affects personal bias.

In America we have the freedom to choose self expression or be lead by forces outside of self.

The purpose of this discussion is to

bring awareness of position to our unconscious selves

about the routines and conditions of containment we survive.

Be unattached and still use the market as your tools of enrichment towards self expression.

Blindly plugging into market forces without discrimination

will lead one into an illusion of self addictive behavior.

SET YOURSELF FREE

Choosing one’s own thought process in decision making requires inner reflection.

The risk is choosing to go with what feels right inside for your self.

Listen to that quiet subtle inner voice.

Be a pioneer and create a fresh, self oriented path of discovery.

The difference being, you take yourself off auto pilot control tower.

Simplifying life is a tool for clarity.

Each individual has a comfort zone style for living.

Balance and moderation in all things are healthy perspectives.

Who’s life is it anyway, yours or theirs.

Dave Ryan

A DIARY OF THOUGHT ON BELIEF AND ATTACHMENT

Copyright, 2009, all rights reserved.

ryansbrush@hotmail.com