ARTIST - Eva Lewarne
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​Many Strings

1/13/2021

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I was born in Poland and have lived half my life here, in Toronto. Both countries have influenced and shaped my art, for better or worse. But, mostly it has been introverted meditation and silence that gave birth to the images in my paintings, telling a story of my inner worlds.

Also I am a keen observer of life and people and have attempted to share my observations by painting mainly women. Many Strings symbolize our connectedness to all of life and each other. We can not exist as isolated beings, divorced from Nature or even ourselves. I am a seeker of what is real and true, even if ultimately it does not exist.

There is too much pretence and role playing in our worlds, false opinions that cause us to war with each other about who is right and which country and religion. In all this, love is lost. The heart has become a mere superficial iconic symbol on social media.
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I ask whether by clicking on countless hearts on the web we have become superficial and depthless humans, careless about the plight and suffering of our fellow men and women.
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​NEW PARADIGM FOR OUR ECONOMY

12/30/2020

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The American Dream has become a Nightmare. We need a new paradigm for our economy.

Lets talk about post corporate and extreme capitalism life. How can new companies actually look. They would be based on a cooperative model of profit sharing and decision making and co-creation.

I used to do creativity workshops in businesses and there is possible a different paradigm in business based on Generative rather than Consumption Oriented Community. Companies as arenas for creativity and cooperation with an organizational structure that eliminates hierarchy.

And establishes instead a collaborative process of problem-solving, goal setting, personal growth and profit sharing, and profits that come back to the company. Capitalism needs to change if we are to survive.
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The visible difference between the corporation of the future and its present-day counterpart will not be the products they make or the equipment they use but who will be working, how they will be working, why they will be working and what work will mean to them.
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Amorality in Our Times

12/25/2020

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Thinking about how our society, especially America has become so amoral in recent times, makes me realize that people are simply not spiritual and enlightened enough to live without religion. They need the laws to choose to do the right thing. But of course besides guidance and a certain safety that religion provides there is also the cult of the other, the different, which needs to to be vilified. So besides love, religion teaches hate.

Social media has become increasingly a new venue for amorality. For example before there were strip clubs that men occasionally attended but now porn is at the touch of your button with you every minute. It is much harder to fight temptation without external guidance and a belief in a Universe that does not condone porn...
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Maybe only a discovery of your own inner goodness and moral backbone is all there is for now.
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Art Ghettos

12/19/2020

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H​I read a while back, when Norval Morrisseau, who in the 90's was the only Canadian artist known in Paris, was told by the National Gallery when he tried to donate a work, that he should try the Heritage Museum. Norval Morrisseau responded with, "I'm not dead yet".

The white man's guilt for being racists and general schmucks towards black and indigenous people is now causing a backlash of what I think stupid decisions. The point is to open up the art venues in Canada to be more inclusive and accepting of black artists and indigenous artists and women (yes still women are way behind in being included).

Instead they are creating separate venues for black artists and separate again for indigenous artists. Nothing for women artists.
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What this will create is an art ghetto situation, where once again the art powers at be will only show male white artists and they will contimue to dominate, while the poor second cousins will continue to be poor. And racism will continue as is.
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Impermanence In Art

11/19/2020

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​I don't know about you but I paint over my paintings regularly as I just can't afford new canvasses everytime I have a new idea. Then I usually say goodbye to the old one and proceed.
It occurred to me that, that is what Tibetan Monks do when they make sand paintings. They work for days to make a beautiful mandala with coloured sand, then at the end blow it all away.
A reminder of impermanence of life as we know it.
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Friendly Pixels 1

11/9/2020

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In digital parlance, pixels come together to form an image on a screen.

By the same token quarks in life do the same as physics have proven. A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.. in other words we are all made up of quarks as is all living matter. According to the theory laid out by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, it's the physical proof of an invisible, universe-wide field that gave mass to all matter right after the Big Bang, forcing particles to coalesce into stars, planets etc.

Pixels are Machine made and quarks are Life made…

Digital art is made by machines and hand-made art by living humans, by their hand.
 
Art should be alive and therefore hand-made art has the potential to be alive to communicate feelings to the viewer through intuitive means. Digital art unfortunately only can communicate cerebrally, through thinking about an image. It is not alive. It is not capable of transmitting emotions.

Technology is fun and useful but lets not throw the baby out with the bath
water. Painting will always live and a Van Gogh seen live talks to your soul in a
way no digital print will ever be capable of.

My series speaks to these issues, both pixels and quarks…
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IS OUR SOCIETY MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION???

11/6/2020

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We have substituted FOOD FOR THE SOUL with FOOD FOR OUR GUT! The proof is in all the championing done in media and TV of celebrity chefs and 10 page spreads of recipes and people proudly identifying themselves as FOODIES.
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Yes cooking is also a creative endeavour and can be done in an artful way, but the end goal is still to satisfy the palette and the gut. Everything in life can be artfully done and everyone can be creative BUT only artist's goals are to uplift the soul, especially since formal religion is slowly decaying. Artists who were once celebrated in these same journals and media are now relegated to business course and wall decorations.

Our society has killed the soul by negligence and ignorance and thereby is killing art as well by supporting mickey mouse and pop art. Nothing remotely transcendent is being shown in galleries, unless it is being mocked.
We now worship not only money BUT our GUTS and possibly ABS as the proliferation of stuffy gyms takes over from walks in NATURE, where our souls could have been uplifted too.
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IS MORE EVER ENOUGH

10/10/2020

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Why is more always better, when it can never be enough?
Economic growth and technological advancement can be good means to accomplish something but when do they become obsessive tools for the power hungry scientists and techies and others. They are but security seeking measures because we humans aren't sure about our place in the cosmos.

And the more we have, the more anxious we become because deep down inside we know that is not really not what we are seeking. The more we rely on technology the more disconnected we become from the ecology of the natural world. Yes solar panels are good but in the end are they enough to assuage our feeling of separation from our place in the cosmos.

The ecological crisis is also a spiritual crisis. We have veered far away from our womb in our pursuit of power and control and in the end especially with facing a plague we have to realize that we are not in charge here and surrender to the natural order of things and accept our more minor role in the scheme of things than we would like to have. We are stewards of the earth and its master.
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Which Society Works?

10/10/2020

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I have given more thought to what kind of societal system would work best for people. Actually it is a very difficult discussion without discussing what kind of people would be in power. So far whether there is communism or capitalism the outcome seems to be the same because the people in power as individuals are cut from the same cloth namely possessing human foibles like greed, self-centredness and are motivated by individual egos. Even in communism that supposedly cares about the masses a black market usually is born because people want to get ahead as individual. It is still the problem of believing progress and evolution are inter-related, namely there is a food chain and each person wants to be at the top.

If people truly recognized that the world is a self evolving organic system that is constantly creating itself and all matter on it, and that we are inter-related in a horizontal fashion and not hierarchal; that humans are not here necessarily to be at the top of the food chain but maybe be in service to all of life, we would organize society in a much friendlier fashion for everyone.

We have reached a point where Darwin's theory wrongly interpreted is causing the demise of millions of species, plant and animal and now even human, because of our ego propensities towards wanting to be wealthy and comfortable at the expense of all other lives. Just because humans can create culture does not give them license to forget our origins. The Universe is self-creating and doesn't care about human's big brains...if in fact our brains create desolation on earth, we will be spun off this planet as quickly as we are killing other life forms.

So which society is best? The one that has truly enlightened leaders, and sometimes that is a lawyer, sometimes a poet and sometimes a drama teacher. Enlightenment is a process whereby a person understands the interdependence of life and is compassionate and is willing to fight all the egotists trying to bring him/her down!
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We Are Between Worlds

10/5/2020

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Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to our urban jungle became industrial selection in the pursuit of money and has produced Extreme Capitalism where we are directed only by self interest and our goal is to achieve happiness, as manifested by wealth. And those people who achieve wealth feel like they managed on their own to achieve life's goal. As Ayn Rand said (the prophet of the wealthy) that Capitalism and altruism are incompatible. Meaning we no longer have to care for others in our society.
 
Trump and others (Republicans and Conservatives) uphold this philosophy and that is why Trump did not bother much with Covid seeing it is part of the natural selection process. Yet knowing that if he contracted it he would be cared for by the best public institutions possible. He even went so far as to say he is God, meaning he can do what he likes in this life because there is no higher power beyond himself and no other life beyond this one. The religious group he belongs to is a play act to appease those with a conscience still and a networking device for himself and friends.

This philosophy is also why our ecology has been devastated. Robbing the earth is a natural outcome of Darwin's philosophy that man is the more evolved being and therefore has more rights to be comfortable, but really only the most select man, meaning the one willing to exploit others and everything in self interested pursuits.

Our awareness is changing due to many factors Climate Change, meditation and indigenous ancient teachings showing us that all life is sacred. That we are not individuals in this life but part of a living system connected to nature and to each other and the cosmos. Science has proven that butterflies in one part of the world behaving in a certain way can change the behaviour of butterflies in a very distant other part of the world. In other words we are in this life together. This is more in line with what the political Left believe.

We are at crossroads between an old world view and a new one for our lives, and  sitting on the fence can be a very painful experience. Especially when we try to figure out how to govern ourselves within in. 

So far feeding the poor is seen as a saintly pursuit and keeps the old world intact, but when people are now asking why there are the poor, the Capitalist system can easily come tumbling down.

The Conservatives and Republicans are trying so hard to keep the old world intact and yet look like they are making minor concessions. (telling people they will tax them less individually and save money for them? by cutting social services in society.)

We are at a stage where we know change needs to happen so there are no poor, where we can only be happy if our society is a happy one and yet it is difficult to make the choices necessary for this to happen. There is no way the super wealthy will give an inch by appealing to their morality, as they have already clothed themselves with religious institutions that offer them support in the belief they are chosen. 

So society needs to tax them sufficiently to make it happen, but they will evoke the military and police who are on their side as we see happening all over the world. Natural disasters don't even 
frighten them as we have seen in the US and here, into a moral stance in life. And I believe Nature will not ease up until we change sufficiently.

We need to make sure we have the right leaders at this juncture in history otherwise an apocalypse is eminent.


























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