www.paradoxethereal.com Transcendental art movement that collects,distributes and expands philosophically the idea of “Romantic personality” by means of artistic creation. Created by Mary Vareli
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
--Oscar Wilde
"Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious."
-- C.G. Jung
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
--William Shakespeare
"Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail."
--John Donne
"Trovommi Amor del tutto disarmato..." (Love found me totally disarmed) --Petrarca
"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole -- such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life -- the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation."
-- M. P. Follett
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
-- Sylvia Plath
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear … as it is, infinite.”
-- William Blake
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
-- Angela Monet
”If you don’t know where you are going, any path will get you there. ”
— Lewis Carroll
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as our fate.
— Carl Jung
Mary Vareli : An apology to friends, for I had to hide my personal details and claim to be 77 years old, but I did it because I was receiving mesages/requests that had nothing to do with Paradox Ethereal... This page is only about art and music!
From my "9 Muses" series".This one is Terpsichore, the muse of dance. Inspired by “An ode to music” by James G. Percival
WHAT IS PARADOX ETHEREAL
Paradox Ethereal is a message in the bottle, an idea with a life of its own and a meeting point of artists that share creation and influences.
As the initiator of the group I admit I still haven't finished sharing what haunts me; after I finish I will start again... Paradox Ethereal is an idea I've always had, something like a memory, and everything in my life pointed at this direction...
The "paradox" and the "ethereal" are "two antithetical terms, a way of life that experiences and expresses both extremes until one reaches platonic synthesis and harmony. We remember what we create… inspiration pre-exists in archetypal form eager to be fulfilled.… Sentiment and imagination prevail..." (extract from the Manifesto of Paradox Ethereal.)
All works or art presented in Paradox Ethereal follow this concept, so some careful internal tourism took place, as well as some dreamwork and sharing.
Years ago I started a mind game… I displaced the supposed attributes of an idea or creature and I placed in the empty from impressions “description” some new attributes which had to do only with the “decisive moment” of each occurrence. This helped a lot as a new world emerged… this was more realistic…and healthy. So, applying this in photography/a piece of writing we stand in front of a human attitude that becomes so mechanical that the photographer/writer does not think when he shoots/writes as he masters and handles the change in his Neuro linguistic patters, meaning that he catches the "decisive moment" spontaneously and fast , and he or she is able to understand which images/ideas conveyed escape the social, pre-defined "attributes.
VIEW A SAMPLE OF MY PHOTOGRAPHY (use the +/- for slide show speed and scroll with the arrow to see full window, pointing you arrow on the images you can see their titles...what I had in mind while while shooting them.. )
The observing approach of a movement and its conveyed impression can both comprise a source of further inspiration. Only then can self- observation and purposeless pursuit alternate, only then may the utilization of one's eyes of the soul have an inverse proportion with the tendency to “alternate” With others, but never “mingle”.
Are we stripped bodies following parallel routes, are we any man confronted with the revelation of nature, our very own nature? or are we images dancing in the wind after having been worn to a shadow by ecstasy to such a degree that we have been transformed into a single archetypal figure that celebrates Creation? Time provides us with an answer; it eliminates everything in an unconceivable way, though its movement is perceived nostalgically, forbiddingly and linearly. And then we are metamorphosed. The three age brackets alternate? You wonder? What a primrose path it is to judge others or hide yourself, and how hard and difficult it is to learn how to cross an isolated street all by yourself being aware that none is watching you?
Who I'd like to meet: People with a keen interest in art, painting-literature-photography, and myhology or music who wish to share their work. Paradox Ethereal is a transcendental art movement that collects distributes and expands philosophically the idea of the “Romantic personality” by means of artistic creation (read my first blog submission concerning HOMO NEO ROMANTICUS).
The ones who share similar or identical opinionsare invited to join the group here:Site: www.paradoxethereal.com(select "New User")
- Where does inspiration come from?
Inspiration is found everywhere because it pre-exists. The more we develop our abilities the more we approach absolute inspiration and supreme creation. This is the place where artists elicit their topics from and this is where fairies following inspiration worm in our dreams…
The point of the emission of inspiration is crucial. This is where the secret lies. Human conscious mind cannot force hyper consciousness to execute its demands by means of an agonistic inspiration, since it is the reformation of influences and personal touch that takes a specific form as soon as harmony, the gift provided by hyper- consciousness, is infused. Humans, by means of their deeds, create the reception for inspiration. They are part of harmony since they have it intergraded deep inside.
DESCRIPTION: Video by Mary Vareli, Music by Fabio Keiner
BAD NEWS ON A DAY YOU ARE ALONE IN THE HOUSE
DESCRIPTION: a person receives bad news on a day he/she is alone. A description of feelings and a final resolution..Video by Mary Vareli, music by fabio keiner
GHOSTLY CHILDHOOD, REPETITIvE ADOLESCENCE
DESCRIPTION: No comments, Video by Mary Vareli music by tlom
A COMPANY OF FAIRIES
DESCRIPTION: A company of dancing fairies receives wisdom by trees. Video by Mary Vareli. Music by burzum
THE DEATH OF A FAIRYTALE
DESCRIPTION: Ironic homemade shot taking place on a chair. A girl is dreaming of becoming a fairy but she gets attacked by reality and dies. (video and music by Mary Vareli )
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SUNDAY NIGHT
DESCRIPTION: Night ride and stroll in Athens on a Sunday night..Video by Mary Vareli, music by Malory ("sunday night")
BAD SHARK
DESCRIPTION:Plz do not paricipate in eating sharks... Video by Mary Vareli, music by Front 242, "strobe".
1. Tears flow from your small eyes during a nightly bedtime reading of Three Little Pigs. 2. A small curly tail is growing at the top of your tailbone. 3. When called to dinner, you head directly to the trough in the backyard. 4. Your thumbs and big toes are missing. 5. You apply mud instead of suntan lotion on a sunny day. 6. You develop a liking for truffles. 7. At each meal you literally lick your plate clean. 8. You emit short snorts between sentences. 9. When friends visit you, they remark, “Man, this place is a pigsty!” 10. Fever accompanied by the smell of bacon
Κυκλοφορεί στην Αθήνα το νέο SONIK με εξώφυλλο Sonic Youth και -για πρώτη φορά- με
2 super δώρα! Το πρώτο
είναι ένα αποκλειστικό βινύλιο Kid Loco,
και το δεύτερο και ακόμα πιο ενδιαφέρον, είναι το cd με τα group του Coca Cola Soundwave Volume 3, ενός θεσμού που
φαίνεται ότι διανύει την κορυφαία φάση του καλλιτεχνικά, αλλά και εμπορικά,
αφού την 1η Ιουλίου -στα πλαίσιά του- διοργανώνεται το κορυφαιο event του καλοκαιριού και
μάλιστα με απίστευτα χαμηλά τιμή εισόδου. Στο Sonik μπορείτε να διαβάσετε τις λεπτομέρειες…
PS: Sorry if you've already received this... with over 20,000 friends, its kinda hard to keep track!!! Nevertheless we'll do our best to keep our friends informed :D
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FatalObject est un projet de cœur né de l’association de plusieurs personnes désireuses de supporter des artistes aux influences musicales multiples. Projet de label indépendant, FatalObject a pour but de permettre à des artistes de s'autoproduire et de se promouvoir.
FatalObject is a project of heart, arisen from the association of several persons avid to support artists in the multiple musical influences. As an independent label, FatalObject aims at allowing artists of selfproduction and promotion.
MY MSN: paradoxethereal@yahoo.com
Films of Maya Derren, Brothers Quay and Aris Michalopoulos and a lot more! Experimentation thrills me!
