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Bolinas Retreat -Spherism 2014-15

These paintings are all acrylic on canvas, using the vessels of Tantric Buddhism or Hindu iconography to illustrate all conceptions of the divine or mental constructs of transcendence are nonetheless vibrational in nature (ie: arising and passing away)

Happenings at the Berkeley Art Museum

I am in residence doing sound healings and making textiles and prints at THE POSSIBLE, an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum which re imagines the exhibition space as a production workshop for artists.

I have been doing several sound bowl events there (read more here: www.inpraiseofthevoid.tumblr.com)

As well as making limited edition prints in the print lab there:

...from the Tantra series...

I have been entranced by your artwork. Every word is to much and yet not enough. May I inquire how one might acquire one of your works in spherism? Thank you for the intense beauty of your vision. In Metta, Dannette

Many thanks! Happy to continue this conversation in private

oliverhere (at) gmail (dot) com

Spherism unplugged

www.inpraiseofthevoid.tumblr.com for more details

2013 Manifesto

Spherism as it stands 2013

Since introducing Spherism about 10 years ago into my art practice, I have used political/biological/esoteric/low brow consumer/high brow art history as my framework to demonstrate, using a visual language, how All is made up of vibrations, and how All can be reduced down to vibrations. Vibration; The great equalizer. Spanda; the doorway to the path to non-duality. The freedom that comes in understanding that all manifestations on the surface of the reality matrix we experience are essentially temporary waves of energy. From the box of takeout Popeyes fried chicken, to the Picasso painting. From the curve of the Fibbonacci spiral, to the structure of a micro/macro virus behavior. From the quark to the discoball.

And now, using Buddhist Tantric imagery as the visual framework in my latest series, I explore the symbols of love and compassion and divine union. Also, as part of my Spherism practice, I use Himalayan singing bowls to directly bring real vibrations into people’s energetic fields in order to move blocked energy. This spinning of a mallet against the rim of a bowl...this circumambulation…like a pilgrim around Arunachala in Tamil Nadu/Mt. Kailash in Tibet/the Kabba in Mecca, or a race car at the Indianapolis 500… this generation of energy through the circle...using friction to bring sound out of the void….a bowl…a sphere cut in half…A ripple on the surface of the water...concentric circles expanding into cymatic patterns and eventually dissolving back into stillness…they say the Buddha had a singing bowl, and the bowl itself was the teaching. The bowl itself. The something out of the nothing. This world vibrates around us. Our attitude emits a vibration, and the energetic grid work around us reverberates it and reflects it back…like an echo…like a halo…

Spherism aims to explain not just physical phenomena in a conceptual way, but also aims to create the impression that All is in a continuous state of emanation and dissolution, just like the thoughts arising and passing away on the field of your awareness. Spherism aims to give you more control of your life by activating your understanding of the subtle interactive nature of the reality around you based on the vibrations your emit.

Like separate ice sculptures carved in the form of flames, flowers, and food…they all can be melted down, merge, and return to their indistinguishable nature as water, and even disappear into mist. Like us all with in this billion light year long Unimultiverse, thinking we are so diverse and separate from the stars around us, yet we can all find unity with in our commonality as a temporary vibratory emanations. Does this not make you feel more compassion for everything, knowing that we are fundamentally the same? Awareness hosted with in quarks vibrating fast enough to give the appearance of being solid. But ultimately: awareness. Spherism is science with a heart. Spherism is mysticism in a wardrobe of art.

We are the One. The One that is the Everything, and simultaneously the nothing. We get to be the individual (self) as well as the total (SELF). The point of stillness, and the energy that dances around it. The lingam and the yoni. Shiva and Shakti. The method and the Wisdom. The Yin and the Yang. This Masculine and Feminine aspect is with in us all. Awareness (M) would have nothing to be aware of if it were not for Movement (F), and Movement would have nothing to observe it were it not for Awareness. This is the sacred union. This is the first duality. This is the big bang. This is the fountainhead of infinity…the colloidal particle building block, the tube torus that expands and collapses back into itself eternally within the black hole at the heart of every atom, to the black hole at the heart of every star system. It’s all so beautiful when you feel the big bang is eternally happening every moment with-in moment with-in moment…with-in your own body…your own awareness…

Spherism is a simple humble little art motif to tune you into the majesty and miraculous nature of the moment. It’s an answer but it’s also a question.

-Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, September 2013, Berlin

...new series underway

Working on a forthcoming book of images and poetry with my friend Eliza Bishop. Here is a work in progress.... The reference skull image is on the bottom, and the Spherism vibration version in progress is on the top. The reference will not be shown in the final version, this is only included here to give a process based snapshot to fans of this blog.

New Spherism series on the way

Spending more time in my life contemplating the interaction of the divine Feminine with the divine Masculine, and how their merging creates a unification of dissolution...all turning into vibrations arising and passing away. Using sacred Tibetan yab-yum imagery as the vessels for Spherism vibrations as the basis of this new series, I hope to release a collaborative book with yogini and poetess Eliza Bishop.

The great berlin art blog artberlin.de did a little story on my art practice

BRAVO

CymaScope is a new technology that allows us visualize practically everything that SPHERISM is conceptually about.

http://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/musicology.html

*2012 Sacred wheels....

....India is all about G (generator) O (organizer) D (destroyer) [Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva], so my sacred spheres are being put through the journey from the invisible to the visible.... <again, apologies for the low quality pix, as I am in an Indian internet cafe surrounded by frog filled rice patties> :)

*2012 -Wheels are spinning in Hampi, India

Sound bowl activations in ancient temples, and flower of life sacred geometry are giving birth to new ways to explore the spheristic qualities of nature as art. More (low quality Indian Internet cafe) pix to come...

*2011 -l'Original

L'Original

L'Original (detail)

Lays potato chips + L'Origine du monde by French artist Gustave Courbet = Classic Spherism

*2011 -back to the roots

Like all cycles; what goes around, comes around. So here I am with everything I have learned since 2004, returning to the basics. The simple pencil drawings that seem to captivate me in the abstractions that are created when breaking down the shapes of an image, and filling them with shorthand ripples, concentric rings of black and white. Again I turn to the trash of the American consumer culture to be my hero in this story. I have many pieces in the works now, and will post the finished ones here when completed. I am also in NYC doing sound bowl vibrational massages at my pop up healing spot In Praise of the Void, and working on some multi-media spheristic collaboration/animations.

I also feel as if I should re-write the manifesto, incorporating some of the fantastic information I have learned since the first on back in '04. Will post here soon.

Confessions (in progress)

Confessions

Final SUN (in process)

Popeyes Picasso (in process)

Popeyes Picasso

Stromming Matisse

*2009-2010 -into the void

During this time period I was in India, and focusing on different bodies of work, non-spherism related (some on my other blog). I did have a profound visionary experience during a Tibetan Singing bowl sound healing, and when I was in Dharmsala, India (home of the Dali Lama and the Tibetan exile community), I was trained to give vibrational healings using the sound bowls. This direct experience of the vibrations on the body produces many interesting effects, and serves as a deepening journey into the nature of sound/and vibrations which emanate from semi-spherical bodies. There is also much to learn in terms of setting up specific geometric configurations around the body (based on the 5 chakra, 7 chakra, and kabalastic 10 sepherot systems), to create subtle and powerful cross vibrational fields. I am realizing the importance of space as it functions to contain the vibrations. All this research is helping me understand more of the nature of what I am exploring through the medium of visual art.

*2008 -ancestral collaboration

I spent most of 2007 and 2008 arching my grandfather's photographs. I used the opportunity to organize a book and exhibit of his unkonwn/experimental work. The book, Unknown Halsman, was sequenced in a way that used his photographs to show the cycle of creation, life, death, rebirth. The end became the beginning, like the oroborus snake biting its own tale, a motif I worked with years earlier. I also discovered that the pages of the book, when shuffled, could be used as a tarot deck. I started giving readings at art fairs like Art Basel Miami, and the Dark Fair in NYC.

For the book release exhibit at the Magnum photos gallery during Paris Photo, I created several site specific installations re-mixing his darkroom equipment and ephemera, as a limited edition box set which contained a unique collaborative object which combined his photos with my concepts of time cycles (eggs/watches/butterflies).

Ancestral Oroborus

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (OHR&PH collab)

Albert Einstein (OHR&PH collab)

Andy Warhol (OHR&PH collab)

*2007 -concepts in motion

When my grandmother passed, I converted her exercise bike into a prayer wheel, with a series of 12 paintings that spun as fast or as slow as the viewer decided. There was no beginning or end, and as it went faster and faster it turned into an infinite color-field painting loop. This was a further exploration of cycles and circles, and even touching on astrology and the ready-made.

Yvonne's Cycle .

Dada For Grandma (instillation detail -Little Cakes Gallery, NYC) .

Dada For Grandma (painting detail)

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