Yesterday a dear friend of mine invited me to a morning talk at The Museum of Louisiana for a current exhibition about Lucian Freud.
As I work with the soul, energy, and the inner landscape of human beings, I see Lucian Freud’s art as revealing how our life experiences are carried and expressed through the body.
“He paints where life leaves its marks.”
He does not paint auras, angels, or spiritual symbols. But he paints the place where the soul has lived, loved, suffered, and experienced life. Therefore, his works can be experienced as spiritual in a very grounded and existential way.
It is precisely the field of tension between body and soul, the visible and the invisible, that makes his portraits so powerful, but also sending mixed feelings and create reflections and thoughts about themes like :
The Soul Through the Body, Deep Presence, The Shadow and Authenticity, Life Force, The Sacred in the Ordinary.
I have worked and created art myself and love what art are able to create in us…then a little of the landscape on a cloudy day – Sweden on the other side of the strait.
Pure open awareness
I have always had vivid dreams and a rich dreamlife. In periods I have been able to awake myself in my dream state and tell myself that I was dreaming, that’s funny, but not in the meaning of awakening up from my sleep, I just told myself in my dream state that I was dreaming…
In between
Deep contemplation lately The artistic, the creative, the unfolding is also a spiritual process; they go hand in hand. It requires inwardness and calm. There are things that are very difficult to attain if the mind is highly outward-focused. If it has to be outward, organizing, and in contact with a lot of people, that…
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