Blog Posts - ARTIST - Eva Lewarne

EVOLUTION & GESTALT

7/15/2020

Even though we have all been weaned on Darwin's theory of evolution saying basically that humans began as a mineral, then emerged into plant life, after into an animal state and finally into being human, we don't really seem to grasp the full meaning of this. In Africa there appeared an animal that stood erect,used tools with care and began to speak. A new kind of species had evolved with a brain greater than any before it and a capacity for self-transformation.

The Climate Crisis on earth now has made us realize this fact again and suddenly we are jostled out of our delusional reality that humans are a walking machine-like brain, akin to God who can make human life comfortable by exploiting the earth and its resources. Comfortable for only the few lucky ones who got rich. We stopped being aware of how we evolved and where we are headed, namely back to the beginning gestalt of creation. We stopped the self-transformative process. We ripped ourselves away from the evolving life process and disconnected our brains from our bodies. We suddenly thought we were the kings of the universe, the creators of life and we are still trying to prove that by manipulating our DNA to design the next generation according to our limited understanding. And working our bodies in the gyms to look like the Hulk so we live longer. Because the brain as it turns out is very limited in the way we have been utilizing it, namely in self service and competition with each other and the Universe. The body is in fact our doorway to our connection with Spirit, but we are not interested, preferring to remain on the treadmill of our present false security of existence.

Now that the demise of the earth is a possibility, we suddenly realize how much more connected to life animals are than us, how we have veered off course in our evolution somewhere along the line. So we turn to worshipping animals and plants. Caring for them is great and important but worshipping them by buying ballet tutus for your dogs, all the while that we ignore dying and hungry children in our world and other continents is not going to save us.
We need to get back on the evolutionary train and restart our motors and think about what is the next possible step to take in our growth, what does Life require from us at this point?

We first ask ourselves these questions, then begin to realize we are not the end of the road for evolving no matter what brilliant technology we have invented to date. The next step in our evolution is to expand our brain sufficiently away from just information and data input to understanding our spiritual selves. I realize this is very inconvenient for Capitalism, but too bloody bad, that is where the evolution process is headed. So either you are on board developing compassion in this life or you are run over by the train.

REVOLUTION BY ART

7/9/2020

Born and raised in Poland and living in Canada a graduate of OCAD. I have received a Medal from France in a Painting Festival in Avignon. (Grand Prix). Photography is a second passion. Completed Digital Photography Certificate at George Brown College.The more I view our world the more politicized my art is getting. People are slowly losing their humanity as fear overwhelms them, they are afraid of Climate Change, losing their way of life, their money and as a result are hoarding it, instead of sharing for the good of the community and the whole, embarking on new ways of living in the world. Instead they are retreating into authoritarianism and fascism. The people in power don’t realize that the great divide between the poor and the rich will only result in a revolution.

And it is time to have a revolution in the world because we have become a culture of war, violence, greed and despair for the majority of people, the have-nots. The new revolution will not be achieved by any political parties or factions, it will be achieved by an about turn in the fascistic path we are presently headed in. Fascism needs war and it needs scapegoats to empower itself. These will eventually be found in minorities, and difference.

No one person or leader is the cause. They are the symptom of our present culture, the mirror. We should look deeply in it and decide to change our ways, our thinking, our actions before it is too late and we, like the comic roadrunner fall off the edge of the world because we forget to stop.

It is not too late, like there was a moment back in Germany when Hitler could have been stopped by bringing to bear just laws and holding him accountable to them. If we held all our citizens accountable, like Iceland did it's bankers, we could create a just and compassionate society.

Economics thinks only in one direction and we have to stop relying on what economists think because economics requires wars to continue towards its goal of financial success. We need economics to be replaced by "humanonics" and "earthonics" that place life above money.

We need to find our humanity again and our soul and learn to dance and sing in life and cherish the earth and animals and above all ourselves, each other. We are all alive and when one of us is suffering, or homeless or hungry, we all are whether we know it or not

We need to find a new way of functioning and sharing and cooperating in society that minimizes competition and fosters love for one another, that destroys classes and hierarchies and gives everyone a chance to be happy in their short lives. I know that sounds utopian and idealistic but all we need to do is get creative and try new ideas on and see where they lead.

Our anger and rage must be channelled in a positive direction one of creative action. First we look to ourselves, acknowledge what we feel, then come together to brainstorm a new way of being in this life, this earth, with each other.

We Are Nearing The Eleventh Hour

6/8/2020

There doesn’t seem to be any point in painting pretty pictures anymore, when humanity is on the cusp of annihilating itself. It seems that even the covid plague did not instil enough fear into our bosom to actually change our direction in regards to Mother Nature and the devastating way we have been treating her.

Artists who persist in losing themselves in pretty pictures are really ostriches hiding their heads in the sand while their whole backside lays exposed to the elements.

There have been many plagues and wars in history, but none as devastating as what is happening now at our own intelligent hands. While demonstrating our brilliant technological prowess in making humans comfortable in their homes and workplaces, helping them to amass money and endless stuff, and travel to the ends of the world, we have in fact destroyed life on earth, the very essence of what sustains us, air, water and food. Air is permanently polluted by cars and industry, animal factories torture the poor animals we then consume and chemical pesticides are sprayed by planes to all fields. I doubt organic farming near regular farms is truly free of them. The fish in the oceans and lakes are choking from our artificially produced toxins and thousand-year-old trees are crying out when axed.

As artists we are not innocent in this complicity with the naive assumption that if we create beauty (decoratively speaking) we are enriching people’s lives. But are we really? When all around us people, animals and plants are suffering, should we just bury ourselves in our canvasses and ignore the world?

Alas we can not return to life in caves and tents, but we can return to our spiritual source to discover what path we need to travel at this precarious juncture.

As artists we have an obligation to be aware of the injustices in the world and aid people in returning to their source for answers.

We need to get our heads out of the aesthetic sand and look reality in the face and act by showing it to others on our canvasses and screens and platforms. We are nearing the eleventh Hour.

For All The People That Resent Raising Their Children and Looking After Their Parents

5/26/2020

What do you think life is about, just being hedonistic? No, life is exactly about caring for each other. With some hedonistic pleasures thrown in. It is up to you to discover pleasure in all you do...the problem is that people think this life on earth is all there is as they are disenchanted with religions.They need to discover the spirit in their existence and sometimes pray to something greater than their egos is very helpful with that. Then you might discover that helping your parents and raising your children is the most meaningful things you can do with your life.

A Tidbit About Art

5/26/2020

I think that if you have graduated from a reputable art college you no longer need to fear doing technically correct art but you can let go and experiment, to keep reproducing same old pretty illustrations seems redundant unless of course that is what comes from you naturally...we as artists all have to find our style, the one that comes to you naturally. I have done realism, surrealism and abstract art and feel most at home with a funky combination of all three with a little humour thrown in. I do not feel compelled any longer to prove anything to anyone as an artist. Graduating from OCAD helped with that too...there are however artists who did not go to college but are naturally brilliant, but not that many. There are more immature artists among those that did not study art and although their work seems simplified it does not hit you as professional. For example a professional artist simplifying a woman's face is in a totally different league from an amateur, even if both add long eyelashes. The difference is in the placement of lines...a professional artist with experience will place those lines exactly where they should be to say the most and at the right angle...whereas the amateur will have them roaming all over the face because they don't understand the underlying structure of a face.
I strongly recommend studying anatomy and doing a lot of life drawing before attempting a face...

WOMEN CAN'T BE HEARD IF WE CAN'T BE SEEN

4/30/2020

Two Worlds is about the role of women in a patriarchal society. Woman in a man’s world faces unique difficulties in the work force and at home. Not to mention sexual assault and objectification. Following the Me Too movement, women’s equality has never been more relevant.

Two Worlds also symbolizes a life led between heaven and earth and the merging of those worlds. The merging of the profane and sacred; mundane and hallowed aspects of life; between humans as flies and buddhas.

It takes courage and tears to take up the challenge of struggling with these issues and not just giving in to a comfortable, ignorant existence.

ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH INDUSTRY

2/15/2020

"Freud once admitted in a letter to Jung that “psychoanalysis is essentially a cure through love.” Yet while many psychotherapists might privately agree that love has some kind of role in the healing process, the word “love” is curiously absent from most of the therapeutic literature. The same is true for the word “heart.” Not only is this term missing from the psychological literature, the tone of the literature itself also lacks heart.”

Psychiatrists have their diagnostic bible and a list of pharmaceuticals at their disposable, which they adhere to religiously and have no time for love, not even five minutes except to ask how the medication is doing. And if necessary writing another prescription. The psychiatric profession has been usurped into the capitalist industry of making money as their goal and not curing anyone. Big Pharma is in charge, conveniently for these "head doctors" who can charge much more a day to our Government if they see twenty patients instead of three. To properly establish a relationship and learn about a patient requires time for listening and a lot of compassionate caring. Psychiatrists are too important for that now. And if they practice psychoanalysis according to Freud and Jung they charge a king's ransom privately. Very few people can afford that kind of long term treatment.

Institutions like CAMH do nothing now but drug therapy and they don't even use Social Workers who often have the compassionate, loving personality needed to actually help mentally ill people. They used to twenty years ago, but now have decided it is a waste of money to actually help people suffering from depression and anxiety. CAMH is too busy looking at their bottomline as it becomes a corporation. And their investments and spending money instead on very high administration salaries, especially PR.

Behind every mentally ill person is a person who has suffered trauma and abuse and snapped, people are not born with an anxiety illness or depression, unless they have brain damage of some kind. But psychiatrists would like you to believe that so they can continue with their drug plans only and use enormous amounts of tax payers money on research that for the last 100 years has resulted in very little real knowledge on how the brain works and how to fix it.

Social Workers who once were the heart of treatment for mentally people, now are regulated to collecting data on people and feeding it to the big corporate machine of CAMH.

The government run by corporations does not care about this marginalized group; waiting lists for any kind of treatment is long and more and more people are becoming mentally ill in a society void of heart and soul, a society run by Big Banks; Big Pharma and the bottomline.

And in my opinion fixing society will fix the mental illness problem in the long run, because anyone who is not effected by how demoralized and sick our society is, is the one who is really ill, without heart.

Coven

1/14/2020

My recent painting "Coven" is about how people are forced to become alike when they join a group, or are inducted into a profession or religion or a political sect or material status. In some cases if they stick to their individuality they are harassed or even fired. Psychiatric labels add to the mix by pointing to similarities with people who are different yet share common attributes, so we have a coven of "challenged folks" or "autistic" children.

We live in a world of charmed circles, elites in-groups, or rejects of society like the homeless. Thus we don’t have to real see individuals in that group, or feel for them.

Originally the word coven described witches, women who exalted nature and believed in magic and were hung for it. They were not seen as individual women but an anti-religious cult, religions propagated by men. And we now see the result of maligning these women, eco failure en mass.

Our society wants to see groups and organize accordingly. Individuality is not allowed; too much bother to relate to a person at that level. It would require intimacy, compassion and interest, a coming out of our ego to really see another human being. A fear of being touched by another's view, a fear of the unravelling of one's fragile ego.

BASTARDIZATION OF BUDDHIST TEACHINGS IN THE WEST

1/5/2020

When I began studying Buddhism with a teacher, the first thing I heard was to stop striving for perfectionism and stop being proactive. These were very much values of the West.

Instead we were to love ourselves unconditionally with all our faults and we were to name them all. The goal being to let go of our identities we have imposed on ourself and being more and more authentic and spontaneous in our relationship with the world.

The New Age movement in the West managed to bastardize Buddhist's teachings to conform to their ideal of perfectionism and proactivity. So they have convinced people to do affirmations, a very proactive approach and be positive regardless of how they really feel and practice political correctness. Also they have even found a way to lay guilt trips on sick people by telling them it is all in the mind and obviously their mind is not functioning properly.

This is as far away as possible from Zen or other Buddhist practices...and the pathetic result is that young people are imprisoned within themselves and their lives more than ever before...and losing unconditional acceptance for their own flaws, because they are not allowed to admit to them, they are more intolerant and judgemental of others, thus losing empathy for the suffering of others. Which makes them egotistical navel gazers, happily relating to only machines.

Life is messy...machines are very orderly.

It is no wonder fascism is on the rise in the world.

THE WEST (NEW AGE) HAS TURNED MEDITATION INTO A SELF-MASTURBATORY USELESS ACT! YET ANOTHER DRUG FOR THE MASSES! YEAR 2020 MAKE IT A YEAR OF ACTION!

1/1/2020

"Science Has Proven That Group Meditation Literally Changes The World" - Higher Perspective

So why is the world only getting worse I ask???

By their works you shall know them!

Maybe because people are so damn egotistical they don't realize that they can't change anything like that, only God can change the world with his thoughts and God-like people. People like Rumi, Jesus, Buddha and a few mystics could, There aren't any in our dark age, just charlatans.

It is easy to sit in meditation.

But not so easy to give a leg up to your fellow man in a real way. Never mind giving up greed and capitalism so others may live including the future generation, but offering a meal to the homeless, etc...fighting for them in a real way, protesting and bombarding governments with demands and writing to your reps...not just posting through FB...that is easy.. putting money where your mouth is...like Jane Fonda...getting out there…

Communing in meditation with God is good if you are not distorting what you are experiencing, which most people are, namely good feel semi sexual experience for prayer and communion with God...but that is nothing if we continue to pollute people's lives and the environment and the rich remain immune to the plight of the masses.

Meditating on your own is really only using meditation as a drug to make yourself feel good and delude yourself into thinking that you are helping the world. REAL meditation as practiced by people in the east takes a teacher and is VERY difficult, requiring much suffering and sacrifice on your part. The teacher is there to keep your ego in check and keep you humble. What we do on our own is NOT meditation it is self masturbation. And that is what the New Age has been, self-masturbating Capitalism.

The REAL kind of mediation makes you end up feeding the homeless.