[In response to an article in New Scientist Magazine, Dec. 2016.]
The technique to view Pollock's art is
to stand about 10 feet from the chosen painting by Pollock and
focusing intently on its center slowly walk up to it. About 5 feet
from the painting a spot in its center will form. At two feet the
spot will open and let you mentally / visually enter it. Attached to
colors, shapes and form are small “tags” that are attached to all
of the elements of the painting. Touch a “tab” and it will tell
you why the artist chose it to be what and why that placement was
necessary to the painting.
With this information you can
understand the full intensity of Pollock's vision and the extreme
deliberateness of placing the small streams of color in a very
skilled, deliberate application of paint.
This technique of viewing the inside
structure of a painting is a form of Remote Viewing (RV), called
remote Interior Viewing (RIV). Remote viewing is the viewing skill
that is used by many government spy (intelligence) agencies.
I used this skilled technique as an
art tool teaching the 200 art students (ages 10 to 13) to understand
and develop the perceptual concepts inherent in all created objects.
To go to a museum field trip was a favorite art class activity. We
developed a 13-point questionnaire to record our individual interior
viewings that were the basis for recall and discussion.
Sincerely.
Roger Armstrong
P.S.
A side point of interest was the view
/ perception of the artist that usually involved perceptions from
different specific timelines that were blended into one creative work
of art. Having 10-year-old art students develop a concept of the
structure of “time” based on their experience of segmenting it
for actual viewing was an exciting treat for me. Another offshoot of
that internal viewing was that the students were able to enter a
creative work quickly and with an intense focus. Hand-held musical
scores and text books interiors enabled a dialogue of the intentions
with their authors.
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