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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
Each brush stroke should be an expression of wakefulness, of consciousness.
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I've been thinking of this lately too. Someone told me to let my subconscious take over with my paintings, but I had to disagree. I think that really painting, like doing any form of art properly, comes from the beginnings of consciousness, a vision (with visual art) before it is explained by received symbols i.e words, pictures already in existance. I am not sure about the subconscious - is it only a Freudian idea or truly a human reality? And, in fact, it isn't really relevant at all because making a visual reality of a so-called subconscious idea takes it into the realm of consciousness. It's a bit like hypnotising yourself or drugging yourself, or even squinting to get a blurred and "more simple" idea of a subject. You're not going through the necessary mental struggle to achieve a real advancement.