Art of Nature
Art as nature and nature as art
Nature, for a long time, has been a muse for the artist.
Even nature is art Herself.
Untouched by humans and purely beautiful. Nature is heavenly, as the idea of paradise is the remembering of blue, blue skies with dotting clouds. The gates are adorned with jasmine and rose. At the threshold, a mythic lote-tree in view. A taloned messenger motions the way in.
The Sistine Chapel replicates nature in it’s atmospheric ceilings. Monet’s Water Lilies reflect the flawlessness of a Parsian springscape. Mary Oliver’s poetry collection, Blue Horses, couples a spiritual experience with the natural world. Art is made of nature, preserved in village caves and fossilized on the grounds we walk. Nature is a work of art by unseen forces. Rebirthed in the form of a new species. Introduced again by another interpreter and remade as the relationship between artist and muse gets retold.
If you want in, you must transition your spirit into gold. This process is art. The transformative power of bringing two things, even opposing, together to create something new. Hopefully, something elegant and enduring.
In nature, we see this transformation of one life becoming another. A tadpole into a toad. A caterpillar into a moth. Fully fluid in the womb of the cocoon and freed by their own volition to become something greater than they can’t even totally fathom.
To be an artist, is to understand life in a primitive and sensory kind of intelligence, to interpret life in a universal mythic language with textures of our own lived experience. The way some people consume and regurgitate the world may not equally agree on the sophistication of what art represents or pick up on the subtleties that lay hidden in a masterpiece.
A good work of art is layered with meaning, intentional in design and multi-vantaged in composition. Often, we are attracted to high contrast works, exaggerated expressions and intricate penwork. It’s not unheard of to think artists have a flare for the dramatic. It neither has to be controversial or overly eccentric to be impactful, but rather emotionally mysticed, to leave us questioning our own lenses.
While we’ve been primed to trust our eyes, there’s another sense of reality we must lead with for our becoming - our intuition.
It is in our natural instincts to lead with our intuition. To hunt, gather, protect, celebrate and create with our intuitive powers.
It is the art of nature, it is part of our design to listen inward to manifest outward. Everything in existence is imbued with the sacred. Nothing is born an oddity, but an evolution. Nature enhances. Innovates. Diversifies.
What is it of nature that draws us to it? Is it that we are a part of it? A part of Her beauty and creation. A work of art.
It is of great importance to know your role as the audience to consciously receive.
Ready yourself to be guided by the artist’s performance through any emotions that may come up.
The audience must begin in silent meditation as a metaphorical bow of respect to the shaman who uses their creativity to channel the sacred messages of our collective consciousness.
To experience art is to glean into a mirror.
Is nature that mirror for us? Our forever muse? A shaman to the ethereal senses.
I think it is a beautiful mystery to seek oneself in nature. Art is the seeking of self in everything, in a way. To make a new revelation on how we are all a part of life’s natural evolution.
Love,
Mel
