The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the seed of all true art and science. To know what is impenetrable manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty. This knowledge, this feeling is at the center of all true religion.
New religion continues to express art in the modern world. For many people change from tradition is a complete impossibility, and I can understand why they may think this. Formal religion is driven by narratives that are familiar for many but for some quite lifeless. New religious art has a tendency to remove all meaning and reduce the images to vague symbols. The old religious doctrines are a strait jacket for some contemporary artists.
The importance of the relationship between art and religion is still revealing itself. The church and the artist understand the affiliation between them, and the value of this ongoing dialogue. I believe the religious impulse will not just go away, we are improving our understanding of the divine without confusing it with formal religion. Religious art today has no contemporary origin but rather the same mystical undefinable experience found in the past expressed in the new mind.
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Your peace be still project is absolutely beautiful in both image and intent. I have been wanting to visit San Miguel and the chance to see this piece in person is one more reason to make the trip. The collaboration of you and Valentin and the grace of spirit is obvious and radiates the love and respect and union that was present in its manifestation. The universality is profound and touches the viewer immediately. I think of the stupa built in Colorado that evokes ‘liberation upon seeing’. Your project opens the heart to the love that is possible and present beyond the conflict and small-mindedness that is so loud on the planet right now. Thanks to you and Valentin for sharing your gifts so generously.