Awareness Painting

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 For the first time I "planted the image on the canvas" after the Initiation - "Entry into the gates of tantra" - from a modern teacher of Tibetan Buddhism Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche.

 

 And it seems to me that a certain trace of that Initiation can be traced in my paintings.

 

 I think they convey a state of awareness.

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 And recently I met a confirmation of my feelings from another Tibetan lama of today:

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  THE MIND EXPRESSING ITSELF FREELY

   - WITHOUT FEAR OR JUDGEMENT

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  The essential practice of meditation is to allow the mind to express itself freely without fear or judgment.

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 In each moment of awareness we encounter impressions of the outer world through our sense perception as well as our inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions. When, through the process of meditation, we are able to let this incredible array of experience be, without trying to reject what we fear or pull in what we feel attracted to - when we relax into experience without trying to manipulate it in any way - we have a complete experience of mind, naked and unaltered.

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  Art, when it is free of such notions of beauty and ugliness, ‘shoulds’ and ‘shouldn’ts’ can be used to express this complete experience of mind. When art evolves from this understanding it provides the possibility for those who see it to also experience the natural and unfabricated nature of their own awareness.

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 ~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

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  I believe that the paintings below give the audience such an opportunity.

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  I will only add that this unimaginative nature of self-awareness is totaly joy and freedom.

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  It seems to me even more - that the painting of awareness opens a fundamentally new page in the history of painting. The past dissolved in the void of Malevich's Black Square, the light-bearing potentiality of the void manifested itself in the Fabric of the World. Which conveys the idea of the interconnection of everything with everything.

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