The beauty in any unique creation is more than how you apply your skill at crafting something, . . . its soulfulness is borne of speculation, in how you perceive everything around you. It is your intuition, your awareness, your focus, and a steadfast belief that what you observe reveals the mysteries of life itself. It is your conviction to pursue these intracate facets which manifest our greater awareness of who and what we are.

“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”

Edgar Degas

When you put your hands to something and fully engage your mind, you forge something that only you can, . . . the birth of these ideas is realized “Into the Now” and cannot be undone.

Insight

“It is what it is.”

Kenneth Peattie with Hogen Bays (Roshi)

Great Vow Zen Monastery - Oregon, 2003

Kenneth has creative and visionary talents with a keen eye for detail. He is an accomplished builder of many things, and maintains a high degree of technical acumen. His artistic talents are shaped through his quest for deeper awareness and dedication to sharing abstruse insight.

Foresight

Through personal experience and observation, I recognize my ability to envision and conceptualize levels of engineering to a high degree of efficiency, well beyond anything that has been revealed. Though I understand that its platform allows my mind to exercise its analytical propensities, I believe that there is greater advantage in acquiring perspective. The desire to integrate a subset of these perceptions through creative design, and compositional modeling, has become an outlet which in retrospect appear to be many years ahead of its time. Of course this is the premise of all creativity, . . . the birth of ideas foster the manifestation of greater levels of awareness.

I say this, not to take more individual credit than is due in cultivating the future, but rather to remind myself that active participation in the fostering of my intuition promotes depth of insight beyond the ordinary. Through thoughtful creation via action and intent, I can leave an imprint upon the future.

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

Aristotle

I know there are many who call it “creative visualization”. And yes, in part that is exactly what it is. However, whether or not there is any real creative intent, or whether the visualization stems from physical/soulful/mindful bonds with our past/present/future experience, I do know that the birth of these ideas is realized “Into the Now” and cannot be undone.

It’s affects are forever reaching, forever modifying this moment in all time (the sum of all parts) moving forward. The effects of which are the roots that bring about change through and within other sentient beings. It becomes interlaced with both the physical and mental space in which we exist. This space (a dimension if you will) is a defining barrier from which the spiritual being feeds and transmutates. It is where the dogma of spiritual realization grounds itself and allows us to permeate other boundaries. That is what I would like to believe, . . . it is difficult to trace.