BOSTON CITY PROFILES

Suzanne Schultz

S You are a musician, an artist and you fly planes, how do these all relate to you?

L I grew up in the wilds of the countryside, and took in nature as a really big part of my whole being and existence of truth, no matter how stormy. All three avenues are really artistic expressions of that. The engineering and amazing natural phenomenon of flight, like birds, dreams or Icarus; music as it is relating to the human condition in consideration to the full spectrum of nature and ones own personal mythology; and then painting as a visual imagery sensation of all of this. All these then cycle back and work into your whole being. You fully enter the image of a painting, enter the sound of music, or enter the wonder of magical flight... to capture that inner Yugen. ( Japanese aesthetics for beyond what can be said in words)

S Do you listen to music when you paint and if so is it yours?

L Yes and No. My painting is an extension of my musical self at times, but also has its own genesis within me. So it can either be helpful or a hindrance. I usually do not listen physically though because I hear it within my inner being anyhow and it manifests itself that way more clearly. If I do listen it is usually my own new compositions that I am working on and then finding the visual imagery that comes out of it.

S   Is your muse the same or different for all that you do?

L It is the same. I would say my muse is the search for understanding of my own personal myth and how it relates to the universe at large, and the daemons of personified spirit energy as they take flight. Archetypal primordial imprints of being and anima goddess have been showing up a lot lately.   I believe I have been on this same journey all my life once I discovered my connection to nature, but did not realize it myself intellectually and spiritually at the time. It has been a slow self-discovery of revealing the context of ones existence through this muse, and through my endeavors with flight, music and painting. It is quite a journey and I still have a ways to go. I have been doing a lot studying and reflecting of philosophy and psychology once I started getting a better grasp of what was going on. Sometimes calm, sometimes very stormy.

S Who do you admire and why?

L I admire all people who have really found their way through their own true personal myth, and there by live their authentic true self in a positive manner. A true way of inner strength. I believe people who do this can make the world a much better place in various ways, and are not so much part of a herd that can cause all the destruction and chaos we see on a daily basis everywhere. I believe humans are intrinsically a good positive species that, unfortunately, have been heavily derailed in many ways.

S What do you do in down time if you have any?

L That's a toughie! The thing about being an artist the way I operate, is that one is pulling from ones own relative existence as a muse itself. So every conscious moment connection, every unconscious sleeping dream, every void between the space between, is part of the artistic moment that infiltrates the works. No matter how small it may seem, it is all a causal effect. It there by negates downtime; life is the art in itself, and one then takes an artful approach to life. And that artful approach to life is like Tao and the term Wu-Wei. Letting the universe and things unfold properly to their nature and not force it.

Matthias Lupri's art can be see at Masterpiece Gallery at The Boston Design Center

http://matthiaslupri2.wix.com/painter