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Apresentação dos meus novos trabalhos, Mostra dos novos trabalhos da Illustradora Benedita Feijo ,musica ao vivo, depois festa ate tarde. Nao é preciso trazer nada desta vez, vai haver muita cerveja (1 e) e cocktails (2e). Nao é preciso ficarem ca a noite toda, passa quando puderem e traz quem quiserem. Mais pessoas melhor, espero ver vos la : ) e por favor manda este convite a toda a gente que puderem, vamos fazer disto uma grande noite ; )

Rua da Picaria 36, salas 2-7

31 de Outubro

das 18:00 ate ……

MAPA

Presentation of my latest works, and the latest work of illustration artist Benedita Feijo, live music and then party till late. You don’t need to bring anything, there will be lot’s of beer (1e) and cocktails (2e), You don’t have to stay all night, just drop by whenever and bring whoever, the more the merrier: ) Oh! and please send this invitation out to anybody you think might be interested. Hope to see you there, I think it’s gonna be a good one ; )

jesper.

e-mail: jesperandersen.com@gmail.com

Tel:+351 91 250 15 35

I am worried. I am worried about division. There is division between people, between countries, within countries, between rich and poor, between those that think one way and those that think another way or believe a different dogma. But I believe all this division stems from the simple misconception that we see ourselves as separate from everyone else, separate from nature, separate from the whole. We see things divided. Division means separation, a separation of the whole. And a whole prefers to remain one, because that’s what defines it and if you divide it, it loses its meaning, it loses its being; its essence. For it is then no longer one but only fractions of what it used to be, communication between the parts ceases and the divide grows ever wider. There seems to have been created a division between people and nature. People no longer see themselves as part of nature, nor do they see nature as a part of themselves. I am not surprised that people feel this growing division given that we now live in a setting which is far removed from nature. We try to insulate and protect ourselves from nature, we live separate from nature; our food comes from supermarkets, our water out the tap. The closest we may get to nature in a city is an artificially created park, or even worse a zoo. There are two obvious culprits for this separation, one material and one religious. The religious reason is easy to see and is most probably, to a great degree anyhow, responsible for the material culprit. According to our predominant religions in the west, nature was made to serve us, we are supposed to be the masters of nature. A repercussion of this train of thought led people to view nature as something we should use to our advantage, and then we put a price tag on nature, which basically sealed her doom. The fact that we can make money from destroying nature is what has put us on the path we are now on. If you doubt this try to think of any situation that humans have created where the environment has been hurt or destroyed that didn’t involve money. There is none. We do not respond to nature, and we try to bend nature to our will. Nature is worth money and so we misuse and abuse her in order to turn a profit which we can then use to further the gap between us and her. Creating evermore division; this is a terrible way to think. Luckily people have started to realise the error in our ways and the tide is definitely turning. We are starting to realize that it is nature that keeps us alive, that we are part of her and that we should try to respect her and treat her as if she were part of us. Evolving with her and protecting her, rather than against her and destroying her. What better thing to do with your life than to create a condition, a situation where more life, of every kind, can flourish. To look at nature and see her as an extension of yourself and to project nothing but love towards her, because that’s what you would want for yourself.

The other division I want to talk about is between people and art. Just as we came from nature and so we are part of her, art came from us and so it is a part of us. Too many people I talk to say they know nothing about art and so feel that it is something apart from them, something they cannot understand and so not relate to or participate in. They are oblivious to the whole. This furthers the division, a division caused by a lack of understanding of oneself, and worst of all, a lack of belief in oneself. Seeing beauty in art is as innate in us as seeing beauty in nature. We find beautiful that which we know, that which we recognize. And we recognize beauty in nature, because, whether we know it or not, we are part of her and so we see ourselves in her. In the same way we should see beauty in art; if we realize that we are all one and so, that it came from us, it is a part of us, not separate from us.

Once again, money and the possibility to turn a profit has, I believe, created and evermore furthered this division. Galleries have become a standard and created and upheld the myth that any art worthy of the name must be in a gallery, and must be expensive! And to live up to this myth, which has taken on a life of its own, the galleries double, triple, quadruple the price, furthering the divide. People are so convinced they know nothing about art that anything they see outside a gallery they feel must not be as good, because if not surely it would be in a gallery, and it would be more expensive, wouldn’t it? People are so sucked into this lie that they doubt their own taste, their own intuition, in more ways than one. Either that; “I like it, but it’s not in a gallery, so my sense of taste is either not so well developed or I am simply ignorant and had better keep my opinions to myself, lest everyone should see my lack of knowledge.” And the converse is also true, that “anything that is in a gallery must be good, even if I don’t like it, because surely these people know what they are doing, it is their business and so they must know a lot more about it than me, and so I should take my sense of beauty, my sense of truth from what they tell me to think rather than from what I feel”. This is simply giving in to their way of thinking and as if that wasn’t bad enough, doubting and blocking your own intuition. Nothing is sadder and more damaging to the human spirit than a lack of belief in yourself and by default accepting the dogma of others. Art is pure and free from morals and judgment. It is, in its essence, a reflection of the human spirit, of consciousness. Art, like freedom of thought is of the people, and for the people. We need to free ourselves from our preconceptions, we can do this by looking not outwards, ever further away, towards the opinions of others. But by looking inwards, ever deeper into our own being, our own feelings and our own sense of how the world should be. To come to the realization that we are all, including nature, one consciousness. Evolving together, experiencing and learning from itself. We are a whole, and our consciousness is, in essence, these links that keep this whole unified. If we start to doubt ourselves these links will be broken and fragmentation is inevitable.