Art that refines perception

      In September 1990 Oregon pilots reported the appearing of giant Shri Yantra in the desert. After various theories  the creator revealed himself - Bill Witherspoon- US-artist, and later founder of innovative Sky Factory. After six years of self-discovered Grand Love-letters to Being Bill shared what he found in "Art as technology". Created back in 199five - five number doesn't work -  today this chronicle a series of experiences and observations becames possibly even more fresh-looking and actual. I see there the way and method of how we can make something nice and big together - not just for each of us who participate - for all the Existence, whatever anybody means by it!  With great appreciation to Bill and people who helped him in described experiences we publishing here the chronicle. Believing that its reading will be same exiting that it was for us, we will not share it on any social pages and on any other of numerous fund's websites - continuing the good eternal-alike tradition of organic transfer of knowledge, which contains defined amount of luck. 

Art as technology

Oregon from 12,000 feet, Mickey Basin, copyright 1990 Bill Witherspoon

To Her,
Daughter of mountain
Lover of lonely places

To Her who is ancient and
secret

To Her who sounds in my
heart
The voice of the sky

To Her
To You
​I bow down

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Introduction

​      The following pages chronicle a series of experiences and observations that have emerged from several years of exploratory art projects. Necessarily, they are personal. The experiences resulted from events that were intuitively directed or were the response to some environmental stimulus. Because of this, things were often done without preconceived intellectual rationale. Often I had questions and was seeking answers, but at other times I did not know the questions and seemed to be engaged in activities that were following some barely perceivable thread. 

    It was often months or even years before I understood the reasons, purpose and way the projects arranged themselves. And, even with a feeling of understanding, it has often been difficult to verbally explain or place actions in the context of a commonly acceptable model of how the world works. In this chronicle, I have attempted to relate some of the facts and simple observations that accompanied these projects without attempting to describe the delight of the exploratory process. ​

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