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A Stop on the Path to Shangri-La (2022) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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- Categories Drawings under $5,000 Symbolism Fantasy
Shangri-La isn't real, and yet it exists in most of us, a dreamed of place of tranquility, free of the evils we do to each other, a dream of what the world could be, if only we would let it.
In this image, a Buddhist monk travels by foot in the foothills before entering the mountains. The path is seldom trodden but marked with signs that hint at the wonders that lie ahead. Here the monk has reached a mysterious assembly of unusual features. A giant sandstone figure of a sleeping woman, mostly natural and partly carved by long forgotten craftsmen. Stone, egg-shaped boulders, the deposits of a long-gone glacier of the Great Ice Age ending 10,000 years before. The stone woman and many other stones are sandstone, once the sands of an ocean when this was a southern shore of the Asian Continent, and the Himalayas were not yet born. They rest upon a plate of Cambrian sediment showing the ripples of where a river met an ancient sea 500 million years ago, a remnant of the world before there were any animals to leave their marks upon it. I have held such 'fossils' in my hands and the experience is ... humbling to say the least. And sitting on this plate, a sandstone boulder has been carved by humans in the likeness of a guardian lion, one paw raised in welcome or warning to those that pass this way. In times like these ... and let me be clear, times are always like these ... we need the strength built up and passed to us by our ancestors. And at times we need to find our own versions of Shangri-La ... or at least the vision to seek the paths that lead us toward them.
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Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination.
As a child he excelled at drawing and as a teenager he began to experiment with oil painting. In college, he took courses in art and art history and realized that true art had nothing to do with the quality of the drawing or painting, but that it had to have the ambition to push the boundaries and expand the visual experience.
He also studied philosophy, psychology and history and quickly realized that it was just another art establishment trying to defend its elitist industry and reward system. Their skills were almost non-existent, they knew nothing about psychology, perception or stimulus response, and they were extensions of the belief system that made communism, fascism and other forms of totalitarianism such destructive forces in the world. They literally believe that art shouldn't be available to ordinary human beings, but only to an elite "sophisticated" enough to understand it.
Edwin Loftus realized that the emperors of art had no clothes, but they were still the emperors. Gifted in art, he worked hard to acquire this skill. So he found other ways to make a living and sold a few artworks from time to time. For sixty years, many people enjoyed his works and some collected them.
Today, Edwin Loftus is retired. Even if he sold all his paintings for the price he asked, "artist" would be the lowest paid job he ever had... but that's the way it is. It won't matter to him after he dies. He just hopes that some people will like what he does enough to enjoy it in the future.
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1951
- Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value,
- Groups: Certified Artists Contemporary American Artists
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