Alan MacDonald
- Medium Type
- Laminated print
- Years
- 2011-ongoing
- Process
- Digital Illustration
Religion, science and art all have a tendency towards orthodoxy. Paradigm shifts come from those who exist outside the herd.
Quantum Creativity
Alan’s visual thesis on the purpose of original art making explores the difference between creative and reactive, herd memory and streaming from source informed by quantum physics and metaphysics.
Field Notes Of A Terranaut Wallbook part 1
An ongoing project, intended to be a digital book. An explanation for consciousness in current terms in a field note style. When an opportunity to exhibit arrives, I print out a wallbook. This allow viewers to make connections between ideas more quickly.
Field Notes Of A Terranaut Wallbook part 2
Chapter 2 in the graphic book, “Dream Seequence” is an ongoing project. Proposing that dreams are daily status reports from the non local field of consciousness, regarding one’s state of alignment with the source. Dream only seem weird as the local brain transceiver has to use a local symbol to interpret what happened in the night, non-locally.
This is the electrical / quantum age.
There is one pattern behind all creation.
As a metaphysical artist, I am concerned with a three-way comparison between: metaphysics (science of subject/why), Science of object (how), and information technology, the most important metaphor we have for the nature of consciousness.
Vedic philosophy, describes the three in one nature of consciousness; rishi, devata, chandas (knower, known, process of knowing).
Mind matter, information. I propose the internet is a reiteration of the 3(1C) notion; cloud, i-bods (us) and data flow – truth hidden in plain sight. Inspired by scientists/artists such as Michelangelo, I explore these connections in my field note style art.
My first career was graphic design with a parallel passion in metaphysics that introduced him to comparisons between Vedic philosophy and quantum physics as a describing system for existence.
Through a meditation organisation I was introduce to the notion of a source of thought/creative solutions. I became aware of two streams of thought, reactive and creative.
I learned to trust my intuition when designing for clients and expanded on the idea when creating and directing performances that required amateur performers to generate their own performances around a given framework that produced astonishing results. Success in attracting governmental and sponsorship support for Freedom Behind Bars, a meditation programme for corrections department prisoners encouraged my notion of a field of solutions that can be tapped into. Twelve years as an academic tertiary assistant introduced me to many disciplines from Architecture to Zoology from which I derived fundamental patterns.
A lecture on electrical systems generated an epiphany that remains the cornerstone of my art practice today. The notion of existence as a source generating infinite power, that flows through a circuit, resistors that generate various outcomes, to return to the source, fits perfectly with the Vedic notion of consciousness (subject realm) creating the object realm in order to know itself via a feedback system. Since graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Design and Visual arts, I exhibited paintings alongside my similarly inclined wife, before finding support from SciArt Center, NY, in the form of a virtual exhibition, magazine interview, and a pop up exhibition in December 02 2017.
Biography
Born in Scotland in 1956, Alan emigrated to New Zealand in 1962. His work is inspired by the merging of timeless metaphysics, quantum physics and the creative arts, enabled by the internet, that heralds a new paradigm in our understanding of Consciousness as the primary state of all existence. He is attempting to visualize the invisible, to create objects that in informs him about the one subject.