Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

9 Jul 2021

Art In the Noosphere

by markart | posted in: ebooks, Film Development, Inspirational, Making Art, Recommended Books, The Artist's Life, Visual Arts | 0

Usually, after completing an arduous work of art, I experience an emptiness. This is often a period of wandering grappling with questions like “What else can I say? What else can I try? Why write and make art? Who cares?” — remnant thoughts from humanity’s long history of self-focus. Lately I’ve been asking, “Why am I watching tutorials and learning new technology?”

27 Jan 2020

Dancing Daily Grows the New Creature

by markart | posted in: Books, Inspirational, Science, The Artist's Life | 0

I’m reading Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man (1955) in which he describes life transforming to more and more complexity and shows that life continues to grow beyond the outward form. As a prominent paleontologist and naturalist as well as Jesuit priest he believed life sciences should explore not only the outer forms – the skeletons that remain, the physical effects, the material world – but include the “within” – the imagination, consciousness, the spiritual.