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"The Genghis Khan Visitation Through The Exhibition Portals at LACMA"
by JV HARVEY If thou hast as thou sayest upon thy mission embarked, Then the deadline of which thou speakest thou hast not only met, but crossed And findest there thou hast begun a new life Wherein no force on earth can stayest. In this then we can but rejoice and embrace with open heart For what thou now bringest forth We can but see as progeny of our progeny And in our silence know the sublime joy Of any parent of a child in whom one is well pleased. The value of exhibits such as "The Legacy of Genghis Khan" at LACMA is that it provides opportunity to expand the viewers perception beyond the confines and filters of the day to day reality of our culture and society and in so doing perchance to glimpse the invisible from which it springs. The sweeping panorama of Eurasia of the 13th & 14th century once again reminds one of the various movements of creativity and art into the cultures of passing empires and civilizations that it brings forth and uses as materials in the creative process. Seeing the invisible beneath the surface seems in terms of time to only be possible in retrospect, yet it is in the present moment through which one is viewing, whatever the portal, to wherever in space and whenever in time. Therefore seeing the invisible is only possible in the NOW which is not confined by terms of time, and from this point cast into time the probable works of art, that which manifest in enlivened forms, the characters of history to bring itself forth through the mediums and vehicles of the artist that appear themselves as parts of the canvas or books in the living art, through which the probability is brought forth as what we observe as objects of art, themselves portals and anchors to the points in time through which they appear. In this glimpse one may sense the free spirit of the Artist Within -An "afterthought".... The timing of current events and the LACMA exhibit are but an example of the interlace in the threads of time which extend in all directions, whether past or future, and through which ones attention, as with and through today's art, may travel to view from multidimensional perspectives this moment of viewing. And in that attention draw forth the possibility of new directions from the field that hitherto fore have not been traveled. Beyond confinement, then, one's attention can throw open the gates of perception to awaken. Opening the crypt of the 'past' to release the ghosts of images held, as the archeological digs reveal artifacts of a time gone by, we construct or reconstruct a perspective of history wherein we see ourselves as possibility. Which self in which world do we attract to release the spirit from bondage to integrate the aspect parts in the freedom of creativity in this moment expressed? The great dramas show us all the things we have done as the things we needn't do in repeated forms disguised, and the ghosts transformed can become higher aspects formed in exploration of the new possibility. One cannot help but wonder - when we are artifacts of centuries gone, will we be remembered so kindly in our quest for dominance ... though the methods may seem different or softer in our justifying mind, the cost in human lives and the villainy the same! June Newsletter Go To Current Newsletter |