Artist’s Statement
Nimitta is the pulsing light that one in a deep breath meditation may see
as an emergence behind the lids of their closed eyes. This can be
explained by a hyper-oxygenation of the blood, but many agree that this
is also because they are able to ‘peer’ over the accepted limitations of
vision, using one’s psychic sight, to perceive energy. Human conceptions,
of all types, are often defined squarely within the describable – within the
sensory realm, because remembered sensory input often precedes
original experience. All of this collected experiential data is called upon
when the unexplainable occurs, and rather than see and accept it for
what it is or what it maybe, without proper explanation or comparison,
we call it a syndrome or we call it God.
I’m often caught like Bergson in two worlds, life and time, and the
‘fluidity and poignancy of duration’. I exist, and I’ll be here for a short
while, my form being quite similar to everything else that already exists. I
make constant comparisons between the physical and the psychologicalthe
‘existence’ and the perception of it. Scale, even cosmically, is relative,
and in a way so exponential in either direction that my human conception
is truncated to an insignificant breadth. This is the deceiving nature of
things- to even come close to making sense of it all, I am able perceive
the inherent pattern. Everything is connected and relates integrally, a
relationship of all things regardless of their material form that is
pervasive and constant. We attempt to describe this relationship as a
species, simultaneously through science, social conduct, art, and
spirituality. Our expression of self and our acceptance of our place in our
lives is reverent of this relationship. It is elegance in the simplicity of
physics, the attraction and mysteriousness of divinity, how the same
components on an atomic level can produce such diverse forms macro
and microscopically, including the human form, including the cosmos,
including the sand.
Please enjoy Nimitta as I have imbued the work with this energy :: the
unrecognizable, inherently patterned, describable by the senses beyond
the physical, imitation and replication of the deceivingly integral cosmos.
About the Artist
Andi Todaro was born and lives in Denver, Colorado. She received her
Bachelor of Science in Journalism at University of Colorado at Boulder
with an emphasis in Advertising and an accompanying Technology, Art
and Media Certificate. Andi is a multi-disciplinary creative, with a career
in freelance graphic and commercial art design and an interest in science,
geometry, astronomy, and mathematics that drives an exploration in art
and aesthetics.