aaron jell
    
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I believe that the Arts are connected, that each creative discipline, each different mental and physical faculty required, overlap and complement one other.  Perhaps Art and Life are also connected in this way.

In practise this lofty ideal means simply that my priority lies in clear communication and connection with people.  A value that continues to serve my work whether commercial or avant garde.  

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After all, Life is expressed in the same forms as Art; image, object, word, action, sound. Five creative manifestations of the unseen aspects of existence.

Perhaps the best creations are unseen, un-manifested. Unspoken, unpainted, lying underneath our artistic endeavours, weaving through Life like ever-illusive enlightenment, a never-ending meditation.

To meditate is to lose yourself in a mundane, repetitive task so that your subconscious may explore and express the spiritual. Perhaps this is why I gain so much from the mundane tasks, places and things of everyday life. Why I find more Art in the debris on the street than in the gallery. More meaning, more reality, more truth. But, then again possibly Gandhi said, the greatest meditation is a good curry.

Escape from the mundane for a moment.

My creativity is as much about celebrating everyday life as about transcending the Everyday and seeking new meaning each day, sharing something new or remembering the old in new ways.

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(c) aaron peter jell, 2009.