demystifying the mystical

"glimpses no. 29" conte + pastel on paper.

I've been reading a little book by a painter named Sam Scott. In an essay "radical astonishment" he suggests that what we call "mystical experience" is "nothing more than an encounter with that which actually is." So instead of treating the mystical as an encounter with "other" or something "outside" our life, we could say that the mystical arrives through a clear attentiveness to the world around us.

normalave.com review

MARK HORST PAINTINGS

July 9, 2014 | Art | Posted by Andrew

Mark Horst’s paintings are at once simple and complex, depicting images reminiscent of film or video stills, degraded by hand in the same way that photographic images would be degraded by time. Whether the work is drawn for photographic sources, or simply a reminder of our point-and-shoot lives, one can’t help but be drawn to the formal aspects of the work, especially with Horst’s diptychs, where the viewer is practically challenged to compare the minute differences in the two subjects.

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