Ara Aylesworth

ARTIST STATEMENT

The beinghoods of concepts have real forms. In every culture we reproduce elemental shapes. Ideas are living creatures endowed with physical presence, locomotion, frequency, tangibility.

The work concerns itself with the creaturehood of concepts, sensations and experiences, with the shape of the pulses between form, language, gesture - the visceral, the translatable in the untranslatable.

COLD SWEAT

And sometimes while browsing for bronzy-balled beatitudes
I raised the parents of me
It was rearing randy wailers
But Ohhh, sometimes I wish I were an Image
Sitting in a form
By my stream of consciousness
I could choose to observe it or not to observe it
Could choose not to observe the observing of it
Could not choose to not observe the observing of
It not choosing
not losing
not trudging
not judging
not growing
not showing
not knowing
not dying
not trying
not believing
not perceiving
not seeing
not being
not calling
not falling
not rising
not sizing it up

ELEMENTS

That which arises out of the living reservoir is the source,
the true heart and the reality of the mind,
the original flow of the non-conditional spirit current.
The triangles of past, present and future are illusions circling attention.
Radiance stands as itself, being free of the I-self-Contracting Expansion,

Birth, Experience, Knowledge and Death, which are all Beings transcending.

SWIMMING PAST IT

Things I don't know:
Whether surviving is necessarily survival
Whether there is any honour in survival
Whether it matters
Whether matter matters
Whether anything matters
A thing I know:
Something Matters.

ELEMENTS

Process stands prior to what is given, understanding and releasing all things,
knowing itself by devouring itself radically and devotedly.