The Beginning of the End of War - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Photograph

Biodynamic moon art started out as both an idea and feeling for the need to create art from the imaginative heart inside to produce a natural manifestation on my world outside.  I always felt separated from the work and art produced. So I sought to create my art through the experience of meditating and communing with the spirit and forces of nature in ‘present’ time. The experiment to harmonise with my unconscious invoked the female muse, the Goddess who in my case worked with the ever changing powerful moon phases. Linking with the yin energy of the moon, sometimes juxtaposed against the yang energy of the sun to expose the androgyne duality of existence. Shiva Samhita, a 500-year-old Tantric text, sees the “sun” as our solar plexus and the moon is not only a source of immortality but the “moon,” in the crown of our head. 8 was born, a symbol of life and perfection that belongs to all. For the first time, my art worked in a unified way, prior to this my art was very specific. Now my art came from the unknown but appeared to have a foundation clearly felt inside manifesting outside in a variety of ways. Biodynamic moon art allowed my work to find itself and create a meaning of its own. It also made me and my body feel different each time. On every occasion, events transpired and sometimes natural coincidences confirmed authentic interaction with the natural and the unconscious. This closeness to spirit and nature only evaporated by engaging in the ‘real world’ and this was where I noticed the difference, the disconnect, a separation. Biodynamic moon art taught me that there is tension in life but in states of meditation, there is only unity and it was possible to solidify this in art. The tension described by Hegel which western philosophy chose over Schopenhauer has no place in the arts which aspire to the highest ideals of the imaginative human spirit mind. Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge...” Einstein must have understood first hand that humans are mostly encouraged to operate with and use only 20% of the conscious mind often deterred from accessing 80% of the largely unknown unconscious. Yet the unconscious is where powerful imaginary recesses reside. Nature, the arts, playing, praying and mindfulness help access a small portion of this bountiful divine spiritual aspect. The attraction of the unconscious is that it is the uncritical and non-conscious part of all life. I like, all before me, cannot touch the unconscious.