Daria
Deshuk 
Hamptons Fine Art magazine on my mind.
I Am That:Talks with Sri Nisargadatta
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be."
Daria Deshuk Musing on Grace Roselli's - new work 09
And Reading Ken Wilber A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERTHING
From the album: "new work 09" by Grace Roselli
I was fascinated to see the recent artwork of Grace Roselli, renewing a friendship
via Face Book. When I first saw it, I was
mused by the street culture and mark-making
she used in the drawings, spray paint, collage
and mixed media, inspiring me and my own
art making.
My continued interests questioned the
Subject, the culture and worldview! Yes these
Images are reminiscent of what I know of
The artist, living in NYC lower East Side
And its explosive street life, a fantastical
environment where graffiti art was everywhere.
I understood her choice of subject depicting
Women in her art, and acknowledgement of
female empowerment movements of the time . I too was
a part of this energy. Remember the power
suit, the birth of the Guerrilla Girls, a collective
awakening of the goddess, and the pop idol;
Madonna? just to note. Yet my questioning
continued. There was more going on than
the contemporary view I knew. There was
something that felt foreign and mystical, not
of my world or the street’s of NYC alone.
As I started reading The History of
Everything (A description of the path
of human development-the evolution of
consciousness) by Ken Wilber (Shambhala).
my mind expanded to understand both Grace’s
artwork and Ken’s writing on integral life
principles and how they work . I began to understand Post modern theory in art and its need to address this evolution of conciseness and to create art that transcendence’s, presenting new images and visions.
As Ken stated “The ‘subject’ (artist) is
situated in its own contexts and currents of
its own development, its own history its own
evolution and the pictures it makes of the
world depend in a large measure not so much
on ‘the world’ as on this ‘history.’ ”
In his chapter The Great Post Modern
Revolution, he writes, “As the kosmos
comes to know itself, more fully different
worlds emerge. This revolution in human
understanding and “new paradigm” approaches
to knowledge. Is that different worldviews
create different worlds; they aren’t just the
same world seen differently.
Soon after Grace posted her recent
paintings on face book she also posted photos
that were fascinating and definitely not from
my world or the nyc environment I knew she lived in .
(From the album: “Mabrook
Ramadan” by Grace Roselli.)
In these photos grace posted we see her and her daughters
ridding camels, her children’s aunt in
a headscarf, a women in a hajab is in the
background of a photo of her daughter. A portrait of a women with Henna
hands of a grandmother holding her daughter,
the aunt is seen in a wedding dress too heavy for the
bride to walk in, so she is carried on a tray one of 10 dress we are told she will were that evening. .
By posting and
sharing these photos of her relationship to family and life in
Morocco and notes on its culture,
we are given information to reference Graces Art.
She creates a work that is mingled with self, family, culture and world view’s of women unique to her. Creating a work of Art layered in this meaning, Grace’s art goes beyond the representation paradigm “mirror
of nature” which fails to take into account the
self that is creating. And embeds her work with personal and subjective meaning creating a new and interesting image with multi levels of culture, from nyc lower east side to morocco and family life unique to her experience.
I now understood in Ken Wilber’s book about consciousness
Creating new worldviews and how this was very present in her ART.
“So the great postmodern discovery was
that neither the self nor the world is simply
pregiven, but rather they exist in contexts
and backgrounds that have a history and
development”
When we understand evolution
of conciseness in post modern mind,
through this quadrant of I, (I, space emotions
thoughts, )individual interior and insight .
WE, (WE, shared meaning relationships
mutual understanding) of her collective
interior.
IT, (IT culture time place ) ITS,(ITS world views ,cosmos) our worldview is being informed
at a deeper level and new perspective are born.
This recent perspective helps me to understand post modern theory and contempory art work to create new images and contents , that ask us to go deeply into the artist views and subsequently creating new and unique understandings of the artwork the artist and the world.
“The world view is the mind, the base is
the body, of spirit. These body minds evolve,
and bring forth new worlds in the process,
as spirit unfolds its own potential, a radiant
flower in Kosmic springs, and not so much
the big bang as the big bloom.
And at this stage of development the
world looks different because the world is
different - AND THERE IS THE GREAT
POSTMODERN REVELATION” FROM
A brief history of everything by Ken Wilber.
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Circa '89? Me as the poster child for a friend's Pakistani marriage service. The biz failed- mostly because the women applying had a higher degree of education than the men who applied. I forget who rejected who.
98?-Amal, my children's aunt. Amal wore a headscarf as a teen in Casablanca--not because she was that religious- but shy, did'nt want to draw attention to herself. When she moved to NYC in 2000, the scarf drew attention.
9/11 happens. The women in my household trade their headscarfs for ski caps because they feared retaliatory violence. Amal completely did away with the head covering.
AMAL
41" x 28" mixed media/ pape
KISS of the SPHINX (after von Stuck)
103" x 60" mixed media/ canvas
