Alexander Nathan

(WHAT)

Mind/Body Felt Sense Art:Art where the viewer has to perceive (Body/Sight) and/or use intuition (Mind OR Body) to understand.Body feeling perception has been hidden, cleverly, in artwork over many years (I.e. Impressionism: through perception/reflection).
Adding the mind feeling to these concepts allows an additional dimension of feeling…
“3-D Impressionism”…

Engaging Intuition (the Mind) has also been a common practice for understanding personalities (i.e. ink blot personality tests) on the psychological approach.
In the future, my hope is to develop an art-form, that when viewed, allows the body to “complete the picture” through use of body feeling.
This would engage a specific emotion in the body, in the viewer, in the moment, without attaching past experiences.

(HOW)

Representing Mind/Body Felt Sense through Art:Throughout this process various mediums are experimented with to try to capture the amplifiers/contradictory feelings of the mind and body (see Emotion Chart Mind vs. Body).The Mind feeling is only present when Internal Security is strong.
Due to the significant amount of concentration required for visuals to appear, an extremely high level of safety is required in the body (or environment).External Scenes for both Mind/Body are rare and only occur when BOTH are safe/secure.

For Mind Sense Visuals, Internal Scenes, eyes closed/meditating; however, you are ignoring your other 5 senses (safety of environment is still important.) Body Feeling Internal Scenes: in progress. Body Feeling External Scenes: future

(WHY?)

Goals: Use art to share perception of mind-body felt sense in order to;

• Share my understanding/means for healing self-connection with others.(As I repair mine)
• Encourage expression of ALL feelings (Mind AND Body) and testing various mediums to capture the “feeling” (As I uncover and experience all my newly found ones.)
• Help provide a means for grounding to allow one to be present, in the moment, and fully feeling…Inside AND Outside (I am still practicing being present….instead of “arriving”)
• Encourage a safe space where ALL feelings are valid (let’s take a break from understanding/intent of others… everyone is right…or, they wouldn’t be doing it… )