The act of art-making as liturgical seems to hinge on humbleness; personal humility, humble materials, the humble loss of your self-image as an artist, humbly forgetting you are making art, humble mark-making as intuitive instead of deliberate. Deliberate precision is harmful but hovering just above unconscious movement of hand on materials, there is a sincere humble precision, your mind, heart, and soul are deeply somewhere else, lead there by the act of precise mark-making—this is genuine studio practice. In that state of unconscious making, you are the most aware of the Devine gift of Image-making. It is that carried away state that each artist longs to create in, the unconscious awareness of The Great Awareness.
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