Artistic Mind is an extra-ordinary state of attention in which multidimensional fields of meaning are available for our translation and expression.

Ted Falconar refers to these “infinite playing fields” as nous, a vivid wonderland in which the human mind can access patterned energies that transcend the limits of what is known through language alone. David Lynch speaks of “an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness”, a field of potential that unfolds and grows as you enliven it with non-verbal attention. Buckminster Fuller proposes nous as “a creativity that is a priori to the integrity of the universe”. 

Other words and phrases have been used by artists, philosophers, sages and mystics to capture this seemingly infinite source of creative energy, including “the Mystery”, “the Imaginal”, “the Unknown”, the “Liminal”, the “Collective Unconscious” and “the Dream”. Implicit within all of these understandings is a recognition that there is always more to be known and experienced and illuminated than what lies within conventional systems of knowledge and language.