#transcendentalism
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
More on contemplative ecology from Thoreau→
↝ https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/walden-pond.html ↜
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清浄暫しとどむ by Yuri Yorozuna
Among the forerunners of Transcendentalism, a movement according to which the divine pervades all of humanity and nature alike, 19th century philosopher-poet and woodsman-ecologist Henry David Thoreau left behind a vital contemplative legacy resembling the intensive retreats undertaken by Buddhist meditators.
Continued→https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/walden-pond.html
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Lars Physant (65 today) is a Danish artist who works out a of Naturalist tradition but spikes it up with what he has dubbed multiversal realism, seeing the object, whether a landscape or a portrait, from several angles simultaneously.
Physant is autodidact as an artist, and has lived and worked in Spain for decades. He is mainly known for his portraits of members of the Danish Royal House, but I prefer his more spiritual work and transcendental landscapes.
Above:Transcendens(Vindensfarve), 2014 - oil on canvas
“In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.”
Sappho
