Micheal Leyton and Art Triangle

In response to a post on a precise mathematical equation of synthesis one of my artistic friends expressed the mathematics being beyond his ken. Meditating on his thought, it suddenly dawned on me - "But this equation was derived using from an idea of an artist when he was a student in Univ of California Berkley in 90s named "Micheal Leyton" who was later a professor in the the Psychology Department and DIMACS center of Rutgers University." so let me try to express that triangle of synthesis through an artistic viewpoint.

Today as I sit in a guest house of Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Savitri being an artwork) watching the rising sun (Enjoy Image attached), I recollect the original idea of Micheal Leyton which was one of my inspirations to begin my doctoral work (in the sense I wondered at the beginning if there was a way to look at the music signal or artwork that gives us some clue regarding the consciousness of that artist). He wrote a few books on his theme of transfer where he said that an artist project a form of his creativity and then maximally transfers its across his art. It was this transfer which when I tried translating into a mathematical form took me into the arrows of category theory.

Then the triangle of synthesis when seen from the eyes of an artist is nothing but simply the Soul (or a certain inspirational level of consciousness) of an artist through his personality (the physical instrument) brings an outer form of the art (music, painting whatever that form may be)

Therefore the creative analogy (See the diagram) of the triangles of The Secret Doctrine and Treatise on Cosmic Fire is as follows:

Soul (of an artist) ------- Personality (Physical instrument of an artist) ------- ArtWork (The outer physical or tangible form of his creative art)

In other words - The soul expresses its abstraction through its lower vehicle of a personality and gives a physical form to it !

Attached - Images of Creative Artistic Triangle of Synthesis, Micheal leyton's

Shiva's Dance of Fire, 2005 Paintings, Oil on canvas Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary Art, A refresing morning view of Sea from Sri Aurobindo Ashram guest house.

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