Facets of a Diamond – Blog

To make the unconscious conscious is the role of all creativity. And the creativity is capitalized – Creativity – when it comes not from the merely superficial unconscious, but from the Deep Unconscious, the Soul.

Did the canvas like what he was doing to it?
Did it smile back to him – gratefully?

I photograph a tree, a shop – whatever.
And ask if it’s smiling back to me.
Is it saying “Thank you” – as I am?

Artists often declare that their work comes from their unconscious. That’s an ego-proclamation, of which they are proud.

But, unlike them, there are painters – never artists – who are led to believe that the work seemingly by them is really merely through them. And they bow before it in

The more the viewer regards the painting as being Inspired, the greater will be its Emanation.

A healer can’t be an author-type, for then his primary purpose would be his self-promotion.

I call him not a healer, but a dealer.

I do some drippings and flingings which vaguely – very vaguely – resemble Jackson Pollock’s.

One of our many differences is that I leave considerable space, whereas he fills every inch of his canvas. Too much, I think. No plains, all mountains. Nowhere to relax and breathe.

Every inch is filled – is wondrously full, but there

Blake was constrained by time and place to be a miniaturist. What would he have done as a Pollock – his hand as free as his Spirit?

Blake wrote of seeing “not with but through the eye.”

And that is how I look at every sufferer. From my Deep Self through my eye, then into and through his eye to his Deep Self. By this process I Know his Soul. And that he may through his

“[A] happy Abstract, known by all his Friends as the most innocent forgetter of his own Interests.” 

— Blake writing of his young friend Johnny Johnson

A happy Abstract – what a wonderful phrase for an altruist!