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"By descending down into the depths of the soul, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Although space would not allow honorable mention of
everyone,
I am compelled
"I believe that paints and pigments can be approached as ritual objects, magical energetic substances, that we create a space for manifestation, we don't need to invent or devise from our minds. Painting or the ownership of them can be a meditative ritual, a ritual of affirmation and manifestation. When I am present with the actual reality of what I am doing, breathing, with a ritual object, my paint, paper or canvas in hand, only then am I clear what is before me. James e. Woody 2008
A collectors choice:
"For we live in the land of the living not on the streets of the forgotten, having done so much in so little time and learned the world is so big, we learn to treasure our inch of it". James e. Woody 1986
The Metamorphosis:
"Woody" a self taught
painter is
As you explore his artwork and writings you too may recognize how much his imagery reflects in pictorial forms some of the dynamics of transpersonal ecstatic states. Many of his paintings have been depicted as a birth passage from the confines of habituated and entrained thought patterns to a realm of numinous expansion. His paintings appear to align with the abundant, creative, exciting unfolding universe of experience and form. "Woody" is a learner of all things beautiful and he hopes and even expects that Transpersonal art will be the cutting edge for changes in our culture, social and political spheres.
"As for me, Transpersonal art allows for a look beyond my personality.
Woody is on a mission to demystify the
concept of transpersonal experiences. He believes,
it is only when one surrenders the over-managing, controlling, devising
mind that something greater is manifest
"Woody" began writing his manifesto on transpersonal art in 1988 while still a partner in CR2, a corporate communications firm, located in Rochester, NY. His concepts during those days had derived from the school of Renaissance humanism and derivatives of the Futurist and DADA art movements. His goal was to interject the market with a new definition of "corporate art" as an adjective rather than a noun. It was during those years, CR2's helped to birth and redefine "corporate art" within the context of functional works designed to document the evolutionary process of mans relationship to this technologies who's role as art is to "sensitive" the populist to innovations within the technology sector. "Woody" continues to promote the concept of art as healing in his personal artwork, as demonstrated with in these online galleries.
I only ask of myself to take the space-time to dwell with the work in its such-ness, making every part of the process a trance inducing play, rather than racing to a foregone conclusion that I hold somewhere in my head. It's the difference between goal-orientated behavior, contrasted to the attitude of appreciating every phase, every process as an end in itself. Because, no part of life or art should be merely rushing from A to Z without appreciating the journey in its fullness along the way. Every moment is complete in itself. With art and life, there is space and opportunity at every phase for invention". James e. Woody 2009
Like many of the nameless ones that proceeded him, "Woody" has lived most of his life outside the "box" and many of his contributions have remained a secret to most. Yet above all that he may appear to be, he is an artist, a solution-oriented problem solver; a seeker of answers to the mystery of the transformative process of growth and the metamorphosis of the world of human experiences, consciousness, and spirit. He is a humble man of considerable intellectual curiosity who ranges wide in his reading and thinking, a thinker who plumbs a world of ideas found in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and ancient cultures, mythology, and literature to find inspiration for his work. Many consider him a seeker of answers to the mystery of the transformative process of growth and metamorphosis, seeking to give visual expression to his concepts. He employs the sources and principals of Transpersonal art and design psychology into the creation of his most unique paintings and regenerates an ability to manifest and create a portal for spiritual representations to make their way into the sensory realm for the eye to perceive as each viewer is challenged to remember their personal redeeming and mythical "inner life".
As founder of the Be Sensitive Studio,
"Woody" continues to promote
the
Be Sensitive Network and the first global Be Sensitive
Humanitarian Day (Nov 1st 2010). Both of which
originated out of his desire to help bring public awareness of the financial challenges of charitable
organizations and provide funding for nonprofit
organizations who are bring solutions to many of humanities challenges. Woody
Ann Reade-Moore
gp2@besensitive.com
561.948.4091
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