Welcome to Unbound Art, Embracing Life

Welcome to our new blog Unbound Art, Embracing Life. Kim and Fernando will be posting images and observations created to share with you our longstanding exploration of the relationship between consciousness and life.

We clearly sense that the ground of human existence is not in personal consciousness, but in life as a whole.

Personal and tribal identity, which is based on exclusive memory and self-centered and provincial thought, has separated each one of us from most others and alienated the entire species from life. The consequences of this double separation have always been bad, and are becoming increasingly dangerous.

Our present levels of conflict in every sector and at every level of society, as well as the ecological consequences of our reckless exploitation of the biosphere, seems to be placing in jeopardy the very survival of our species. This danger and the urgent necessity for sanity it underlies, seems to be begging every concerned and sensitive human being to question whether there might be an entirely different mode of being in the world.

Is a radical integration with life and harmony with one another possible?

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

To Be or Not to Be...


There is the infinite dance of cosmic being, and within it, but largely unaware of its undifferentiated participation in the totality of existence, there is the personal human mind. This mind is insensitive to life as a whole because it is filled to the brim by the particular images and ideas that determine its sense of separate existence and generate the chaotic social reality created by its necessarily conflicted social relations. 

Hidden beneath the isolated superficiality of the experience-based personal psyche —that is, at the very core of mind itself—  awareness and the wholeness of being exist without distinction. However, at the superficial level of mind conditioned by personal and tribal experience and sustained by fear and desire, distinction is all there is. Distinction is, in fact, the life and essence of the self that deems itself separate and unique. Who would any one of us be be without the all-too common distinction between “you” and “me”; between “us” and “them”; between “me” and “myself"; and, more generally, between “me” and “not-me”? 

Life, the ever shifting movement of existence as a whole, is all-inclusive and therefore not “a thing” or a container of things. But personal self in order to exist and endure in its own self-reflective eyes ,  must be something, some “one”, somebody. It must also endlessly strive to be recognized by others as such within its particular cultural enclosure

The personal self is all about gradually evolving identity and the defense and projection of that identity, whereas life is  innocent of separation, and therefore anonymous. Which is why the separate and self-projecting self can never feel secure and at peace, much less survive a serious inquiry into itself and the truth of its participation in life.












Welcome to the new blog by Fernando Llosa and Kim Schrag.