UNIFIED FIELD

I AM NO LONGER DEPICTING THE WORLD; I AM STIRRING UP COSMIC STARDUST AND SEEING WHAT MIGHT EMERGE.

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“Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.”

— CLAUDE MONET

A SELECTION OF UNIFIED FIELD

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THE EVOLUTION OF UNIFIED FIELD

Music in both videos by Nick Hetko

  • LIVING IN MONET'S GIVERNY

    My experience with Monet

  • KYOTO RAIN

    A related work of mine

  • HAVING DESSERT WITH MONET

    Let Them Eat Cake: I Don’t Think So

  • LEAVING LEONARDO

    Another time I found myself pixelating.

  • TOWARD A NEW LANDSCAPE

    What I have to say about Gustav Klimt.

  • MONET AND TIME

    Monet's Epte River at Dawn

 

 

Unified Field is a series of paintings based on an unexpected personal experience that I could neither explain nor forget - an experience that changed my understanding of the world and our place in it. 

  • How we know the world is how we experience it through our senses. If our senses are distorted by whatever means, that also becomes a part of our reality.

    Once I had this experience of the world floating in dust motes of colorful confetti, I searched for an explanation. Buddhist teaching revolves around a point of view reached in the world of acintya, or “no-thought,” where the unity of all opposites becomes a vivid experience. This experience is very difficult to describe in three-dimensional consciousness. I have friends who have reached this state through prolonged meditation. They have never quite been able to explain it to me, but all report this feeling of unity with the world, a sense of being a tiny particle in the scheme of things and having a tremendous sense of well-being or universal love.

    A similar thing exists in the world of relativistic physics where force and matter are unified.

    This tells me that I had experienced something that does, in fact, exist in our universe, but is rarely experienced on this plane.

    Since then, I searched for a way to convey this experience in paint.


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