Creative Spirituality Discussion

I have always believes that meditation is an important aspect of art. As Shahzia Sikander points out that it is important to keep “respective for tradition and respect for tradition” in the field of creativity, she thus implies the meditation needed for such work. Furthermore, Sikander art is mostly based on traditional values of both Muslim and Hindu Community. This was mostly shown in her paintings of the Indian goddess with the veil used to cover her face. The abstract knowledge of Sikander art is basically based on her personal belief and memorize. Thus, in this respect she uses the spirituality of both religion (Hindu and Muslim) and personal values in her artwork. Examples of these can be seen in the painting in which she uses the letters of the Quran to make meaningful art.

James Turrell showed another aspect of spirituality as he shows the aspect of spirituality that is associated with light and how this tells us our place in the universe. As he uses the crater as a place to observe the light from the moon, sun and stars he points out how with such view we can see that out notions about the universe is wrong that the sun does not rise from the east and sents in the west as it is us who is actually moving but due to the really slow speed of the earths movement we do not actually notice us moving. Thus, Turrell connects the idea of inner peace and spirituality with light as in order to gain inner peace or to mediate one must sit under the bright light of nature or the light of cosmos in order to attain spiritual peace. The Roden Crater project by James Turrell was in order to bring the cosmos closer to better attain the spiritual peace from Cosmos light.

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