Manipura Chakra Drawing

STATEMENT The ART OF THE SPIRIT is the goal I have achieved and still feel I am pursuing. It is not necessarily immaterial or conceptual art, but creativity is aligned in my entire being: physical-etheric, emotional or astral, mental, causal or soul, spiritual. Over the years, the integral alignment of earthly and celestial vehicles has allowed for a voluntary, direct, and coherent connection with the superconscious. From this cohesion flows righteousness, well-being, integrity, and even focus, which becomes as easy as opening oneself to intuitive grace. It is no longer a sporadic state but a modus operandi stemming from knowing how to prepare oneself at every existential level, bypassing the personality filter. The initial research has become, with time and practice, a téchne, including different means of expression: painting, light art, digital art, video art, and performance. Before approaching the artistic expression of the SPIRIT, I went through, over several years, four personal and creative phases, described in my diary and manifesto without circumferences - acentrism: from the dream of the ego to Divine Reality - published by Bellati Editore in 2007 (Italian language). A-centrism is not the absence of a central core but rather the progressive resetting from pre-constituted circumferences: false selves, misleading forms, repetitive patterns, and conditioning. To return to the truth in me, I shaved the paintings - grattage - back to the virgin canvas and burnt drawings and thoughts until I perceived the fragrance and noise of emptiness. I chased "Vertical Alleys" (pictorial series) and crossed "Circus-stances/circumstances" (pictorial series) before glimpsing the light I recounted in my Light Artworks. Light has become a progressive presence and an all-pervasive atmosphere that I have learnt to recognise and glimpse between the folds/creases of matter. The Immaterial became perceptible over time. Thanks to Yves Klein's Manifesto analysis, I attended the Rosicrucian Studies Group for several years, as Klein was a student at Oceanside in California. In the eBook Out of the Blue: Yves Klein's Immateriality meets acentrism, available on my website at the moment only in Italian, I retrace the Rosicrucian interpretation of his Manifesto, also partly narrated by the critic Thomas McEvilley in the book Yves the Provocateur.