Wanli Reflections – To Awaken a Sunken Soul
Today I worked half the day on the Wanli painting. The forms are set, though the soul of the piece has yet to awaken. The challenge is not only in finding the right colors — they, like truth, seem to hide at a distance — but in finding the right spirit to meet the work.
Something within resists. I realize I have rarely painted to anyone’s theme or under anyone’s direction. My art has always been an unfolding of the moment, guided by intuition rather than instruction. Perhaps that is why I find it hard to fully enter this one — it was born not of inspiration but of obligation, encouraged by my daughter and a lingering sense of commitment to a friend with whom my relationship has soured.
It reminds me of what one of my secondary school art teachers once said, after flipping through my sketchbook when I returned from the United States: “You are not an artist.” He never told me what I was, and I carried that wound for years. But today I understand. Art, for me, was never meant to be a profession or a ladder to fame — it is a tool of expression, a language for the ineffable. I draw and paint when I feel called to, not to impress or prove, but to free myself from boundaries — to manifest what my mind cannot speak in words.
So perhaps the real work today is not the painting itself, but the clearing of this inner fog. The brush will move again when the heart is ready — not out of duty, but out of truth.
Postscript – Quantum Visualization in Art
In the larger context of Quantum Art, this moment of hesitation holds its own revelation. The struggle between inspiration and obligation reflects the tension between the observer and the observed. When I paint out of duty, I separate myself from the act; when I paint from presence, I dissolve into it.
In the quantum field, intention, awareness, and manifestation are inseparable — the painting exists in potential the moment it is conceived. Yet, it awaits coherence — the moment when mind, heart, and hand align. The brush, the canvas, and I are merely different expressions of the same vibration.
Art then ceases to be a product of will and becomes a manifestation of being — a movement through which consciousness explores itself in color, line, and form. This is where Quantum Visualization becomes Quantum Creation: when the artist becomes transparent, and the act itself is the meditation.
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