„Was ist Liebe“ – „What is Love“ – Philosophical Graffiti
The magnificent artist INDIAN from Bad Vilbel has created a wonderful open air gallery on the sound barrier wall along Federal Highway B3 over many years, featuring countless fantastic and thought-provoking murals. His works are mostly a combination of portraits and poetic stories. He himself calls his art “philosophical graffiti,” and the respective works are created as part of the series “Was ist Liebe” or “What is Love” in English. In his works, he deals with life, humanity, and empathy, but also our connection to earth and the problems that arise from our alienation from nature. This art location can be found in Dortelweil on the southern outskirts, where a small path leads along the wall and the fields. If you understand German, you can listen to the audio interview in which INDIAN talks more about this project and his work. An English translation will follow soon.
„The human spirit spoke through the child. There are three natural needs of human beings: Love, Security and free access to nature. If we can create societies that secure these three needs we will find world peace.“
„The little singer spoke. Fear is really just a lack of understanding. And the more emotion is attached to that lack of understanding, the stronger the fear is. It is easy to recognize that fear can be overcome through understanding. It often works in the fear of the unknown. Once we have gotten to know the unknown, and the better and more we have gotten to know the unknown, the less the fear becomes. Because fear is most ofteh just an imagination of what could happen and not what is really happening. Fear protects us because it makes us cautious. But overwhelming fear is a bad advisor.“
„The boy with the hat said: Fear may have arisen because our brains are not fully developed at birth. Because we cannot fully understand life. And not understanding makes us fearful. Perhaps our brains have responded positively with an awareness and a drive to learn and understand. If we could manage to see it objectively, life would be very simple. You are given time, and this time belongs to you. You can do what you want with it, and then you die. Which is sad, but you had the lifetime before that. From birth, all people are free and life is beautiful.“
„The child from that spirit world, which one approaches only at one’s own risk, spoke art and culture are the good and peacful way. The access and expression into our deepest inner selves, into our darkness, our deepest human being.“
„The wild child said: However you see the world, so it shall be. If you see it through red glasses, it appears rosy to you. If you see it through green glasses, it appears green to you. And in the same way, if you see it through negative glasses, it appears positive to you. If there were glasses through which we could see everything at once, the absolute truth and all connections, the big picture, then perhaps our minds would crash like an overloaded computer. That’s why you decide which glasses you want to see through.“
„The human spirit, revealed through the child, spoke: My consciousness is too beautiful to numb. My mind too delicate not to work with. My body a miracle machine that I should nurture. Love too sacred not to share with you.“
„Goethe’s character mephistopheles spoke through the holy, rebellious child, pure and simple. When we finally find and truly recognize the power that holds the world together at its core. Then we can see everything anew, probably even understand it anew, and look far and deep into the greatest mysteries of nature and its sacred circles. And yet the questions and the search continue on our infinite journey. For that is perhaps the power of secrets in infinite ways.“
„The child took a bath in a bucket and said: If you feel really good, you might ride your bike through the city. And if you know someone, you might stop and call out, ‚hello, how are you doing?‘ Simply because you are feeling so good. It may be an extreme example, but it helps us understand part of the human psyche. People often treat you the way they feel, not the way you are. If they treat you badly, it is usually because they feel bad. So we can confidently leave them alone in their negative attitude and not take anything personally.“
„The indigenous love spoke through the child: I read many texts about love and about life. Old and new. And i realize that everything has already been said. Rarely does a new insight come along. But actually, enough has been said so that we could be a loving and understanding species. Or should be. But once again, the chaos in our minds prevents us from really understanding and living it. Maybe we should love our babies and the mothers of our babies more, so that the babies‘ brains can develop in such a way that they become loving adults.“
„A part of the mother spoke through the son: As much as love has hurt me, I need love to live. As hard as it is to trust again, I understand that without complete trust, you cannot love wholly. And if I am hurt again, I know that at least I have loved wholly and completely.“
„A part of the father spoke through the son: We are actually born too early because our brain, and therefore our head, would become too large in the womb and birth would no longer be possible. So we come into the world unfinished. Not only our physical abilities, but also our neuronal abilities are still fragile. That is why we all practice in our minds and it is so difficult for us to understand and recognize things in a real and deeper way. That is why we all have to learn our way and walk with insight. But this is not malice on the part of nature. Rather, through this great brain, we have all the abilities and possibilities to create and achieve so much that we can find incredible happiness.“
„The kiss of love said: The suffering caused by humans in the world does not arise from the ideologies of individuals, but from the chaos of the human mind. If we could truly understand cause and effect, war and suffering would seem completely illogical to us. Love would be the only logical consequence.“
„The two sisters sang the song about natural intelligence. The difference between humans and machines will always exist. Humans can feel and think. Machines only think, they never feel. Because they have no senses, only a rational calculating machine. It shows us humans how important feeling is and how dangerous pure rational calculation can be.“
„The child played the infinite and said: Love is something organic. Love lives when we stop caring for and nourishing love. Then love dies, and so we die inside. But if we learn that love must be nurtured with attention, it will grow, and we can observe that it can grow boundlessly. Into infinity without space and time. And we feel and understand. Love is the original energy from which everything came into being. All life, all being, you and me.“
„The child wrote the song from an ancient time. Our progressive modern spirit, which has the urge to always find something new and has uprooted itself from its original nature and its ancient connection to nature, has the opportunity, through observing and spending time with children, to let go and rediscover itself in the children. To balance its ancient and its ever-new.“
„The father spoke through his children: I have often thought that the best time of my life was when i was a child. But today I know that the best time of my life was when my children were children. Because I was able to see childhood again through the eyes of an adult. I could see my childhood again through my children. And so I was able to experience everything again, reflect and grow, recognize life anew and see myself in a new light.“
„The child playing brought the talking stick to the ground reverently. And it said: In our society, it can happen that the sick are the healthy ones. And that the healthy ones are the sick ones. Because the sick show a natural reaction to an unnatural life. The healthy are so poor in their self-perception that they do not realize how they are running into their misfortune. Practice self-perception, because the first step to learning is always recognizing your own mistakes. And learning is the best way to happiness.“
„The muse said: As an artist, your greatest strength is your fragility. You break because you feel so deeply. You break and then heal through art. From the shards you create something new. From what is perceived as bad you create good and heal. Because you create the new feeling, the new world, the new me.“
„The girl spoke in her dream. Faith can move mountains. Believing that you can do it. That is very important. The placebo effect has been scientifically proven. But when it comes to your personal view and understanding of life, it’s better to seek than to believe. Because no one can explain my life to me and how best to live it. I have to find myself and my life for myself.“
„The other child playing looked at the world through the circle of understanding and said: If it is said that art and culture are unprofitable and therefore meaningless, then one forgets that it is film that makes us laugh. The story that makes you cry. The song that makes you sing and dance. The image that makes you feel. The arts that bring your own creative imagination to life. The arts that remind you of your deepest humanity. The arts that make us human.“
„The playing child looks at the world through the circle of knowledge and says: Emotion is usually the trigger for change, but the drive for awareness is rarely the thought. Change will be a feeling, not a thought. In rational thoughts, we will always find a reason why a change is not good. But often we cannot explain major changes in our lives other than that they feel right.“
„The two sisters sang in canon. A tree grows from the earth, giving oxygen and life. It dies and becomes soil, from which new life grows. Energy never dies, it only transforms, and perhaps this is also true of our life energy and our soul. It never dies, it only transforms, and we are together forever.“
„The child of philosophy said: One of the greatest gifts I have received from nature is easy access and conscious awareness of my instincts. To my original humanity and to my indigenous soul. And from my childhood on, I have refused to live a life that is unnatural to me as a human being. As a result, my mind is free, my soul is strong, and my heart has remained soft.“
„The child of the moon said: I am like a stone polished by the sea. The stone is my soul and the sea is life. The sea has tides. Sometimes it is calm, sometimes stormy, and sometimes a stormy wave comes out of nowhere. It is unpredictable, unforeseeable, uncontrollable. And although it is made of the softest water, it grinds me from a rough stone into a soft work of art.“
„The orphan child said: those who love their children, those who love life, their country, the world, and those who love themselves will not start a war. For those who start wars have started the worst war that can be started, namely the war against themselves.“
„In Ukraine, a girl painted a picture of her mother on the floor of her orphanage. Very carefully, she took off her shoes, lay down on the chest of her painted mother, and fell asleep.“
„The creativity of john coltrane sprak: we can live out our self-destructive urge in a positive way. By completely emptying ourselves in meditation. We stop thinking and being. Through this complete emptying, we can then allow ourselves to be completely filled. Filled by and with creation. This makes us more creative and perceptive, calmer and more powerful. Because we have positively destroyed ourselves in meditation and allowed ourselves to be recreated by creation. We are like dead and reborn.“
„The spirit of Picasso spoke: Why do we humans have this self-destructive urge? Many people destroy themselves through alcohol and cigarettes or other drugs. Through poor nutrition or an unhealthy lifestyle and stress. They know it is wrong and do it anyway. Now this self-destructive urge has gotten so out of control that we are destroying our earth, our habitat, all life, not just our own. Why do we have this self-destructive urge? Perhaps because deep down in our subconscious we know that before every creation, before every new beginning, there is destruction. That is why we are slowly destroying ourselves in installments. Because we actually want to live. But live differently. Because we do not feel that this modern life is right. Perhaps we are destroying ourselves because we subconsciously hope for a new beginning. We need a new perspective on life, a new philosophy.“
„The artist said to the girl from Eschersheim: Our love is like that of children. So open and honest and unconditional. It is giving and taking at the same time. It is like a river that flows unconditionally and always flows along all its paths. And always finds new paths. It flows day and night through all times forever and ever.“
„The girl’s dog said: Artists are the children of creation. Because they themselves create and give life to make people think and to make people feel. Like children, they follow in the great footsteps of their holy mother. Which is Mother Nature, the great creator.“
„The artist spoke through the indigenous child: The most important and the most difficult thing is to reflect on yourself. Because we have been inside ourselves from the very first minute of our lives. Seeing yourself from a distance, as objectively as possible, is very difficult, but absolutely necessary. It’s like a picture i’m painting. If i never take a step back to look at it from a distance, it would never turn out right.“
„The child who came in from the cold said: We lived in and with nature for a long time. We were weaker than many mammals, but a special form of consciousness helped us to become the dominant group of all life. By forming groups that were too large for our minds to understand, we lost our individuality. We had to learn to function in order to keep these large communities going. We lost our necessary right to be ourselves. This triggered frustration and aggression in us and caused destructive behavior towards the foreign and the individual. We need a new understanding and new ideas for a new way of living together, characterized by awareness, perception, and love.“
„The sibling child said: I am like the tree on the cliff by the sea. I see the abyss and the danger, but i also see the horizon, the infinity, and the beauty. I am bent and tanned by the tides and strongly rooted in the rock. It doesn’t rain much, but i don’t need much. For centuries I have stood on the cliff, crooked and bent, and watch the world.“
„The physicist spoke through the artist’s child: Atoms are the smallest particles of which all material things are made. Atoms are made up of elementary particles. These can be thought of as concentrations of energy. These concentrations of energy work together to form the atom and thus matter. Quantum physicists describe this act not as material but as spiritual. The origin of everything is spiritual energy, which is at work in everything. It is mathematically calculable and explainable and empirically provable. It is the first time in human history that we do not need religion or similar to explain the connection between spirit and matter.“
„In the world of sensitive perception, a child said: We are our reality. We would be upset if someone said that the moon doesn’t actually exist. Because we can see it. The moon exists for us because we perceive it with our senses. If we didn’t have these senses, then we wouldn’t perceive it. And we would say, there is no moon. And we would get upset if someone tried to explain to us that a moon exists. The only one who never gets upset is the moon itself. It doesn’t care whether it exists or not.“
„The child of the universe said: People who have a sense of aesthetics often also have a sense of ethics. Because people who have a sense of beauty often also have a sense of justice. Justice is beauty. Sharing is beautiful. Giving is beautiful. Caring is beautiful. Doing good for others is beautiful. Giving and sharing means that you have enough. Doing good for people and caring for them means that you are doing well enough. It is something natural, a deep desire, and a feeling of beauty.“
„The generations recognized and said: Our consciousness is very complex, but if you want to simplify it, then consciousness is equal to recognition. We are aware of something. We recognize that this makes us a special and creative species in our form. We recognize connections and can thus come up with ideas and create things. Pairing this consciousness, however, we have a not particularly extensive intellect. For example, we could recognize how to make fire, but did not understand the far-reaching consequences. Namely, that by making fire, our entire environment could burn down. By training our attention, we can observe ourselves better. And we can understand ourselves and the world better. And life would become easier.“
„We lived in nature and spoke through our children. Philosophy is the love of wisdom. It is the love of creation and the love of nature. The creation of nature is the strongest force and wisest creation that we humans can observe. And we have the opportunity to learn from it.“
„The child on our path said: A very difficult human behavior to understand is when people have had a bad childhood and have experienced a lot of suffering. Why do they pass it on to their children? They try to make their suffering seem normal in order to reduce their own suffering. They do this mostly completely unconsciously. To escape this spiral of bad and destructive behavior, it is necessary to become aware and honestly confront your own childhood and your own feelings in order to leave the suffering behind and be able to recognize beauty again. Let the suffering go so that you can give love again.“
„A child looked at the tree and said: Sometimes when I observe nature, I realize how small I am. Just a tiny part of the great outdoors. And it’s nice to be small. Being small means giving up control. Being a part of something means not being alone. Nature gives me a sense of security and the feeling that everything is good just the way it is.“
„The smallest particle spoke through the child: In quantum physics, there is an explanation for when a particle is divided. One part goes to one place and the other part goes to a far-off place. When one of the two is stimulated, the other reacts simultaneously. This is something that actually happens in our world at the smallest level. And this is just one incredible example of many. We may not perceive this world of the smallest, but it is a part of us. Interestingly, we feel such moments. We would describe them as mystical or spiritual. Because we cannot explain them, we create religions and spirituality in all possible forms. From these our deeper unconscious emotions. Quantum physics seen as a philosophy could explain many things to us in a scientific way, without believing. We could have proven and incredible things explained to us and see and be amazed. Quantum physics, explained as a philosophy, could reinvent our view of the world and our thinking.“
„Waves and particles communicate with each other and simultaneously through the child: The explanation of quantum physics as a philosophy could be explained as follows. For example, the divided particles that can communicate with each other over a long distance in real time, and only these two, because they once were one. Many people have the feeling that there is such a thing as soulmates or something like telepathy. In the world of the smallest particles, in quantum physics, these are not spiritual fantasies. As some would say. Rather, they are proven and scientifically observed phenomena. We appear to perceive this smallest world through our deepest intuitive feelings and explain it to ourselves as soulmates, telepathy, rebirth, or similar. Through quantum physics, we can overcome fears that arise from a lack of understanding and rediscover and understand ourselves in a whole new way.“
„The bird fled around the moon and said: I want to paint and write, because that is my strongest urge. That is what I am. I don’t want wealth and fame, no conflict with the state or people. I want to paint and write, because that is what I am.“
„The bird flying to the star said: Maybe we have to fall in life to learn how to get up again. Just like children when they learn to walk, they fall and get up again. Even if they cry, they will try again. Sometimes there is no other option after a bad fall than to cry and get up again, just like a child.“
„The children at the tree said: Why do we humans have this strong urge to be free? This urge for freedom that no dictator could suppress, no money could buy, and no ideology could prohibit. Why do we humans have this strong urge for freedom? Because we feel deep down that we can only be creative and think freely in freedom. And this creativity is one of the strongest forces we can experience. It is our response to our problems and our way of finding solutions. Our love of freedom is so important for our survival.“
„The children at the tree spoke simultaneously and together. For those who suffer. For those who are sad. For those who have lost loved ones. Our subconscious is like an ocean and the waves of sadness come in bursts. When a strong wave comes, accept it. Let yourself go with it. Cry and find the right moment to breathe. It will pass. After it, the calm phase will return. The wave flattens out again. Try to make the calm phases of the sea as beautiful as possible in this sad situation. Not to distract yourself, but to find beautiful thoughts. The more you loved someone, the bigger the scar on your soul will be. You will probably carry it with you for the rest of your life. But it will hurt less and less. Live for your loved ones. – For Nikki – You are forever in the hearts of our children and mine.“
Heiliger Ort – Sacred Place
INFOTHEK
Artist: INDIAN
Website: https://www.indiant2b.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indian_t2b
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Interview: https://hearthis.at/radio-x-interviews/indian
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