🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION  Ed. No. 210

- "THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL PLAYING WITH MY HEART"*

[CLICK ON PIC TO SEE MORE LIFE DRAWINGS BY THIS ARTIST]

Title: Angel

Artist: Neville Williams / © Arts Law Australia

Medium: Conté crayon on cartridge paper

Size: 84cm H x 59cm W

POA

HEAVEN IS ONLY AN ANGEL AWAY

Recently there was an outbreak to some degree of Media hysteria when a key individual resigned from an AI pioneering company citing that within 10 years AI could destroy us all. 

“The Terminator” storyline in real time. Something to be taken seriously.

Nothing surprises now with the depths to which our human blindness, stooopidity and ignorance can plummet.

And it's not the AI that's the root of the problem it's the humans that are creating it and driving it and certain “no problem” profit thinking policy/lawmakers irresponsible 'laissez-faire' attitude about the whole matter. 

As a society we are now too much addicted to the idea of “half-baked” as being adequate. 

If you’re living with a mediocre or worse a dysfunctional life then the trouble for all of us is that it’s not only your life being impacted as a result. That is where our focus and seeking the accountability for all of the 'second-rate' should be directed. i.e. Us, individually. And who is going to address this if you don't?

But what is driving this need for AI?

Humans have built into our DNA a need to search and discover. 

So what are we looking to find so persistently with all of our invention and reinvention?

An empty hole needs to be filled. 

Doesn't it come down to a desperate need to find love, attention, recognition, praise, affirmation, validity or whatever word you want to use? Take your pick from the "feel good" dictionary. We may not identify it in this way. 

We might say we are trying to help build a better world. If only! 

Some might be doing it from the "right" place of an already earned full-fillment.

But watch out for those trying to do it for their Master of the Mind. It invariably all ends up pear shaped.

Those who are at the cutting edge of AI technology are no doubt incredibly intelligent individuals. But wisdom is another thing altogether. They are just as dumb as anyone else if they are working for their own ego. How many want to be “someone” but don’t understand their individual value when it comes to knowing and appreciating themselves without any need to prove they are superheroes or angels walking amongst us.

Too many in our world today are driven by this need for recognition, to be first, to win, to get their way, to be centre stage. And so many have made their mind their Master. A bad choice ultimately. To win and then realise you’ve lost and have taken a whole lot with you is not ground any of us want to stand on. 

Far better to lose and realise you’re actually winning by understanding and appreciating your real value to yourself and as a flow on to others. The later understanding would slow down our processes of change to what might be described as the sane, sensible way. A more considered, considerate and wholistic path forward.

It’s an understatement to say that life has so many paradoxes.

And talking about angels and paradoxes just recently by coincidence I have been reminded of four very dark movies where angels featured prominently in the storyline. These angels were anything but angelic. Some of them were amongst the most evil amongst us or alternatively were so unhappy or confused you wondered how they got their wings in the first place? 

The AI pioneers no doubt have their legions of loyal acolytes but if there is a real danger of AI getting out of control then the real hero angel is the whistleblower who is speaking out now.

We get caught up on our own set in stone programming, concepts and ideas that have been planted in us. The only measure of the true angels amongst us are those that are genuinely happy not ego driven AI wannabes. The latter mentioned are the 'artificial intelligence' amongst us. Find the real angels and you’ve found a conduit to your own heaven. 

And we're not going to find "it" unless we look for it. 

This requires digging deeper inside. - Neville Williams 

Here's some angel movies where the angels ain't so angelic. ... 

"Gabriel", "Legion", "The Prophecy Series", "Constantine". 

Then there's the "Weeping Angels" from BBCTV's "Dr. Who">>>

Nasty pieces of work them. 

Some more uplifting stories featuring angels include...

“It’s a wonderful life”, "Carousel" ,"Michael”, 

“Heaven Can Wait”, “Wings of Desire”.  - N.

* The song "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" 

was released in 1985 by the British pop duo Eurythmics 

(Annie Lennox and David Allan Stewart) from their album Be Yourself Tonight

Celebrate life!

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🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION  Ed. No. 209 - WISHIN' AND HOPIN' AND THINKIN' AND PRAYIN'

Detail from the artwork "Pippin's Poppies" (2021, Reworked 2026)

An artwork about taking time to smell the flowers.

Artist: Neville Williams / © Arts Law Australia

To read the story of this artwork 

and see more artworks by this artist go to:-

NevilleWilliamsArt

Recently I tapped into a TV series that ran very successfully a few years back.

It was received with glowing reviews and it is only just now that I took the time to look in on the lives of the villagers of "Broadchurch". (Network 10 streaming)

OMG

This is certainly a well written and produced piece of art right down to the careful visual framing of each scene. The series clearly didn't hide away from some of the hot button topics in our world of present. All told through the micro lens of the coastal village of "Broadchurch". 

All executed with great purpose.

Do these people know how to suffer or what?

But then I realised that this was only a reflection of the world that exists today.

Paedophilia, rape, sexism, pornography, grooming, suicide, deception, complexity, angst, misery, grief and all told so beautifully. And the writing really gets you thinking. 

The moral complexities and ambiguities here could light many a heated debate.

If you really listen to what the characters are saying you can hear what a very confused world we have created.

The message of the series (at least for me) was that we are all so looking for love in our lives but are making a great cock up of our world because we aren't finding it anywhere we are looking. This unfulfilled search for love festers into, well, to be blunt, a kind of evil.

The people here don't know who they are. And in not knowing who they are listen to the rubbish going on in their heads and then this manifests into warped actions that only brings about great heaps of shite.

Fascinating TV to watch but horrifying to be reminded that this is going on now in our world.

When we know ourselves isn't it reasonable to deduce that many of the problems will go away? Isn't it chill pill time where we might stop, take a break from our busyness and reflect a little on what we've become and what we want to be? Perhaps even make a plan to move forward!

The new reality is the same as the old reality in that we are all totally responsible for every thought, deed, action and choice in our own existence. Pointing at others and projecting the responsibility is now officially dead in the water as regards the new world we are being made to address. But we'll continue to try to get away with it and our separation from our own nature will continue to grind us down in the process.

Presently I am observing (from arm's distance) silly games that someone I know is caught up in. The behaviours of more than some of those involved could be made into a "Broadchurch" kind of drama. But the subjects here are chips on shoulders, resentments, jealousies, people minding other peoples business, miscommunication, no communication, fantasy notions of territorial entitlement, greed, inhumane treatments of others, inhumane treatment of self, game playing. The list goes on and on. This is shock and awe stuff and it is just peoples day to day lives. Soap Opera (some just wallow in it.)

This is the currency of what many human lives are today.

We can choose to sort ourselves out or no doubt nature will do its thing and deal with it all in its own tried and true way of cleaning up. And nature will win. That is only a statement of commonsense reality. If things are out of balance things in the natural course correct themselves.

What are people doing wasting the precious gift of their lives? Humans are tricking themselves into robbing ourselves of our own life experience. 

This is dumb. 

CHILL PILL TIME? - Neville Williams 

"Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'

Plannin' and dreamin' each night of his charms

That won't get you into his arms

So if you're lookin' to find love you can share

All you gotta do is hold him and kiss him and love him

And show him that you care..."

                                                                                 - Wishin' and hopin'

                                                                                                    Song by Dusty Springfield (1964)

                                                                                      Note: The 'him' is YOO. 

                                                                                            You've actually got to do something.

Celebrate life!

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