This final stage involves directly experiencing a state of inspired consciousness. It is the most delicate stage, since inspiration, as an altered state of consciousness, cannot be produced automatically. We seek to develop and strengthen the procedures learned through the methods of preparation and inspiration. No external theme or instructions will guide us: we will experience painting solely as a path of free meditation, beyond all conditioning. The essential element is emptiness, or mental silence. Only through this inner stillness can we feel a strong impulse to go beyond, transcending the forms and techniques acquired so far.
Entering the Profound
By learning to purify forms and energies, we remove what is superfluous, seeking an outward essence that reflects and is inseparably linked to an inward essence.
This cannot remain an intellectual concept: it must become a lived existential experience. Moments of deep empathy with the universe, great joy, and profound positive change cannot be planned in advance. Such experiences cannot be forced, but we can prepare to recognize and integrate them and, in our case, to live them through painting. Painting as a sacred act means experiencing art as an act of Inspired Consciousness, of openness and connection with the divine.
This requires a great act of faith, or a profound experience that has allowed us to cease doubting our immortality.
We therefore seek to refine our Purpose so that it may guide us into this special state of creative trance, in which we try to break through all automatic patterns.
Artistic and Technical Objectives
To paint with the greatest possible inner freedom.
Existential Objectives
To overcome the fear of death.
Spiritual Objectives
To intuit the immortality of human life.
Workshop Topics: Death as rebirth. Suspension of the self. The Profound.