The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Front Cover
Front Cover
The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Title Page "The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a pre-determined form. The organic form on the other hand is innate. It shapes as it develops itself from within." -- Coleridge "In the bosom of the rose seed is the whole ideal, yet it roots before bears. Each seed has its own ideal, the body becoming the expression of will and external form. . . .The is in the Organic. . . . "
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 1 underlay "The cosmos, nature, forces, the volitional power to emerge, develop, sustain, relate, harmonize. . . ."
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 2 underlay " The snowflake, the seashell, the crystal in their eternal patternings and configurings. . . ."
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 3 underlay " . . . Limited to prescribed laws yet limitless in the inventive, creative, potentiality of harmonized beauty. . . "
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 4 underlay ". . . Principles unbroken. . .Transcendent within limits. . . "
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 5 underlay ". . . Cognition, reflection, compassion bequeathed to man. . . a potentiality given -- unurtured, subsumed, obliterated. . . "
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 6 underlay "The more desensitized, the more powerful in a corrupted system of subtle mind obliterating, brainwashing methodologies under the easily palatable guise of banal and violent entertainment. . . ."
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The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 7 underlay "Conditioned and being conditioned by the superficial and excessive. . .a world of self indulgent, plugged-in, sub-human money machines -- finer sensitivity vibrations soon to be near extinct. . . . "
The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Back page
The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Back inside cover
The Ideal is in the Organic by Audra Skuodas Image: Back cover
  • Audra Skuodas
  • The Ideal is in the Organic, 1998
  • Gold paper, rag paper, color pencil, graphite pencil, fabric, acrylic paint
  • 19.75 x 12.75 x 0.75 in
  • Inv: 000158BOOK
  • Available

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Handmade and bound artist book with illustration and text by artist. Quote from Coleridge on title page.

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