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Troy R. Bishop
I began creating art in the early 1980's, initially as illustrations for my writings. My computer art began in the mid 90's. The inspirations and insights in my work are grounded in my own inner light and in the light shared by others. My art is dedicated to exploring and expressing the truth, in its varied phases, that all things are part of something greater and vastly wonderful. I feel that it is the mission of any transcendent art to bring to life the truth expressed by words like these, for example, from deep within the heart of the poet, J. R. Lowell: "Or on the hillside, always unforewarned, a grace of being, finer than himself, that beckons and is gone--,a larger life. A larger life upon his own impinging, with swift glimpse of spacious circles luminous with mind" Transcendence is sometimes mistaken to signify a single, rather than a dual, state of being. To transcend something is not to exist at a level above it, but rather to exist within it or at its level, yet simultaneously to rise above it. To realize a dual-level existence, as it were. Angels do not transcend the physical. They simply exist above it -- or more correctly, outside and independent of it. But humans sometimes do. This dualistic nature of transcendence should permeate any work of transcendent art. And always -- always! -- it should point to the true, the beautiful, and the good.
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