Noumenal Field

The Swirling Psyche of the Land

April 7, 2009 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd Field with Horses’ Manes, 2009 Acrylic, ink and coloured pencil on paper, 66 x 50 cm From David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous (page 237): …mind as Wind is a property of the encompassing world, in which humans – like all other beings – participate. One’s individual awareness, the sense of a [...]

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Two drawings – cellular vessels

March 15, 2009 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd Two drawings – cellular vessels pen and coloured pencil on paper each 16 x 17 cm, 2009

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Meaning and neurophysiology

January 26, 2009 Art+Psyche

Polanyi’s book Meaning has continued to play on my mind since recently making a little book of drawings and my recent post The Lost Power of an Explicated Metaphor. Specifically, it’s his examples of skills that require a number of levels that have stayed with me (these he presents as indicators of how the mind-body [...]

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Three configurations of the noumenal

December 17, 2008 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd Three configurations of the noumenal pen and coloured pencil on paper each 16 x 17 cm, 2008

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View of the noumenal

December 17, 2008 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd View of the noumenal pen on paper 27 x 19 cm, 2008

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Recent painting

November 16, 2008 Art+Psyche

Here’s another little work that arises from my interest in the noumenal and its place in psychotherapeutic practice. Where is the place we can feel our completeness, can feel a “perfection” that is just as it is, without the need for strategy? Where there is a complete acceptance of ourselves as an arising from the [...]

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Sam Byrne – Our ancestors the cave dwellers

November 16, 2008 Art+Psyche

Here’s a nice work by Sam Byrne, one of Australia’s bush (folk) painters from the Silver City (Broken Hill). It’s a work that explores his ideas of the origins of humanity, and is currently at Eva Breuer in Sydney. Sam Byrne (1883-1978) Our Ancestors the Cave Dwellers oil on masonite 63 x 120 cm Byrne [...]

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Emily Pothast – We are you when you are dead

November 5, 2008 Art+Psyche

Emily Pothast We Are You When You Are Dead Collage and coloured pencil on paper, 2008 16-1/2 x 6 inches Here’s a lovely and enigmatically titled work by Emily Pothast that has more than a hint of the alchemical, and for me also a strong sense of Gestalt. Note the association with the tree of [...]

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Monteluco and the noumenal

August 3, 2008 Art+Psyche

We passed through Monteluco (lucus, Latin, a dark forest or grove) on our recent hiking trip in Umbria, and for me, in this place, the noumenal was tangible. This first image is taken on approach to the Convento San Francesco. (St Francis founded a convent here in 1218.) You can see part of the sacred [...]

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aortic song and no place for eyes

May 25, 2008 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd aortic song linocut, collage 2008, 31 x 27 cm no place for eyes tonight cool wind breathes over the softblack field – from the field’s heart the fruitbat cries short notes

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