"I Can" art exhibit

I'm currently exhibiting at a gallery in Fortitude Valley. I'm very pleased with my input into the gallery. I have been exploring elements of Hinduism and looking at them from my very "outside" kind of perspective. I don't know of anywhere in this city where Hinduism is practised and I am really unaware of people who follow this belief system. Perhaps the closest I have seen of these cultures are just the collections of associated trinkets sold in Chinatown. My research has been collected on the internet and also certain books of a British philosopher named "Alan Watts" ( The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are). So it would really be falsified if I claimed any true knowledge of Hinduism but I do now have a knowledge of something completely different.

In my search through these western interpretations (for a western audience) of Eastern beliefs I came to understand that the nature of things is the entirety of everything it is and everything it isn't. It's just inseparable. There IS no being without the concept of a complete lack of this. Vedanta Hinduism, from things Watts indicates, believes that the whole universe is in an endless cycle of a kind of an on off game. Which applies to all values. So that's what my artworks showed. Images of superimposed beauty and grotesqueness, architectural type lines filled with very natural (almost wiggling) paint strokes.

Lines moving between on and off, white and black

The architecture of flesh

 All exposure is good. It's also good to have a purpose of actions. I now want to move to a series a paintings once more that don't tell you anything. I have noticed finally that whilst I like dearly so so much contemporary art, I am thinking that a Benjamin esque urge to replace feeling with concepts is creating art that doesn't necessarily make viewers "feel" anything so much as just "criticize" something else. I don't know what I think about that observation, but I just have a burning desire left in me now to create artworks that are only to generate emotions. I am  look at expressionist and minimalism schools of art in particular. I'll keep you updated with my attempts to discover something raw but beautiful........