Dissecting the work of a graffiti prophet

   The physical realm is but a minimal projection of an all-encompassing conceptual sphere.

   Our imaginations, our minds, endless sets of open eyes within us — each perceive different realities simultaneously. We coexist with fundamentally similar goals of love and understanding.

   This past winter, I read the words of a graffiti prophet, humbly scribbled in paint marker on a bathroom wall: "We will transcend the final reality once we all realize that we share the same God."

   One last word, I feel, must be added to extend the vandalism: ourselves.

    The meaning of life has been questioned worldwide since the dawning of man. The lyric quoted is one that, I believe, expresses a truth within the paradox of existence. Man requires certainty within the physical paradigm of reality — certainty based on understanding. We have always sought understanding, which is based on truth.   

   This is witnessed in all aspects of life: society, government, religion, ethics, love, friendship, etc. The truth all too often remains a secret, and is even more hidden from the unaware or uninterested observer. The question of God has been linked many times to the question of truth, furthermore, linked to a problematic theory of an absolute truth. It is said that God will hide   from those who do not believe and reveal Himself to those who do.

   However, the question of an absolute truth — that is, God and his/her existence, the extent of his/her role, creation, etc. — these things are not my aim here. 

   I merely claim to emphasize the power of the mind and perception over the facade of the purely visual.

   We will transcend the final reality — the final tangible reality — once we all realize that we share the same God: ourselves. We are all governed by ourselves and are simultaneously one collective being. This is proven by perception. Because we all perceive different realities simultaneously, we all coexist outside the limits of reality and are in turn governed by the power of our individual — and yet collective — mind. Man has an undeniable energy that pulses from the inside out; hence, the reality that we each see and do not see is universal.

   Our graffiti prophet pursues the ideals of an advanced society, the new questions of a progressing being, to where mankind must reach. I am advocating the counter-culture of the collective conscious.

   Society and technology have continually evolved throughout the centuries. Hopefully one day the individual may evolve to a new level of understanding with no question of ethics or morality. Conventions such as those mentioned would become truths, in the sense that they would be understood, making way for new expansions of the individual self. That is the evolution of Man: transcendence.

   I guess there are two morals here: We are all linked through the energy of the individual and collective mind, and if you share your thoughts as a street artist, share something to yield cognition.