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What is to follow is a compendium that has been culled from J BH Mareydt's journal and sketchbook notes. It is hoped that this will and offer a more insightful look behind the machinations and vital issues that concerned the artist and his work. His research and artwork dealt primarily and accorded with, a great deal of spiritual teachings and wisdom from various illuminated personages/traditions, as well as emerging facets of consciousness in the historical record. The artist himself had no pension for writing, and instead translated experience into the realm of visual artifacts. What follows may be seen as an artist's statement of sorts, dealing with recurrent thematic issues, or least an artistic laundry list, and is in no way definitive. Various notes and entries in no specific order; 1) Evolutionary Consciousness Agent 2) Action Item List
3) "Art as avant guard, art as leading edge, art as pointing to something you can't get out of conventional society, art as making statements, art as method-technique of growth..." K. Wilber 4) "Holons: wholes that are simultaneously parts of other wholes." "Thus 'all level, all quadrant' practice means exercising physical, emotional, mental and spiritual waves, in self, culture and nature."- K. Wilber 5) "Art as anti-environment becomes more than ever a means of training perception and judgment. For the artist makes models of problems and situations that have not yet emerged in the larger matrix of society. In their artistic play, they discover what is actually happening, and thus appear 'ahead of their time.' Non-artists always look at the present through the spectacles of the preceding age." - M. McLuhan 6) "The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of the new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness." -M. McLuhan 7) "Is the creative human being merely an instrument or a projection of the creative action of totality? Or does one act from one's own being independently? I suggest that this is a wrong question, as it presupposes a separation of the human being from the totality. A better question is: can we be free to participate in the creativity of the totality at the level appropriate to our potential? " -D. Bohm 8) "Absolute Non-Duality; that means that a gap would no longer exist between our deepest intentions, our higher motives and the life we living right now." -A. Cohen 9) 10001000101011110001100000111 10) "If one has a blunt instrument, one can't go deeply."- J. Krishnamurti
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JBH Mareydt | Xenos-Zen
JBH Mareydt’s art is enigmatic—and integrally so. His works are collage-like in composition, juxtaposing diverse imagery, while also incorporating a wide range of abstract idioms. Signification is generated in a manner not unlike that of dreams images as analyzed by Freud in Chapter 6 the Interpretation of Dreams—associations, displacements, and condensations. But unlike Surrealistic works, Mareydt’s art does not simply reference the individual or collective unconscious, but far more profoundly causal Source itself. This is an art that invites what we might call the Integral Unconscious of Spirit -- inclusive of the individual and the collective, all kinds of states, perspectives, and more—to come forward, from the unmanifest to the manifest, into more explicit Awareness; a coming forward of meaning and sense that can never be completed or exhausted, a profound and deeply meaningful art evincing the Unknowable that is Mystery itself. Michael Schwartz |
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