The art of being you - Assignment
Looking for 'dependance on rites and rituals' in contemporary art.
There’s a magic in bringing together seemingly disparate things.
One of my passions is bringing together the Buddha’s Dharma with the world of art. It’s as if they shine a light on one another. Bringing a dharmic perspective to art seems to draw out new meanings in it and, through contemplating art, I find a more direct way into the Dharma.
I have to delete the word ‘interesting’ repeatedly in my writing as I use it too much. But I do find the world so interesting. I’m an ideas person, yet I’m not content that things remain in the world of ideas. I want to see them manifest.
With key Buddhist ideas, I want to know what does ‘interconnectedness’ look like? How would you give it form in a sculpture? As in Kusama’s Infinity Rooms.
What does ‘emptiness’ sound like? Could you record it? As in John Cage’s 4’ 33”.
In the movement back and forth between the manifestation, and the truth it’s communicating, that’s where the magic is for me.
It doesn’t have to be art. It can be the natural world or even ordinary life.
Below are a couple of examples from the art world that seem to tell me something about the 3rd Fetter, Dependence on Rites and Rituals. Here’s a link to the audio intro to that fetter)