{"id":127,"date":"2025-07-07T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daledivoky.art\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:26:06","slug":"early-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daledivoky.art\/?page_id=127","title":{"rendered":"Early Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Dale&#8217;s student years the idea, &#8220;What stuff &#8217;tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn&#8221;, (from Shakespeare&#8217;s play, The Merchant of Venice), became a manifesto and a quest to learn just that &#8211; what stuff tis made of and whereof it is born&#8230; Art was the means, not by just the finished piece, but through the creative process, to fulfill the quest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When&nbsp;still in college and during a silent moment while working on a drawing\/painting, a very clear thought came for a new direction\u2026 Learn to Meditate. It came from out of nowhere, or perhaps from whereof stuff is born?<br>As more time elapsed, while searching for the right meditation, Transcendental Meditation was fortunately discovered and has continued to be enjoyed regularly to&nbsp;this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the growing knowledge and experience of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi&#8217;s Vedic Science, a deeper understanding of the quest became a reality. Art was no longer a means to the quest. 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