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EDY BEATO, Dominican pianist, composer and painter, plays "Just Like a Dream," illustrated with his painting "Shanti (Peace)." Also see: Special Donations 1, Special Donations 2, Special Donations 3. Heart of Forgiveness, (in memory of Goethe's Theory of Colors) is alike jovial and bucolic, pastoral and innocent --full of life, flowers and flowing colors. The sweet and yet shy pose of the drake was inspired by the beautiful daughter of a friend Lutheran pastor. Feminine beauty as found in some poor peasant girls was a recurrent theme with many artists in the eighteen century. Later on, I painted the charming woman with three flowers, and baptized her with the name of Shanti, which in Sanskrit means peace or blessed. Like the music of Shanti (Amazing Grace), the painting is fraught with contrasts, oxymoronic devices and complementary colors. One would say that the sustain pedal, as the soul of the piano, could be likened to the all-bathing blue ether of the foggy background --it is the optical gray of a hazy distance and depth! On the other hand, the sweet melancholy melody, always nostalgically moving back and forth through a labyrinth of intervals and dissonances (the many incidents of pains and pleasure in this short life), would remind us of consciousness, or, the "shimmering sparks of reason" (peruse Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, book iii, On Aesthetics) finds its affinity with the luminous spots of light! Indeed, light, in itself, has mysterious healing power. In many a cloudy day, I was able to ward off any morbid feeling of sadness or dejection by simply lighting a sweet candle. And the effect was not only healing and beautiful, but likewise very sublime, solemn and uplifting to a very high pitch of well-being! Sunset of Completeness: as
the goal of all our efforts and aspirations should be towards the
heaven of light, reality may blur into two mysterious worlds: the
subjective and the objective; both are linked together by our
consciousness, which is the bridge (Nexus-Mind), or it could be the X
of Kant (Noumea) --The Will-To-Exist of Schopenhauer's philosophy. The
rationalistic philosopher may seek the light of reason in the narrow
province of our physical senses, but that would not be enough,
consciousness may even go far deep into unknown areas of feelings,
self-awareness and being. And great music, like the beauty of a sublime
sunset, seems to remind us, that in the twilight of being in this
mysterious existence, reason alone would not suffice to explaining the
countless feelings, sensations and ineffable sensibilities that constantly spring
forth from the bottomless depth of the human heart (soul). |
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