Raymond M McCoy Artist statement
I've always had a passion for nature and have lived a spiritual life. The two have really become one over time. I can't help but think of the creative nature of the one who established life on this earth. So much life everywhere, over time, a cycle of life where one dies for another to live. Giving.
Within all of the natural life, giving becomes spirit. The Spirit of Life is the essence of a life of giving. It is alive, passing in,...
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I've always had a passion for nature and have lived a spiritual life. The two have really become one over time. I can't help but think of the creative nature of the one who established life on this earth. So much life everywhere, over time, a cycle of life where one dies for another to live. Giving.
Within all of the natural life, giving becomes spirit. The Spirit of Life is the essence of a life of giving. It is alive, passing in, around and through all who are aware of it. It has been said of the Spirit, “It is like the wind, we no not were it comes from nor where it goes, yet we see the evidence of it everywhere”. This Spirit of Life, this giving, isn't for the moment. As we become more aware of it's presence, it's passing, we appreciate more of what we are seeing. Because we only see in the present it becomes necessary to experience life at that higher spiritual plain, one that frees our inner spirit to become one with others and reveals the impact or consequences of the Spirit of Life as it transitions through time, a fleeting occurrence in space. With this concept in mind a New Vision has taken place within my work. To express this New Vision I employ camera techniques used during my career to establish motion and now, a representational view of the Spirit of Life, on a spiritual plain of seeing life within a two dimensional plain. It presents what we can't see from the past or in the future, yet it has had a profound effect on what we are seeing in the present moment. The highlights glowing, the shadows distorted, the motion of time revealed by movement during long exposures, transforming images and adding new mystery to a current reality. For this is the action of the Spirit of Life on each of us as we become more aware. As we seek and experience life on a higher spirit filled life we see so many things differently. My work presents not just the presence of the Spirit of Life, but also the spaces, the people and elements it has impacted and the manner of it's infusion of power into what we now see.
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