Novelties of Nous

"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects they are dissipated under its influence... the cohesive force seems suspended like some trick of magic; each object is loosed into a group of impressions – colour, odour, texture..." (Walter Horatio Pater) *** Contributions in this video by: Antoni Gaudí, Milton Avery, Eileen Agar, Oliver Lee Jackson, Elie Wiesel, Marina Abramović. View more in our Dedication Gallery {https://inous.org/honoring-artistic-m...} *** Start your collection of promopts today {https://www.inous.org/subscribe-novel...}. Or order a customised and printed card deck with between 32-64 imaginative prompts. *** Original metascapes digitally handpainted by Lanon Carl Prigge and paired with the wisdom of artistic minds: Prompt 1) This voice of great accord / Antoni Gaudí (architect) Prompt 2) For what is coming / Milton Avery (painter) Prompt 3) Play on, play on / Eileen Agar (painter, sculptor, photographer) Prompt 4) Something tantalizing / Oliver Lee Jackson (painter, sculptor, printmaker) Prompt 5) For those who could not care / Elie Wiesel (novelist, activist) Prompt 6) Approaching gently / Marina Abramović (performance and body artist) *** Music in this video: Endless story about sun and moon by Kai Engel. Published under an Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...} and available at Kai Engel | Free Music Archive {https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ka...Idea-_02_Endless_Story_About_Sun_and_Moon/}. You can show your support for Kai Engel here {https://boosty.to/kaiengelmusic}.

This week's video in celebration of these illuminating artistic minds: Jenny Odell, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Herbert E. Read, Terence McKenna, Arthur Koestler, Margot Fonteyn and Tom Robbins. *** "Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life’s bittersweet route." (Tom Robbins | Novelist) *** ✨We celebrate and support anyone who has the "grace and love and wit" to keep exploring humanity's collective Artistic Mind and - through deeply personal and authentic expression - illuminate its capacity to transform, enrich and empower us all. *** Music in this video: Scenery by Kai Engel on the album Brume. Published under an Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/}

Contributions on artistic mind from Jerzy Grotowski, Terence McKenna, Eugenio Barba, Osho, Ted Falconar, Alan Watts, William Irwin Thompson, John Cage, Michael Talbot, Carl Jung, Lyall Watson, Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Thomas. ************************************** ARTISTIC MINDS are constantly in motion – seeking new perspectives, deepened understanding, untapped resources. Our artistic mind is nurtured with silence and introspection, as much as it is activated by stimulation and collaboration. Novelties of Nous are reminders of our innate artistic capacity. They are imaginative prompts that support our desire to access the extraordinary and celebrate the ordinary through the power of our artistic mind. ************************************************** You can: - receive daily Novelties like these via email {https://www.inous.org/subscribe-novelties-of-nous} - order a fully customised and printed card deck with Novelties like these {send us an email} ********************************************* NEW VIDEO UPLOADED once weekly EVERY SUNDAY ********************************************* Music: Illumination by Kai Engel. Kai Engel. Published under an Attribution-Non-commercial International License {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/} and available at Kai Engel | Free Music Archive {https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Satin_1564/Kai_Engel_-_Satin_-_02_Illumination/}