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Robert Eustace is currently working on a 'life thesis' written project concerning the themes of: [Childhood, Mentoring, Art as Calling and Vocation, Destiny]. He is at work with the continuation of his ongoing "Aenigmate" series of wall pieces or mixed media Altarpiece Constructions, as well as conducting some new experiments towards future ways of art making. As each new work unfolds and finds its place and personality in the whole, some basic themes of the series are: The Mother and Child - Life of Mary / the Passion of Christ / the Apocalypse / the Heavenly City / the Park as 'Eden' or paradise garden / the Window as portal to divine grace and mercy / floor plans for church and labyrinth. Lastly, some artworks are concerned with more primitive intuitive abstractions and center around studies in alchemy and mysticism. Eustace is also deeply engaged with music – everything from forms of ancient chant to European avant-jazz to current left field ambient techno and electronica (the influence of which has had a nurturing and sustaining effect on this work)

“I am primarily interested in space (or the charting of a deeply personal and resonant space as it relates to mysticism and memory). In the ever-changing realm of artistic creation, I am forever searching for a zone, an open space, a place of calm to call my own, an area open to imagination and revelation…. Standing here at the end of time on the springboard of eternity; staring in the face of civilization - the sheer weight of all that has already been said and done; the party long over and only crumbs remaining on the table, …I seek to capture the fragile sparkling of the last interstices as I reach in faith out to the void, create and pull something of substance back into the here and now.”

Some of my favorite valuable Quotes pertaining to Art and Life:

(1) "And the end of all our exploring * will be to arrive where we started * And know the place for the first time". * T.S. Eliot *

(2) "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek * to rediscover through the detours of Art, * those two or three great and simple images * in whose presence his heart first opened". * Albert Camus *

(3) "And you wait, await the one thing * that will infinitely increase your life; * the gigantic, the stupendous, * the awakening of stones, * depths turned round toward you". * Rainer Maria Rilke *

(4) "Go now into the great latitude that awaits you out there, the reality that is not closing but opening. Seize it in your two hands even as you embrace it and wrestle the meaning from it in your thirst. But never forget that only the acceptance at the close will yield the mystery of wholeness to you, the thing you desire most of all. You have to lose your life in order to save it. You have to expend yourself in order to find yourself. You gain your life only by giving it up". * Brother Antoninus / William Everson - poet (1912-1994) *

(5) "Empty space is a place where man wishes to find asylum and save himself from things and instruments.... In this empty space he wishes to stand outside views, images, and conceptions, outside struggle and existence which has shattered into little pieces like ice that hinders his movements, pushing him in different directions.... He seeks spaciousness... he will find a location that is without path".... * Kasimir Malevich *

[On the Spiritual in Art] from: KASIMIR MALEVICH, publication: 'THE ARTIST', p. 271, edited by Troels Andersen, 1978

(6) "A good craftsman learns when it is time to stop. Further work is likely to degrade... it is time to stop: just at the moment when one is tempted to erase all traces of the work's production in order to make it seem like a pristine object". * author: Richard Sennett *

[On Craftmanship and Quality Driven Work] from the book: 'THE CRAFTSMAN', by RICHARD SENNETT, Yale University Press, p. 262, 2008

Please feel free to check out 'My Official Artists Website' : www.sainteustacefineart.com -as well as- www.artistsspace.org/roberteustace

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

* * I would like to help foster a community of like minded creative people and resources to share, network, interact with - with the intent to uncover some lasting friendships.* *

* * BEGINNING IN LATE MARCH 2008 and FEATURED On The New 'MySpace' [10 Song Capacity] MULTI-PLAY MUSIC PLAYER: * This site has showcased the following list of songs/works and artists/composers: NOTE: [Please enjoy my specially selected music choices from around the world and beyond - thank you for listening and sharing]: * * * * * * * * * *

* * (1) "Bordeaux Sequence", 1987, from: THE DURUTTI COLUMN, Manchester, UK, [the CD - "THE GUITAR AND OTHER MACHINES"], Factory and Factory Too + category: Indie - Experimental - Comedy * * (2) "Vaka", 2007, from: SIGUR ROS, Reykjavik, Iceland, [the CD - "HVARF-HEIM"], EMI + category: Visual * * (3) "I Don't Mind", 2006, from: TRESPASSERS WILLIAM, Seattle, Washington, [the CD - "HAVING"], Nettwerk + category: Rock - Ambient - Folk * * (4) "Left Side Drive", 2006, from: BOARDS OF CANADA, Scotland, [the EP - "TRANS CANADA HIGHWAY"], Warp Records + category: Psychedelic - Electronics - Experimental * * (5) "Zum Wohl", 1976, from: CLUSTER, Berlin, Germany, [the CD - "SOWIESOSO"], Sky Records + category: Eexperimental - Ambient - Electronics * * (6) "Cloudless", 1993, reissued 2007, from: CRANES, Portsmouth, UK, [the CD - "FOREVER"], Cherry Red + category: Alternative - Indie - Electronics * * (7) "Flocks III" (edit), 2008, from: COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, [the CD - "BIRDS"], Radium/Table of Elements + category: Experimental - Rock * * (8) "Blind", no date, from: SWANS, Brooklyn, NY, [the 2CD set - "VARIOUS FAILURES" 1988-1992 (Yellow Disc)], Young God Records + category: Alternative - Experimental - Psychedelic * * (9) "It's Your Love Baby", 2006, from: THE DURUTTI COLUMN, Manchester, UK, [the CD - "DC sub 06"], Kooky Disc + category: Indie - Experimental - Comedy * * (10) "Stating the Obvious": from: TREFOR GORONWY, Northhampton, Moscow, London, UK, [independently recorded and produced - NO CD of yet], NO CURRENT LABEL + category: Other - Other - Other * * (11) "Damage", 1993, from: DAVID SYLVIAN, UK, New Hampshire - USA, [the CD - "LIVE IN TOKYO"], EMI - (more recently: Samadhisound) + category: Other * * (12) "Transient", no date, from: PLUXUS, COLOGNE, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, [the CD - "SOLID STATE"], KOMPAKT + category: Electronica - Experimental - Techno

* * (13) "Ballad of Distances", 2001, from: STARS OF THE LID, Austin, Texas and Tolletville, Belgium, [the 2CD - "THE TIRED SOUNDS OF STARS OF THE LID"], Kranky + category: Classical = Ambient - Minimalist * * (14) "Chanson de Guerre", 2006, from: GHOSTS OF BRESLAU, Wroclaw, Poland, [the minicd - "GAS"], Z-Bugle + category: Industrial - Ambient - Folk * * (15) "Ohne Welt", 2007, from: GRAUMAHD, Vienna, Austria, [the CD - "V/A nonpop no. 1"], nonpop.de/Hau Rock! + category: Folk - Progressive - Psychedelic * * (16) "This Is My Life", 2007, from: INSTITUTION D.O.L., Austria, [the CD - "INSTRUCTIONS FOR MODERN WEAKNIKS"], Steinklang Records + category: Industrial - Chinese Pop - Power Pop * * (17) "Vespers", 2007, from: NOVEMTHREE, Milton, Washington, [the CD - "split w/ ARROWHEAD"], LSR, Little Somebody Records + category: Acoustic - Folk - Other * * (18) "Reigen", 2006, from: NEBELUNG, Bonn - Windeck, Germany, [the 7" record - "REIGEN"], Eis + Licht Records + category: Acoustic - Folk - Ambient * * (19) "Jorvalier", 2008, from: JORVALIR, Alsace, France, [the CD - "JORVALIR"], unsigned - no label + category: Folk - Experimental - Industrial * * (20) "Feel and the Seas Fill", 2005, from: LANDING, Middletown, Connecticut, [the CD - "SPHERE"], K Records, also: Strange Attractors, Audio House + category: Ambient - Psychedelic - Experimental * * (21) "No Sacrifice No Victory", recent undated, from: GHOST OF A FLEA - BRITISH IRON AGE PROJECT, [the recording - no CD], unsigned - no label + category: Industrial - Folk - Experimental * * (22) "Blanket Fields" (excerpt), 2007, from: SON OF ROSE (KAMRAN SADEGHI), Seattle, Washington, [the CD - "06-07 FALLING FORWARD"], Dragon Eye Recordings + category: Ambient - Experimental - Electronic * * (23) "Victorian Machine Music 1", 2006, from: PLINTH (MICHAEL FERNANDO TANNER), Dorset, UK, [the CD - "PLAYS VICTORIAN MACHINE MUSIC"], Rusted Rail Recordings - also: Durtro Jnana - Dorset Paens + category: Experimental - Classical - Minimalist * * (24) "Part III", 2008, from: WE ALL INHERIT THE MOON, "in a galaxy far, far away".... Antarctica, [the 5 song 'mini LP - "WE ALL INHERIT THE MOON"], Futurerecordings US - Panic Arrest UK + category: Melodramatic Popular Song

* * (25) "Forest of Spades Leafy Remix", 2008 (May release), from: LEAFCUTTER JOHN, London, UK, ["FOREST OF SPADES - STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS/ LEAFCUTTER REMAKE" * CD with other remixes by STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS], Belgian label OFF + category: Folk - Electronica - Experimental * * (26) "Are We Still the Good Guys", 2008, from: CANYONS OF STATIC, "To be or not to be. That's not really a question".... West Bend (Wisconsin) US, [the CD - "THE DISAPPEARANCE"], Former Airline Records + category: Ambient - Experimental - Shoegaze * * (27) "Can You Get", 2008, from: BELL GARDENS (KENNETH JAMES GIBSON and EDWARD McBRIDE and others), "for the burdened deep", Silver Lake/Cho Park, CA, [unreleased track - no CD], unsigned - no label + category: Melodramatic Popular Song - Folk Rock - Psychedelic * * (26) "Mist on the Sea", 2008, from: OPITOPE (CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA and TOMOYOSHI DATE), Japan, [the CD - "OPITOPE"], SPEKK Recordings + category: Ambient - Experimental - Electro Acoustic * * (27) "Tranoy Lighthouse" (recent date ?), from: BIOSPHERE (GEIR JENSSEN), Norway, [Special Recording - no CD], BIOPHON Recordings + category: Ambient * * (28) "No Information O.R.M.E Dub" (ZAGA Remix), 2008, from: O.R.M.E. (POPPY and HOLLY), UK, with ZAGA (Producer), Barcelona, Spain, [Special Recording - no CD], unsigned - no label + category: Alternative - Experimental - Electro * * (29) "Blue Mountain", 2005, from: ESPERS, Philadelphia, PA, [the CD - "THE WEED TREE"], Drag City Records, also: Locust Music, Wichita, Time Lag + category: Psychedelic - Folk - Other * * (30) "Images of April", 1968, from: PEARLS BEFORE SWINE (TOM RAPP), "Did you follow the crystal swan"?, Bottineau, ND, [the CD - "BALAKLAVA"], E.S.P. DISC + category: Folk Rock - Psychedelic - Experimental * * (31) "Another Time", 1967, from: PEARLS BEFORE SWINE (TOM RAPP), [the CD - "ONE NATION UNDERGROUND"], E.S.P. DISC * * (32) "Summer Solstice", 2005, from: OF THE WAND & THE MOON, Bornholm, Denmark, [the CD - "SONNENHEIM"], Heidrunar Myrkrunar / Tesco Distribution + category: Folk - Industrial - Experimental * * (33) "Cheraderama", 1991, from: THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, "Sing While You May".... Netherlands, [the CD - "THE MARIA DIMENSION"], ROIR + catagory: Psychedelic - Experimental - Alternative * * (34) "Sheep Season", 1972, from: MELLOW CANDLE, "For the 32nd time, I want no water with my wine".... Dublin, Dublin Ireland, [the CD - "SWADDLING SONGS"], SNB, Deram + category: Folk Rock - Progressive - Psychedelic * * (35) "As It Is Before", 1968, from: EARTH OPERA (Peter Rowan and David Grissman....), Boston, MA, [the CD - "EARTH OPERA"], Elektra/Rhino (1968, 2008) + category: Psychedelic - Folk Rock - Experimental * * (36) "For Silence", 1995, from: FLYING SAUCER ATTACK (David Pearce), "Rural Psychedelia".... Bristol, UK, [the CD - "FURTHER"], FSA, VHF, Drag City, Domino + category: Experimental - Minimalist - Shoegazer


* * (37) "All that I am", 2008, from: THE SPILL OF INFINITY, Brisbane, Queensland Australia, [the CD - "TRUTH UNLEASHED"], Demonicon + category: Metal - Progressive - Death Metal * * (38) "El Camino Real", 2007, from: WILLIAM BASINSKI, NY, New York, Los Angeles, CA, [the CD - "EL CAMINO REAL"], 2062, raster-noton, 12k-line, durtro, 3 poplars + category: Ambient - Experimental * * (39) "gil equiseti", 2008, from: ALBIREON (I passi di liu out now!), "the fear of the black sun... the hope of daylight".... Reggio Emilia, Italy, [the CD - "I PASSI DI LIU"], Palace of Worms, Cynfeirdd, Final Muzik, OEC + category: Folk - Ambient - Experimental * * (40) "Waiting for You", 2007, from: IREZUMI, France, [the CD - "unmastered, un... (? released)"], SNOWBLOOD + category: Ambient - Electronica * *

My Blog

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* * CD Review: 5turns25 - Unexpected Delights in Electroacoustic Sound Worlds * *

* * CD Review: 5turns25 - Unexpected Delights in Electroacoustic Sound Worlds * * By Robert Eustace - Avant Sacred Artist www.myspace.com/roberteustace5turns25 is: John Kasiewicz and Dan Tres...
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* * CD Review: The Sonic Bliss of CANYONS OF STATIC,

By Robert Eustace - Avant Sacred Artist www.myspace.com/roberteustaceCANYONS OF STATIC (canyonsofstatic): "The Disappearance" 2008 Former Airline Records (FA002) Music and Lyrics by canyonsof...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:25:00 GMT

(My World) As It Is Today,....

By Robert Eustace - Avant Sacred Artist www.myspace.com/roberteustace Greetings All:It seems that we have crossed over 'the rubicon' - the great river divide marking the watershed event - and now th...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:18:00 GMT

My Ongoing Homage to: VINI REILLY / THE DURUTTI COLUMN

By Robert Eustace - Avant Sacred Artist www.myspace.com/roberteustaceTHE DURUTTI COLUMN, Manchester, UK, 1978 -to- present 'Post-Punk' and 'beyond definition'! Factory Records (now defunct) / Kooky ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:55:00 GMT

Thoughts on the mini epic soundscapes of STARS OF THE LID

By Robert Eustace - Avant Sacred Artist www.myspace.com/roberteustace'STARS OF THE LID' or SOTL [are comprised mainly of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie and others working in collaboration]. SOTL ori...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Some Passing Thoughts On the Ideas of Nature and the Real

By Robert Eustace - Avant Sacred Artist www.myspace.com/roberteustaceIt has become ever increasingly clear in our day that 'Nature' has become less and less that mysterious nurturing or animating fo...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 20:10:00 GMT