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Hildy Maze
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These works on paper in some sense signs and symbols, have an environmental quality made in the context of dependent arising, that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions, and impermanence, meaning they will age, become fragile, be affected by light yet will remain as those things we search for and cherish possibly in the attic or basement, an archeological site, or a memory. It is the nature of all things to decay yet remain
My work is intimately personal relating to the human condition, truth of impermanence, the incessant, discursive thoughts and emotions that prevent us from recognizing the empty, cognizant nature of mind and the seeds of clarity that await recognition. My process is fully intertwined with my Buddhist meditation practice; working with awareness of thoughts and emotions and awareness of the space between those thoughts which connects most directly to our hearts revealing a spontaneous spaciousness, a sudden glimpse of nowness.
Interdependence is a truth of life. There is no one thing that exists wholly independent of anything else. Everything in our lives arises in context, supported and affected by the right conditions to occur. We see things because of various intensities of light, sadness occurs because we experience loss, or a memory of loss, seeds grow into trees due to the sun, earth and water, and so on. What we experience is a duality of cause and effect, contrast and distinction, a continual state of movement growing and dying all around us each day. Understanding that all things exist in context, not as permanent entities, is fundamental to awareness, clearly seeing the true nature of reality as it is. In order for us to make sense of this world around us our mind assembles a structure of concepts; we label and explain everything, making distinctions, seeing separations, experiencing a world separate from ourselves. We forget that each concept, each thought arises as a result of a set of conditions. And our experience of those conditions may differ from the experience others have based on our emotional, physical and psychological history and habitual patterns . That is the heart of dependent arising: our experience of reality is dependent on causes and conditions just as everything around us. All of this is happening in a state of ongoing movement, change, decay, impermanence and death. Dependent arising describes the progression that enlivens this endless cycle of each moment. Recognizing this process can inspire releasing habitual patterns of thinking that create suffering, to experience things "as it is" as a fluid interdependent whole. We could see our thoughts and emotions as momentary, not representative of a solid truth eventually recognizing the unborn, intangible,clear nature of mind.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Brooklyn, educated at Pratt Institute studying graphic design. While at Pratt she worked part time and after graduation
full time at Push Pin Studio with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
She continued working with Milton Glaser Inc. while beginning to free-lance as a graphic designer/illustrator doing 3 dimensional assemblages and constructions . After several years of working commercially, she turned her attention to more personal work of painting and drawing in her loft in Tribeca, NYC. However.....
Hildy's genuine education began upon meeting Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation master. Spending 10 years with Trungpa Rinpoche until his death in 1987 she studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Shambhala art and culture, Dharma Art, brush stroke meditation practice, Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), all based on the mirror-like expansive wakeful nature of mind. Reflecting on the years with Trungpa Rinpoche and her ongoing meditation practice and study she absorbed and translated into her process and images what he transmitted, along with her personal experience of the recognition of the awakened nature of mind.
After 12 years of living in New York City Hildy moved to East Hampton, NY in 1984 to live and work in an environment she truly considers home, the ocean and bay where she experiences the vastness of the view of mind’s nature while feeding a club of seagulls for 15 years she calls "family". She can tell them apart
and knows who is coupled for life!
During the last several years Hildy Maze's work has involved simple paper. She says," paper has an organic environmental quality. It responds immediately to causes and conditions, is impermanent meaning it ages, becomes fragile, is affected by light yet will remain as those things we search for and cherish possibly in the attic or basement, an archeological site, or a memory. It is the nature of all things to decay yet remain".
Ms.Maze has exhibited her work in galleries in New York City, Long Island City,Queens,NY,
various galleries on the eastern end of Long Island including an invitation at Guild Hall and is in several private collections. both in the U.S and Europe.
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