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Lecture
Modern physics has revealed what ancient disciplines have long maintained: everything is energy. Even matter, once considered separate from energy, has proved to be one of the many forms energy can take. Thus, when we work with painting, energy is released both in creating and in contemplating a work.
Considering painting from an energetic perspective reveals a great deal of information, such as where energy is concentrated, dispersed, blocked or transferred. Following its flow gives us another means of understanding what we do and, in our approach, of directing it towards multiplication or an energy surplus.
Workshop
In the workshop we will explore a way of creating guided not only by sight but also by other, subtler paths that have so far received little attention. First, we need to understand how energy flows within us and how it is transferred through forms, light and its qualities—that is, colours.
Every element and every material we use has its own energetic charge and value. We will learn to perceive its flow. The workshop aims to develop new energy: to create a work of art that restores strength and vitality not only to its maker but, at least as we intend, to those who experience it.
Workshop topics
Who is it for?
Anyone who wishes to experience a different way of creating. Maximum number of participants: 20.
Duration
The workshop lasts a total of 16 hours over Saturday and Sunday, plus a two-hour lecture on Friday evening.
Cost
The cost of each workshop is to be agreed with those interested.
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Lecture preview
Creating with Vital Energy
Vital energy refers to different kinds of energy connected with life on Earth. From an energetic point of view, the human being is the most highly evolved of living organisms, with the most advanced and complex energy system among living energies.
Human energy can be analysed through concepts known as “response centres”. These centres correspond to the different energetic levels of the human being.
We distinguish:
a. metabolic energy, arising from the body's processing of substances (air, food and water) through the Vegetative Centre;
b. sexual energies arising from sexual activity, also within the Vegetative Centre;
c. motor energies produced by muscular activity, or the Motor Centre;
d. emotional energies, associated with the Emotional Centre;
e. psychic energies, associated with the Intellectual Centre.
These energies relate to what we might call the more physical body. Yet other kinds of energy are also available to us, and we still perceive them through our bodies. We may feel the energy of loved ones, or feel that distant intentions support our lives. We may also discover that, when working at different levels of consciousness, such as Self-Consciousness, we can draw upon energies that are more spiritual than physical.
We therefore have different energetic levels, each with its own characteristic functioning. This is important for understanding what we need. An emotional need for energy may be met through appropriate actions, such as exchanging affection with another person. It cannot be satisfied by eating, which instead overloads the vegetative centre and can lead to discomfort and obesity.
What energies are released when we make art? What energetic needs does artistic activity fulfil? And what energies does a work of art convey to those who experience it?