NEW DIRECTION

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 88 - ON ENERGY

TIME FOR A POTENT STATEMENT

"HEPHAESTUS" Greek God of Fire (circa 1980's)

Artist: Neville Williams / Body Print: Shig

Size: 62cm W x 77cm H Approx

Media: Acrylic, body print and indelible ink on canvas

PRIVATE COLLECTION

Probably more so that any other artwork I have attempted

over my life as an artist this work best encapsulates "potent" energy.

I ask here in this article where did it all go?

A kind person from the other side of the world recently responded to one of my blog entries by sharing the wisdom that "Money is energy".

And this comment has stayed in my consciousness of late because I have no energy and have been mulling over the reasons for this.

Historically I have been a stereotypical artist regarding the use of money as a means to an end rather than an end in itself. I haven't chased money but running on empty hones the ability to see that money can buy a whole lot of things that can enable yoo to say what yoo want to say and do what yoo want to do.

May I restate something here that we all deep down already know. Money won't generally buy you peace of mind. It's not our saviour. It might buy a kind of surface happiness even physical comfort but that is not the deep peace and happiness we are programmed to seek out in our lives...

Rather, money all too often gives us a band aid, a "temporary fix of flight....over in a night".

Doesn't it come down simply to how we use it?

And frankly speaking the greedy are holding onto it too tightly or focussing on their own selfish pet projects - more so since Covid arrived. Mostly the bastards aren't sharing it around and that doesn't keep the world turning. But then would we know how to appreciate any sincere largesse by the monied anyway? Perhaps the wider population is just as narrow in outlook and greedy in other ways?

Further reflecting on the absence of energy I have been joking to friends that the Rainbow Community has an acronym *GLBTQIA+.

I now belong to the tail end group (A+) That stands for "Asexual+".

I mean where did all the energy go?

And this might not only be asked of myself. I ask it of the world we now inhabit.

Where did the passion go? Our world has become like a limp ~~lettuce~~ dick.

So many so guarded. Impotent of being able to do or say anything of real value and worth for fear of retribution or some other unsavoury consequence.

Too much fear.

The blow back effect is contributing to our leaders not saying and doing what is now so very necessary. That requires a certain courage. Is it because we have made ourselves so dependent on the material world for our sustenance that we have become weak?

There appears to be a drought of the soul in play.

It is manifesting in all walks of life.

As an example I sat in my Mother's Doctor's surgery the other day and what I saw was a kind of controlled chaos ... from all ... Doctors, nurses, patients, administrative staff.

The civility is starting to wear thin.

This was only confirmed with the front page headline in the following day's Sydney Morning Herald "Deluge of aged, sick 'a threat to system' ". How can we have let things come to this?

Our values are arse up!

We are all party to this dereliction of duty.

Somehow we are devolving into something lesser than what a human being is meant to be. There is a disconnect occurring. To give just another example of our humane disregard I'm really over peoples motivations in too muchie of everything being about what they can get out of any situation masked through a thinly stretched facade of bonhomie. Even in day to day conversation I note an increasing shortness in conversation and a need for people to talk about themselves without that much genuine interest in the other.

Is that because people are empty (or too full of the wrong stuff) and are in urgency seeking to be filled with the right stuff?

Earlier this year I put together the concept of the launch for a considered balanced vision for this Nation (Australia) and potentially something in which the world could participate. Yes it was an ambitious positive statement. Far too ambitious for me. I simply did not and do not have the steam required to get something like this up and happening. I even had by fortuitous happenstance the opportunity to speak with the Governor General of Australia (The King's representative in Australia) when she casually hopped on a bus and sat next to me recently. But I let it pass. Just too tired.

But then I didn't feel bad about letting this opportunity pass. It wasn't my place to interrupt her private space. Neither should we need to be relying on the King. Time we sorted out our own backyards ... across the planet. The big project interestingly starts with a small YOO.

It's up to ourselves to realise a vision forward. The King should be an invited guest by us.

That's the grown up way of doing things.

Humanity is due for some homework.

And it's not about changing the world.

It's about changing ourself.

We are intransigently addicted to looking after No. 1 and in the process completely forgetting No. 1.

Our ego self is not all of who we are.

I've never had trouble with the big picture only the entrenched small mindedness poisoning most every corner of our world. Big projects require big energy and a shared responsibility.

And I think that is why I am essentially now spent. I have put too much of myself out there. Time for me to withdraw majorly and to regenerate.

The message of our time as it always has been is what we are looking for is within inside each of us. We are just getting lost and making a mess of it looking for the answer unconsciously outside of ourselves.

At my own pace I am now making some beautiful artworks on the subject of 'home'. - Neville ☺︎

*GLBTQIA+ Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer-Intersex-Asexual+