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Gordon Wood
- Seattle, Washington, US
- @gordonwoodart
My engagement and collaboration with WNFE/Think Resilience program stems from being a Deep Transformation Network community member, hence the writings/work of Jeremy Lent; which has broadened and deepened my comprehension of the Tao and Neo-Confucianism. Through my art I bring myself closer to the source, to make my-self see the cosmos as it is, to celebrate the energy and mystery in sensuous detail. I hope my audience will see it – self in a new, more connected way. Human art gives us glimpses of the truth that art is nature.
Gordon’s website: gordonwoodart.com.
Inter-Being, Intra-Imago: A Slow Dilation, Abandoned to Ripeness
Acrylic Collage on Panel
79.5" x 31.5"
Redundancy: The state of being not or no longer needed or useful. Globalization is a toxic extension on a planetary level, in all dimensions of life on Earth, human and non-human of the Barbaric Heart. The Barbaric Heart is predominately patriarchal, suppressing the fecundity, generativity and fruitfulness of the feminine. - Gordon Wood
“In this time of over-globalization, one alternative—re-localization—offers substantial benefits. It creates local jobs, increases the diversity of local occupations and skill sets, and thereby increases social capital—the richness of the relationships between people who live within a region.” – Richard Heinberg
Bioregionalism is (re-)localization, and bioregionalism means following, operating within nature’s true abilities, capacities and boundaries, being respectful of limits in relation to reciprocity as humans, biological beings in the biome. As opposed to culture being dominated and controlled by the market economy, a culture of reciprocity and reconciliation with nature unfolds, nullifying anthropocentric hubris so the biosphere retains its health and balance for all species, humanity and our home, the Commons of Earth. What can evolve is a greater love of life and connection to our “Great Green Land”, vast blue waters, and much more, a renewed concept, consciousness of true wealth, health and happiness. It’s all about living as Interbeings in biophilia. - Gordon Wood And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --- Anais Nin
2023
- Gordon Wood
Cosmogonic Feminine Reciprocity Embodied
Acrylic Collage on Canvas
72" x 60"
Redundancy: The state of being not or no longer needed or useful. Globalization is a toxic extension on a planetary level, in all dimensions of life on Earth, human and non-human of the Barbaric Heart. The Barbaric Heart is predominately patriarchal, suppressing the fecundity, generativity and fruitfulness of the feminine. - Gordon Wood
“In this time of over-globalization, one alternative—re-localization—offers substantial benefits. It creates local jobs, increases the diversity of local occupations and skill sets, and thereby increases social capital—the richness of the relationships between people who live within a region.” – Richard Heinberg
Bioregionalism is (re-)localization, and bioregionalism means following, operating within nature’s true abilities, capacities and boundaries, being respectful of limits in relation to reciprocity as humans, biological beings in the biome. As opposed to culture being dominated and controlled by the market economy, a culture of reciprocity and reconciliation with nature unfolds, nullifying anthropocentric hubris so the biosphere retains its health and balance for all species, humanity and our home, the Commons of Earth. What can evolve is a greater love of life and connection to our “Great Green Land”, vast blue waters, and much more, a renewed concept, consciousness of true wealth, health and happiness. It’s all about living as Interbeings in biophilia. - Gordon Wood And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --- Anais Nin
2023
- Gordon Wood
Grokking – Our Bodies of Water
Acrylic Collage on Panel
48" x 48"
I will reiterate that reciprocity is essential for, to resiliency. What’s significant is how Art can connect the dots in an integral manner emphasizing transdisciplinarity, linking and enfolding it with the broader community’s resilience and “web of meaning” and values in dialogue. As David Bohm states, “My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.”
Reciprocity - the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Regarding Systems Thinking; “A worm, on the other hand, along with every living entity, down to a single cell, is a complex system, which means that all its parts engage dynamically with each other in a vast number of nonlinear relationships, with feedback loops that can never be precisely described or predicted.” - Jeremy Lent
For me, this is essentially the creative process, within which one may be embedded, enfolded, in collective resilience. We humans need to reconnect as symbiotic beings in relation to our place, time and space as nature.
“Integralism is a great antidote to perceiving reality in the dualistic mode that plagues Western civilization. It calls for reciprocity and equality among all the levels of reality, and all levels of being.”
- Suzi Gablik
Reciprocity - the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Regarding Systems Thinking; “A worm, on the other hand, along with every living entity, down to a single cell, is a complex system, which means that all its parts engage dynamically with each other in a vast number of nonlinear relationships, with feedback loops that can never be precisely described or predicted.” - Jeremy Lent
For me, this is essentially the creative process, within which one may be embedded, enfolded, in collective resilience. We humans need to reconnect as symbiotic beings in relation to our place, time and space as nature.
“Integralism is a great antidote to perceiving reality in the dualistic mode that plagues Western civilization. It calls for reciprocity and equality among all the levels of reality, and all levels of being.”
- Suzi Gablik
2022
- Gordon Wood
Emergent Mindful Ecology
Acrylic Collage w/Metal Leaf on Panel
42.5" x 42.5"
I will reiterate that reciprocity is essential for, to resiliency. What’s significant is how Art can connect the dots in an integral manner emphasizing transdisciplinarity, linking and enfolding it with the broader community’s resilience and “web of meaning” and values in dialogue. As David Bohm states, “My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.”
Reciprocity - the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Regarding Systems Thinking; “A worm, on the other hand, along with every living entity, down to a single cell, is a complex system, which means that all its parts engage dynamically with each other in a vast number of nonlinear relationships, with feedback loops that can never be precisely described or predicted.” - Jeremy Lent
For me, this is essentially the creative process, within which one may be embedded, enfolded, in collective resilience. We humans need to reconnect as symbiotic beings in relation to our place, time and space as nature.
“Integralism is a great antidote to perceiving reality in the dualistic mode that plagues Western civilization. It calls for reciprocity and equality among all the levels of reality, and all levels of being.”
- Suzi Gablik
Reciprocity - the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Regarding Systems Thinking; “A worm, on the other hand, along with every living entity, down to a single cell, is a complex system, which means that all its parts engage dynamically with each other in a vast number of nonlinear relationships, with feedback loops that can never be precisely described or predicted.” - Jeremy Lent
For me, this is essentially the creative process, within which one may be embedded, enfolded, in collective resilience. We humans need to reconnect as symbiotic beings in relation to our place, time and space as nature.
“Integralism is a great antidote to perceiving reality in the dualistic mode that plagues Western civilization. It calls for reciprocity and equality among all the levels of reality, and all levels of being.”
- Suzi Gablik
2022
- Gordon Wood
Ecology of Mind: There is No Garden of Eden
Acrylic Collage on Panel
20" x 20"
I will reiterate that reciprocity is essential for, to resiliency. What’s significant is how Art can connect the dots in an integral manner emphasizing transdisciplinarity, linking and enfolding it with the broader community’s resilience and “web of meaning” and values in dialogue. As David Bohm states, “My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.”
Reciprocity - the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Regarding Systems Thinking; “A worm, on the other hand, along with every living entity, down to a single cell, is a complex system, which means that all its parts engage dynamically with each other in a vast number of nonlinear relationships, with feedback loops that can never be precisely described or predicted.” - Jeremy Lent
For me, this is essentially the creative process, within which one may be embedded, enfolded, in collective resilience. We humans need to reconnect as symbiotic beings in relation to our place, time and space as nature.
“Integralism is a great antidote to perceiving reality in the dualistic mode that plagues Western civilization. It calls for reciprocity and equality among all the levels of reality, and all levels of being.”
- Suzi Gablik
Reciprocity - the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Regarding Systems Thinking; “A worm, on the other hand, along with every living entity, down to a single cell, is a complex system, which means that all its parts engage dynamically with each other in a vast number of nonlinear relationships, with feedback loops that can never be precisely described or predicted.” - Jeremy Lent
For me, this is essentially the creative process, within which one may be embedded, enfolded, in collective resilience. We humans need to reconnect as symbiotic beings in relation to our place, time and space as nature.
“Integralism is a great antidote to perceiving reality in the dualistic mode that plagues Western civilization. It calls for reciprocity and equality among all the levels of reality, and all levels of being.”
- Suzi Gablik
2022
- Gordon Wood
Cascadia Enchantment & the Barbaric Heart
Acrylic collage w/metal leaf on panel60" x 48"
Enchantment: “An unapologetic affirmation of the meaningful richness and depth of existence, registering the dynamic wholeness of being (inclusive of negativity and absence), fostering health and vitality in evincing a non-reductive integrative inclusiveness.”
-- Michael Schwartz, PhD
Barbaric Heart: “In fact the Barbaric Heart is civilized, for all the good that does it, and has always happily clad itself in the decorous togas of Rome (as the Ostrogoth King Theodoric did), the pinstripes of Wall Street, and the comfy suburbanity of L. L. Bean.” “This is the barbaric calculation: if you can prosper from violence, then you should go ahead and be violent. In short order the Barbaric Heart is lead to conclude that in face prosperity is dependent on violence. Therefore, you should be good at violence, for your own sake and the sake of your country. -- Curtis White
I’ve lived in the Cascadia Bioregion for thirty-nine years, the majority of my life now, and this place feels like home and it has nourished my creative life, imagination deeply through its magnificent beauty beyond what words can adequately articulate. It is much greater than the visual beauty that awes and feeds my sense of wonder, as it is very physical, tangible. We’ll get more into this…
The truth is that Cascadia is not named after a static entity like a mountain range, but rather for what the whole of the maritime mountainous region does—it cascades! So, Cascadia is named after this signature region-wide dynamism! -- Dr. David D. McCloskey, Cascadia Institute
Barbaric Heart: “In fact the Barbaric Heart is civilized, for all the good that does it, and has always happily clad itself in the decorous togas of Rome (as the Ostrogoth King Theodoric did), the pinstripes of Wall Street, and the comfy suburbanity of L. L. Bean.” “This is the barbaric calculation: if you can prosper from violence, then you should go ahead and be violent. In short order the Barbaric Heart is lead to conclude that in face prosperity is dependent on violence. Therefore, you should be good at violence, for your own sake and the sake of your country. -- Curtis White
I’ve lived in the Cascadia Bioregion for thirty-nine years, the majority of my life now, and this place feels like home and it has nourished my creative life, imagination deeply through its magnificent beauty beyond what words can adequately articulate. It is much greater than the visual beauty that awes and feeds my sense of wonder, as it is very physical, tangible. We’ll get more into this…
The truth is that Cascadia is not named after a static entity like a mountain range, but rather for what the whole of the maritime mountainous region does—it cascades! So, Cascadia is named after this signature region-wide dynamism! -- Dr. David D. McCloskey, Cascadia Institute
2022
- Gordon Wood
LOVE Nebula Autopoiesis
Acrylic collage on panel24" x 30"
This artwork is an image of nested scales and scopes as existing in holonic reality. Love is a powerful, regenerative force in sustaining resilience in the universe as well as sentient beings through an integral ecology of mind essential for our health, as well as the health of all the Earth’s flora & fauna.
Autopoiesis refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself in relational terms, dynamics, as in Interbeing, with the persistence of Panarchy, a model of “interlinked adaptive cycles occuring at multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously.”
1 - Wahl Beauty nurtures harmony and flourishing in the universe, enhancing resilience: Beauty equals, retains, and emphasizes truth and connection to subtlety and the sublime through its presence. Beauty expands the relationship of the soul to spirit and beyond through increased awareness, openness, and perception. Beauty embodies the very drive, creative and evolutionary of the Kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness in the witness, beholder and through empathic capacities.
Beauty embraces us in the timeless now by suspending the other chatter in our brains, creating space to be present in the moment. The freedom of non-duality sustains beauty and truth. Beauty nurtures growth, inspires, and confirms all the potential in the Kosmos.
Beauty has meaning. Decay - entropy is inevitable, unavoidable, and regenerative. One can’t have beauty without decay; they go hand in hand, the Yin and the Yang, the Wabi Sabi.
The vision and objective are for sustainable beauty, transcendence, transmutation, and transformation via translation of all that this wondrous Kosmos provides through my actions and art.
Autopoiesis refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself in relational terms, dynamics, as in Interbeing, with the persistence of Panarchy, a model of “interlinked adaptive cycles occuring at multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously.”
1 - Wahl Beauty nurtures harmony and flourishing in the universe, enhancing resilience: Beauty equals, retains, and emphasizes truth and connection to subtlety and the sublime through its presence. Beauty expands the relationship of the soul to spirit and beyond through increased awareness, openness, and perception. Beauty embodies the very drive, creative and evolutionary of the Kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness in the witness, beholder and through empathic capacities.
Beauty embraces us in the timeless now by suspending the other chatter in our brains, creating space to be present in the moment. The freedom of non-duality sustains beauty and truth. Beauty nurtures growth, inspires, and confirms all the potential in the Kosmos.
Beauty has meaning. Decay - entropy is inevitable, unavoidable, and regenerative. One can’t have beauty without decay; they go hand in hand, the Yin and the Yang, the Wabi Sabi.
The vision and objective are for sustainable beauty, transcendence, transmutation, and transformation via translation of all that this wondrous Kosmos provides through my actions and art.
2022
- Gordon Wood