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The Art of Adi Da Samraj, Transcendental Realism

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I was first introduced to Adi Da Samraj in 1972. At the time, I owned a natural foods cafe that included a small bookstore. The cafe featured books on spirituality, health and nutrition. The cafe carried several titles by Adi Da, who at that time was known as Franklin Jones. I have always had an interest in art but at the time, I did not know that Adi Da was an artist as well as an author. Eight years later I found myself living in Northern California and opening a gourmet natural foods restaurant. Adi Da was living in California at the time and that’s when I first learned about his Transcendental Art.

I immediately wanted to use Adi Da’s art in my restaurant and inquired to see if any of it was for sale. At that time, Adi Da had made available limited edition prints of what he calls his, Transcendental Cartoons. The Transcendental Cartoons are a series of brush and ink drawings he made in the sixties. For me, his cartoons have a traditional Zen like quality to them that I felt would perfectly match the restaurant’s decor. I purchased three of the cartoons and hung them between the murals in the dining room. They looked absolutely amazing and visibly brightened the restaurant from every angle.

As it turns out, I have pretty good taste in art. Adi Da Samraj was featured as an official solo collateral artist at the 2007 Venice Biennale. He then became the first contemporary artist to ever be given a solo exhibition by the city of Florence. His work has also been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States. In response to the art of Adi Da, internationally known art critic Donald Kuspit has written, “It is a rare artist that can convey, convincingly, being face to face with the source of Being.”

It’s now thirty years later and I have again purchased one of Adi Da’s exquisite pieces, from a collection he calls his Spectra Suite. This newest piece hangs in my office at the Blue OK and I am moved beyond my self every time I see it. Adi Da himself has said of his art, “The images I make invite people to a participatory and transformative process. My images serve a mode of participation and perception that is non-ordinary, that breaks beyond the “box” of body-mind. “point of view”, or the ego’s mode of viewing existence, is gone beyond, undermined–not “flattered”, not permitted, in some sense–by the very nature of these images.” . . . This is exactly what I feel whenever and wherever I see his art.

Many of the images in the video above can be purchased from Da Plastique. You can see more of Adi Da’s work and learn more about him at http://daplastique.com. If you are interested in purchasing any of Adi Da’s art, just contact my friend Stanley Hastings at Da Plastique. Tell him you heard about Adi Da’s art at the Blue OK!

- Scott Morrow

Kimberly Pinkson: Sustain your self, your family, your world

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:32:55 +0000

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DaCha Teas: hand selected teas from Southeast Asia

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Amy McCarrel: taking gourmet to the next level

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Painter Robert Percy shares his paintings and his soul

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Angelo Druda explains the Tao of Rejuvention

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Modern Branding Toolkit August Birthdays

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The Organic Tea Gardens of Darjiling, India

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At an organic tea garden in India’s Darjiling region, Camellia sinensis leaves are plucked by hand, as they have been since the British began widespread tea cultivation in the 1830s. Producing around two billion pounds (900 million kilograms) a year, India is the globe’s largest tea grower.
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