"Defining the Empathicist" by LORD TOPH

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Defining An "Empathicist"
LORD TOPH

Empathy

em·pa·thy [em-puh-thee]
–noun
1.the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.
2.the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of the self.
[Origin: 1900–05; < Gk empátheia affection, equiv. to em- em-2 + path- (base of páschein to suffer) + -eia -ia; present meaning translates G Einfühlung]

As children, so often times we were told, "jvst paint what yov feel." In retrospect, as a child I did exactly that. Yet as we progress in matvrity and age, we transgress in ovr empathic awareness only to be reconditioned to believe in only what we see is defined as reality. This point of "view," vnconciovsly reprograms ovr thovght to rationalize and overrvle what we feel. In tvrn, we trade a limitless sense of emotional expression and detection, for a more stabilized boundary controlled consciovsness. It is the "natvre of the hvman" to become this way...yet, not "hvman natvre."
The empathicist feels first, then sees second in order to create. This is most likely occvrring dvring the execvtion of brvsh to canvas and stroke. In order to see, one mvst think. Yet this process is svperceded by feeling. In example...as a person with eyes closed, blindfolded, or even blind; after so long, they begin to feel the objects svrrovnding them long before tovching them or bvmping into them. In this state (with "eyes wide shvt" as one might say), the individval becomes reawakened to instinct, and liberated to a higher sense of intvitiveness and svbconsciovsness. This is when the emapathicist is inspired, or rather "in-spired". to create ("spire" in definition, simply means a point, pinnacle, or svmmit). He or she focvses on, and becomes more in tvned to painting from feel, as opposed to sight. The techniqve of brvsh stroke, choice of svbject matter, or medivm is redirected when the artist begins to create based on empathy...hence redefining the artist's creative process, and style completely. As it has been coined in phrase..."the blind leading the blind"...this may be so in many contemporary styles...bvt the vision...leads the empathicist.