Introduction

I started the work by trying to find a spiritual art in a diary of meaningful sculptures. After I had a mystical experience I began abstract expressionist paintings. Unconsciously I began to link these art forms in environmental art and computer installations. The link was taken further in a mystical synthesis that is an interactive process and in a moral synthesis that is an art event/product. The final work links the opposites by ritual but ultimately the two perspectives are separate.
Anthony Padgett

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Mystical & Moral

The MYSTICAL relates to the pure Energy/Matter before it is Formed. It is the primal reality that is the source of all opposites. It is a formless energy, a process constantly changing. It is neither meaningful nor meaningless, everything just is what it is, a thing-in-itself. This mystical state of Nirvana is a natural experience that cannot be fully described as it is prior to concepts (abstract). It is the being of becoming - natural, eternal, universal, feminine, Jungian, transcendent and non-dualistic.

A creative process is an event e.g. design, dance and music.

The MORAL relates to the Form that shapes pure Energy/Matter. It is the philosophy of opposites, such as Good and Evil, light and dark, subject and object. It has meaningful concepts and aims at an end product. The moral struggle is a human struggle and the moral God has human (figurative) qualities. It is the becoming of being - technological, historical, individual, masculine, Freudian, sublime and dualistic.

A creative product is a final object, e.g. a painting or a sculpture that has meaning beyond itself.

GROUP ART ON THE-ISM (click)

Art History (click)

THEMES AND SYMBOLS