“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Do you have any questions you would like to ask me?

I will tell you one thing. You have a deep distrust of the marketplace. A distrust so that you do not want to entrust your best works to it. You are not afraid to entrust lesser work to it in terms of commercial art. Portions of this feeling are hangovers from your father’s experience, and if you are aware of this you can combat it.

You feel the work is safe while you have it. You put in time and effort in the past to sell your commercial work, but have refused to do the same to sell your paintings. You are aware of this, I know.

What you do not seem to understand is that the search, to show and sell your paintings, will in itself provide fuel for future work. The search in itself will make you feel that you are doing your best to place your paintings so that they will be permanently displayed and cared for. You owe them that much.

(I have been doing this.)

Do you follow me now?

(I explained now to Jane that the material tonight was very good, and that I hadn’t given her clues to it, etc., especially as regards the color experiments, characterization, the full-figure work, the essentials required for drawing the full figure convincingly, etc. She did know about my plans to do full figures, however.

Now. I will tell you what you want to do in case you do not know.

You want to do your own people. You want to make your own people, and you want to make their environment. The people will come first, but then you will feel that their personality extends also into their environment.

In one way you have begun to do so, in the manner that you have chosen to paint clothing—that is, the types of clothing you have chosen to portray. The environment portion will come later, and you will sense the environment something like a mystic arrangement that a given personality throws about the world around him.

This is also reflected in the environment. By environment I mean those portions of the painting called background. They will attain greater vividness for you. You will see them as extensions of your people, rather than as the medium in which your people happen to appear. Do you have any questions on this material?