Live pure and simple - creative solutions for an elegant life

I imagine picturing the interconnectedness between people, whilst embracing & affirming life. I want to communicate an idea of intensified, sophisticated simplicity, which makes room for what is wild, powerful, sensual and beautiful.I thus present my work in a lighter, warmer, more uplifting light – reflecting on our true perfection and conclusively arrive at a fresh, experimental approach which turns out to be quite unique, colourful and free-flowing. From the begining of my artistic career I specialized in dynamic, tactile, multi-layered patterns, whilst reflecting on our constant transition and physical complexity. Please see: www.annett-bank.co.uk

We need to give beauty a more relevant place in life and care for the soul, since the soul is nurtured by beauty. It’s not only pleasure and conviviality we thrive upon, but also on beauty, which is ultimately necessary for the return of the soul.Many of the beliefs that contemporary culture subscribes to today is that art is purely aesthetic and will never change the world. I believe however that when art actively engages with people’s issues it is often intensely aesthetic, because it responds compassionately to whatever it is touched by and is therefore helping to create a more beautiful world.

regaining buoyancy

When you have aquired enough enery, you are ready to consciously engage evolution, to start flowing , to produce the coincidences that will lead you forward. Remember to stop as often as neccessary to re-connect your energy. Stay full, stay in a state of love. Remember that once you achieve this state of love, nothing nor anyone can pull more energy from you than you can replace in fact, the energy flowing out of you creates a current that pulls energy into you at the same rate. You can never run out, but you must stay conscious of this process in order for it to work. This is especially important when you interact with people. Let you perception of beauty and irredescence lead your way. Places and people who have answers for you will appear more attractive and luminous.

implacable challengers

For many years it looked as if I had gone through life like a corpse empowered to walk and talk, but not to feel anything/ Having no concentration whatsoever to pursue any subject beyond a shallow attempt. The impression I had that nothing had been significant whatsoever. I had been reared just to act without ever stopping to feel anything. My parents brought me into this world to be food, like themselves and everyone else, and that's the end of the story.

Nobody ever asked me to if I would consent to be eaten by beings of a different kind of awareness. They are our implacable challengers and also the means by which the universe tests us. Give compassion to them, it is not their fault.

dream of an animal

Man must have been a complete being at one point, with stupendous insights and feats of awareness that are mythological legends nowadays. ...man, the magical being that he is destined to be, is no longer magical. He is an average piece of meat. There are no more dreams for man but a dream of an animal who is being raised in captivity to become trite, conventional, imbecilic.
All of that seems to have made us sedated, obidient, meak and weak. We have given our power away and were instead encouraged to be coveteous, greedy and coward. We must give up our complacency, routine and egomanic behaviour. It can be done.

Discipline is the only deterrent for humanity and the real battle is truely within: arrange for this internal fight and start with silencing the mind, that's all it takes.

Start living again after a lifetime of domination that has rendered us shy, insecure and shifty. It is an Art: the art of facing all the odds without flinching - become filled with awe, as we are the means by which the universe becomes aware of itself.

On individuation

There is nothing more attractive and convincing then spontaneity.

...we know of individuals who are spontaneous, whose thinking, feeling and acting were the expression of their selves and not of an automaton. These individuals are mostly known to us as artists. As a matter of fact, the artist-like the child- can be defined as an individual who can express herself spontaneously. The position of the artist is vulnerable though, for it is really only the successful artist whose individuality or spontaneity is respected; if she doesn't succeed in selling her art, she remans to her contemporaries a crank, a "neurotic". The artist in this matter is in a similar positition to that of the revolutionary .

on distractions

We miss living the abundant joy that is already present inside us every moment, when we search for happiness in the future. Instead of embracing the unknown moment by moment, we avoid it by distracting ourselfes with different activities like working, eating, watching TV, smoking, fantasizing about the future etc. Only with absolute awareness can we stay present and bring peace and joy to ourselfes and others.

on unconsciousness

Most of humanity lives under the influence of the collective veil of illusion, unable to break out of it. It is difficult to break through this veil because the weight and gravitation field of humanity's unconscious is too heavy. The world's power structures (economic, political and religious) have an investment in keeping the masses unconscious. It is the only way that they can keep their authority alive and dictate how everyone should live. Those in charge of these structures are afraid that the masses break free of the collective veil - they won't be controllable anymore and won't do what they are told. To break free of the collective veil of illusion, you must find the courage and determination to face your social and religious conditioning and .......stand alone in your individual truth.

on reconnection

The findings of physics, psychology, mysticism and religion are all coming together now and forming into a new synthesis based on a changed perception of coincidences and increased insights.