Category: Resonance

07 Jun

Centropy Entropy The Cycle of Life

Cycles of integration and disintegration are shown in the work of Walter Russell working at the turn of the 20th Century.

Cosmology, physics and study of energy are just catching up with the ideas of Russell's work.  See images on my Pinterest 'Natural Science' board.

All nature has a feeling: Woods, fields, brooks

are life eternal: and in silence they

speak happiness beyond the reach of books;

There's nothing mortal in them; their decay

is the green life of change; to pass way

and come again in blooms revivified.

its birth was heaven, eternal in its stay,

and with the sun and moon shall still abide

beneath their day and night and heaven wide

~ John Clare 1793 -1864

TIME is an important consideration in appreciating the natural world.  Entropy (dissolution, disintegration) as reverse process of creation is just as interesting to the eye.  Inner structure is slowly revealed as layers fall away, following the initial growth pattern (bark images).  The effect of elements such as water on wood or stone create smooth curvatures of the original structure.

Attractive contrast of purple heather with dried wood.  The decaying tree blends with the environment as it disintegrates by layers, gradually revealing its structure.  Decay is always amidst the living nature, as the heather and ferns also decay to rust colour.  All the elements show the cycle of life.

Growth life of plants is centred in he light absorbing point at the top of the stalk - the uprising of water gives energy to develop the bud, increasing he toroidal energy which becomes the flower; mostly in a perfectly circular radiating form like stars.  The perfect flower receives light energy which is channeled into the vortex centre to form the seeds.  The diagram rings represent the dispersal of energy, while the flower decays, but the new seed of life has already been made in the crucible centre, turning into seed pods, a 'space ship' for the eventual dispersal into space of the seeds.

Crafts with Old Materials

Crafting of old into new appeals to my philosophy of no waste.  The manufacturing of things only to be discarded at an 'end life' time seems a waste, one which never occurs in nature.  Mass production has conditioned people to only want new things, but there can be value in the quality of time affecting something.  For that reason, I use all second hand furniture in my home and love to give wood a new life with a paint treatment and design decoration.

Life cycles in nature, discarded clothes (textiles) start a new life when combined with other discarded fabrics of good lasting quality.  Recycling and repairing of printed fabrics absorbs me because of the thrill of compiling complimentary colours and design in a new order, to create something I would never have thought of without the limitation or 'brief' found within the coordinations.  This gives me a skeletal framework for bespoke garment making, as well as a new inspiration for paintings on silk to add to the garment design.

09 Mar

Blake – Newton – Urizen

Science and Imagination

'The great French philosopher Voltaire would remark, we are all now disciples of Newton”.

They were all “asleep”, Blake gravely noted, "intent on reducing the divine relationships and character to straight lines, parabolas, and ratios".

Blake's image of Newton under the sea being the measuring architect, illustrates all that may be hidden from him, by using measuring alone.

Blake accepted the new science and cosmology discovered by Newton.  He even took lessons in mathematics; but thought the age of reason was being too rational, ignoring spiritual aspects of any collective consciousness carried through the ages, and was justifiably concerned it would lead to humanity's downfall.   He was probably one of the earliest psychological enquirers.  He knew life is far more than any restrictive organisation into lines and numbers,  to which purpose he created a character 'Urizen' to represent what he sees as the limitations of Newton.

Now a fourfold vision I see,
And a fourfold vision is given to me;
‘Tis fourfold in my supreme delight
And threefold in soft Beulah’s night
And twofold Always. May God us keep
From Single vision & Newton’s sleep!

William Blake, Extract from letter to Thomas Butts, 2nd October 1800

Physicist Werner Heisenberg quotes appear to correspond with Blake's idea of "Newton's sleep".

"The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct “actuality” of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however."

"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning"

Measuring in a traditional way won't get the answers at the atomic level.  Blake would have understood Heisenberg's insight to a 'method of questioning' [when only using reductionist materialist science].

Book:  'ETERNITY'S SUNRISE' by Leo Damrosch.   Chapter:  ATOMS AND VISIONARY INSIGHT

“Deduct from a rose its redness,” he wrote, “from a lily its whiteness, from a diamond its hardness, from a sponge its softness, from an oak its height, from a daisy its lowness, and rectify everything in nature as the philosophers do, and then we shall return to chaos.”        William BLAKE

This is very insightful about the identity and meaning of things.

Damrosch's quote from a modern science historian expresses how in the age of discovery it was feared harmony and creativity would suffer.  We now see in 2022 how this is happening with the march of technocracy.

Damrosch:  'Blake understood these implications and utterly despised them.'

The world that people had thought themselves living in [before empiricism] a world rich with colour and sound, redolent with fragrance, filled with gladness, love and beauty, speaking everywhere of purposive harmony and creative ideals - was now crowded into minute corners of the brains of scattered organic beings. The really important world outside was a world hard, cold, colourless, silent, and dead; a world of quantity, a world of mathematically computable motions in mechanical regularity.” '

Damrosch:  ''Newton wrote:

"God formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles,” which resemble each other just as much “as the sands on the shore.” Whenever we open our eyes, the stream of particles strikes our retinas and triggers signals in the brain."

In response to Newton's description of the matter, Blake had his own fascinating reasoning on energy and metaphysics.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.   

Blake was more a psychologist and spiritualist with a focus on consciousness.

[Add Links for this to his 4-fold story with Beulah etc.]

And every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine
Blown back they blind the mocking eye
But still in Israel’s paths they shine
The atoms of Democritus
And Newton’s particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore
Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright

Damrosch sees the poem as depicting a spiritual light force, rather than a 'hailstorm of particles'. 'He envokes a great symbolic story, the Exodus from bondage to freedom. The light that illuminates that journey is a spiritual force, not a hailstorm of  material particles'

Whilst Blake's Biblical analogy fits with his own preoccupation with Biblical illustrations, he may have had even more insightful vision beyond that simple poetic meaning; one of a future where reductionist science would dominate in a way which would divorce humanity from a spiritual or divine existence.

Now in 2022 [now 2023], we see that technology and pharmaceutical science have become reductionist, with no bars on  advances in genetic engineering, and when AI will control things, with NO humane feeling whatsoever.  An incidental fact is that many of the new science-tech and pharma-biotech companies are Jewish run or owned, which brings a heavy salience to a different reading we could impose on Blake's 'atoms of Democritus' and 'Newton's particles of light' being 'sands upon the red sea shore'.  In fact Netanahu contracted with Pfizer to use his entire population for data study, the majority of them being vaccinated against C.19.  Some times Blake's writing is almost like Nostradamus; and who can say whether there have not been people who could see the future.

Blake explained how spiritual light is not just a matter of material particles; that it was not correct to describe everything in reductionist form.  He welcomed the move away from religious orthodoxy, but did not want that to mean the loss of all meanings.  We cannot nowadays know exactly how the new 'scientific' mindset of 1700s was affecting people's outlook on their future; whether many were aware the direction science was taking.  We can though determine that Blake was a modern thinking man: he didn't need rigid church dogmas when he had his own spiritualist insights, akin to quantum physics, and much of his writing explored the psyche.

To see the world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

He may have been inspired by 17th century German mystic, Jacob Boehme, who wrote:

"When I take up a stone or clod of earth and look upon it, then I see that which is above and that which is below;  yea, I see the whole world therein.”

Eternity, likewise, is present in each moment of lived experience; it is the river of time in which we are continuously immersed. He coined a memorable term for it. “The Eternal Now”. [check quotes]

Eternity is in love with the productions of time

Blake - ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’.

Note:  Some writers of their day - thoughts on Newtonian Physics:

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.   

Alexander Pope

Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever

Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. 

William Wordsworth

Urizen misunderstood

To promote the Blake retrospective exhibition at the Tate in 2019, his last artwork was projected on the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral:  an image of 'creator God' but also man as 'Urizen' the measurer and controller of all things.  The latter seems fitting these days when all things; political health and media are under more and more control.  Visionary and prophetic Blake would be up in arms about how things are going today, and be saying 'I warned you..!'

Blake's outlook on the rationally measured world was a recurrent theme pursued in his character URIZEN until his death.  Even though science has advanced civilization by technology, in 2020's we see just how far 'rational' science has come, all the way to nuclear weapons, bioweapons and biotech modifications; towards the planned alteration of humans.  We can imagine Blake today would be ranting about biotechnology and technocracy.

Many inspiring articles on Blake in TheHumanDivine blog

05 Jul

Resonant Fractals

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Geometry is the Language of the Universe

Physics and ancient medicine point to the same fractal patterns in the universe. Resonance Talks video explains this in relation to the bioelectrical map, the nervous system; not only within the body but relating outwardly.  Speaker talks about tetrahedron formations.

Resonance Talks: Fractal Anatomy & a World of Health with Meredith Sands Keator.

Spiral Compression in Mathematics and Nature

Image credit: quantamagazine.org (see related sphere)

Physics mathematics shows a sphere can be compressed to a point through spiralling.  Above image shows enlarged surface area of a sphere in twisting corrugation.

Orbital  Planetary  Spirals

The Connected Universe, Official Trailer 2016 [FIND MISSING]

Spiral Suspension

A tight spiral, by virtue of its extension potential, carries good strength in the case of this cucumber tendril support.  Its very strong, when pulled, as a metal spring would be, to hold the heavy cucumbers along the stalk.  I originally gave the shorter stalk some string support, hoping it would trail along the washing line, but it actually found very firm supports, as it might do in undergrowth.  Does it 'calculate' the strength needed in tendrils (spiral compression-elasticity) from the total area of light mass received in the leaf sizes?

Cucumber Intelligence - knows to increase the spiral strength, and therefore elasticity, to support the weight of 12 setting cucumbers - Nature's intelligence beyond 'Artificial Intelligence'

Fern Spirals

Nature proves the above mathematical spiral compression theory in reverse!  Ferns unfold from embedded spirals.  How do all those leaf parts get into such a small space? As the plant received the energy, or light, this ancient plant responds by unfolding, becoming a solar panel.

Seed Hubs in Spiral Form

Salsify flowers:  Even in the seed formation phase, spiralling can be seen on the remaining seed hub from where the seeds parachute from.  The indentations from where the parachute seeds develop shows clearly the spiral format.  (better in real life)  First the flower attracts lots of light to its stamen centre, then this is converted into seed formation.  Interestingly the Salsify flower closes every day at mid-day, with green sepals covering over closed.  Could it be it needs the remainder of the day to 'process' the light stored and convert to seed energy for the hub?

27 Apr

Resonant Ideas

Illustrations and designs are 'resonant' when they reflect a sublime order or understanding of nature and the cosmos which resonates with the observer.  There maybe aspects of geometry - colour - tone which can have similar effects as music or poetry, connecting human thoughts and emotions.

Photos will be added here when detected to have a certain resonance in line with above idea.

Art which connect ideas & meanings

Image of religious cross with circle pattern connects spirituality of wholeness.

The light behind, appearing as a glimpse, represents the light of the way of the gospels, and spiritual illumination.

Photographic observation connects resonance of meaning.

Tulip Sunset Silhouette

Flower silhouette resonates with Celtic cross image by way of its shape (circular with stem) and its background of sunset.

The Celtic circle is likely representing life from sun, as does the flower form which 'resonates'. People feel a poetic resonance in sunsets.

ILLUMINATION

Light pattern reflections on pond: a fantasy illusion created by water - light - plants.

Cosmic Patterns of Plants

My plant photography is drawn towards shapes reflecting aspects of the cosmos, such as stars or spirals, a resonance with universal nature.

Artists and Resonance

"Peace and Plenty and domestic happiness is the source of sublime art'"   ~ William Blake

 

William Blake was concerned with resonance; showing meaning through his poetry, illustrations and paintings.

Two aspects of Blake's concern - 'heaven and hell' - family happy lightness vs mankind's struggle.

'Teach These Souls to Fly' - A mother guides her baby to fly in lightness and happy colours.

'Second book of Urizen' - Blake's mythical figure Urizen from a series of related works, is always depicted as being part of the struggle of humanity, controlling, forcing things, working against harmony. In this painting he has a red orb which may signify the world on fire with wars, as Blake lived through the French Revolution and free America. More on Blake

The Value of Vision - Art for the people or as artist self indulgence

Popular, commercially viable art has to be valued by the majority of people. Most people want to see 'pleasant' 'nice', 'pretty' representations of the world, which is why nature photography is perennially popular; because nature always shows balance of design.  People also recognise emotional stories they can empathise with, so artists who can show this are respected.

Nature images please us by reminder of the natural world or of abstract ideas which portray a vision: then we might say by comparison that art which does not have an inspiration from 'beautiful vision' lacks a philosophy which might be important to communicate - and ultimately to enhance society in any era.

Art is made when the artist wishes to resonate with a perception he has.  We can ask if there can be a point at which such expression has little or no quality to resonate with viewers:  whether it is a 'good' or 'uplifting' visual experience, or mere subjective self indulgence. Art Nouveau, Pre Raphaelites, Romanticism and Impressionism depict uplifting images and scenes.   Surrealism and some Abstract Expressionist painting expressed 'angst'. [Ernst war, Kooning women]

All art is a synthetic representation of life experience, as seen or felt by the artist.  However, if we hold that art with a powerful resonance to move people inspirationally is beneficial to society, then we can suggest that 'Synthetic' art may be considered as having been made with no real 'vision' to resonate inspiringly with others.

With some art the meaning becomes confused, obfuscated or meaningless; nowadays seen in 'synthetic' art. [link]  Postmodernism has had a strange influence on art which has come to light in exhibitions and public sculpture, where it has become more concerned with political agendas and nihilism.  In an era where we do not experience war first hand, people seem to invent their own persecutions as victims.

Photographs can be purchased in full size resolution and up to 55 inches wide. Please enquire amelia-jane-hoskins@protonmail.com (To be marketed in future when paper/material decided). Mural commissions taken for any image, or adaptation thereof.