My Life Purpose summarized

[Himanshu]

I'm at my best when I'm engaged fully with a complex and layered artwork - something full of symbols and rich in form. If it is easy to get, it's not my thing. I can stare at a 'rich' artwork for hours immersed into and playing with all the ideas and feelings that it triggers within me. The same goes for rich and complex theories.

I also have a strong unique ability to connect symbols to culture and psychology - and recontextualizing them in various ways. I'm really attracted to mythology, expressionists and surrealist artwork. Also, advertising, marketing and copywriting. 

Advertisements are full of subliminal symbols and 'archetypes' - the 'seducer' sells deodorants, the 'hero' sells undergarments and the 'mother' sells baby diapers, soaps and even hair oils. 

So, 'Translating concepts/feelings into form' is my zone of genius, 

And this is shit scary. Whenever I really dive deep into a philosophical idea and start to develop it visually, my whole body is responding to it. 

I've attempted to take up a subject and stick to it until it's fully developed. It gets really really discomforting to do this. I'll find a way, any way, to turn myself to something else. 

I get emotionally charged and highly sensitive to everything around me.

Once I'm in, it's a labyrinth. I'm afraid I might lose touch with reality if I pursue this. Really. 

These seem like strange but good signs. Like the dark tunnel before the light. 

And I have an inkling that this is my path to Clarity and Wholeness. I'll stick to it. 

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Through my work, I want to shock and surprise by revealing the deceptions of perception, leaving the viewer dazzled and elated

I want to help people touch upon the ecstacy of seeing from God's perspective, by showing them the immense complexity of the world, and still everything works in harmony. Isn't that incredible? 

I want to help people conceptualize themselves in more than one way. Everyone is a node in an information and a biological network, peak of natural evolution and home to a million microbes. You are not just 'you', see? 

I want to help people to look at the world through more perspectives. You could have been born to a different family in a different time with different struggles and different philosophies. What is it like to stand in someone else's shoes? 

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My Life purpose is to create experiences that help people access and integrate the hidden aspects of their psyche, making them whole. 

My ideal medium is VR. 

My domain of mastery is Perceptual Psychology - still researching this part. If you've a suggestion, let me know. 

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What does 'accessing the hidden aspects of the psyche' mean? 

Mixing realistic and abstract components to make dream-like sequences, which have heightened emotional component: heightened sadness, fear, ecstacy, pity, pain, disgust, excitement, despair or sexual arousal. 

Depending upon the emotional state, there are everyday objects, but altered physical properties to fuck your brain up trying to make sense of it. But brains are brains and they'll make up stuff for you. 

For example, the following image alters the scale.

How would being the ropewalker make you feel? 

Provoked? Aroused? Triggered? 

How would being this man make you feel? 

Insignificant? Humbled? Lonely? Inspired?

These are primitive examples, but good for understanding. 

Okay, how do these 'experiences' lead to integration and wholeness? 

This is somewhere along what Leo adviced (in one of his older videos) for shy people to become more assertive: next time when you're at a self-served restaurant, hold the line deliberately, face the anxiety of being opposite of who you (think you) are.

Or If you're a hardcore capitalist, you can experience a rain of gold. (Like the raining burgers in 'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs) Does that fulfill you? 

These experiences are designed to trigger and heighten the emotional response. If you carry your awareness with you, these can be great tools for introspection and exploring your judgements, lies, even traumas. 

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I'll need to work up my emotional vocabulary alongwith my visual vocabulary. 

I'll be pulling a lot of images from Jung's archetypes, surrealism, mythology, cultural icons, sacred geometry, satellite imagery, biological renderings etc. 

Also, natural disasters, extreme landscapes, natural and supernatural phenomena, etc. 

And real buildings--particularly of Antonio Gaudi and the expressionists, virtual 3D models of everyday objects, conceptual architecture, famous buildings (in different contexts) etc. 

My inspirations for 'theory' will be the mad and the mystics: Ken Wilber, Kabir, Khalil Gibran, Gurdjieff, Nikola Tesla, Salvador Dali, Aurobindo, Rumi, Nietzsche, etc. 

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Why VR? 

Because it's way more effective for the purpose than any other medium 

You're alone in it

Because the world is saved one individual at a time

And your red is not necessarily my red. There is no way to know. Neither do you have a real way of knowing my pains and ecstacies. 

There are only a handful of VR artists out there, and they are busy making music videos - I've my blue ocean. 

VR content industry is booming, its not too late, not too early. 

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Somebody created landscapes out of Dali's works and it's fairly popular: 

Brilliant! 

 

I'm getting to work! 

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While that is not the priority, I do want to make money with this. Any critique / tips on business aspects are welcomed.

 

Edited February 3, 2019 by Himanshu