The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday June 11th, 2022
CIRCLES of TRANSFORMATIVE ART by David Sparenberg
A creative act is a two-part (and two directional) process. The work enters the world, emergent from a concentrated effort (out of what Yeats called “passionate intensity”). It occupies a space, encapsulates a time – the time of expression, durance, and recurrence: your painting, your poem, your body language of choreography, your voice, expressing attentive presence through vibration-movements of the song you sing. That part of the process is overt. It becomes fixed, a fixture in human culture, and as such can be approached by others.
The other part, arising from the interior, delves further into the interior, and begins there to open, change, and reshape the creative individual’s identity. The more frequently creativity happens, the more extensively a personality characteristic is developed, and the person-as-artist is transformed. From this we may speak of creativity within the artist interior journey as transformative art. Patterns of recognition, resource and reliance are established and eventually, along with whatever else is existential, the artist becomes a gestalt of the art created. Rembrandt was Rembrandt’s portraits, Leonard Cohen his songs, Georgia O’Keefe her magnified and intimate flowers. It is out of the gestalt of authenticity of identity (the unified creative articulation and perspective), coalescing with transpersonal connectivity, that the artist is given cultural recognition and placement.
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Quantum #1 #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
"Searching for something"
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Ephemera #59 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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