PICASSO AND THE GAZE THAT BROKE THE MATRIX: ART AS A PORTAL TO EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS
- Yone Alvarez Boccardo
- Mar 22
- 4 min read
Artists are the great philosophers of aesthetics.
When an artist enters a moment of creation, they immerse themselves in a profound meditative state. As they dialogue with the progression and dynamism of their work, in this subtle trance, their body, mind, and spirit align with the purest torrent of Collective Consciousness.
And if in the process they manage to free themselves even further from their Ego, they can enter states of ecstasy amidst the elixir, where their Being opens the space for the Super Consciousness to express itself through them.
Then their art ceases to be solely theirs and becomes a revelation, a message, and a portal.
Pablo Picasso is, without a doubt, one of the most influential artists of modernity. His work marked a before and after, not only in art, but also in the way we perceive reality.
The curious thing is that, without declaring himself an initiate in spirituality or having cultivated the scientific depth of Leonardo da Vinci, he left a mark that continues to resonate in humanity's Collective Unconscious to this day.
Why was his fractured and fragmented work so powerful in our perception? What did Picasso really see?
Picasso did not paint what the human eye sees, but what the eye of the Spirit, the Super Consciousness, observes and transmits through it.
He didn't seek to reproduce the world as it "is", but rather to break it down into fragments that revealed its underlying structure. He sensed that behind all those forms there was "something", a vibration that was hidden and moving beneath, behind, and within objects. And like a child, he saw, from the purity of his consciousness, the subtle languages of creation that emerged before him "with the naked eye".
He saw how everything was made of geometry, colors, and beautiful, sensitive frequencies. And by being able to break down forms, he perceived the existence of planes and dimensions outside of this space and time, those invisible languages that sustain everything we see.
His art is not a representation of the world, but a key that opens a door to a Fractal Dimension of Consciousness. His canvases are fractal windows, portals through which we can peer into deeper realities of the creation of our universe.
When Picasso's gaze broke with Linear Perception, he enabled the intersection between the human and the divine, and his eye briefly touched the Eye of Creation.
For those familiar with the codes of Sacred Geometry, observing the work of a Master touching one of the essential languages of Creation is undoubtedly a delight. The fragmentation in his work is not only an aesthetic decision; it is in itself the rupture of the perceptual matrix to reveal underlying states. It is a revolutionary act of the soul.
From my own meditative states, I wanted to immerse myself in that fragmented perception of Creation. I began to awaken within myself "Picasso's gaze": I looked at the tip of my nose and began to play with my windows to the world. I understood that to access those levels of vision, one must take three or four steps in, to free apart from our conventional perception, and allowing what looks through us.
Then I understood that the size of the forms in his works was not random, but a matter of proximity to the Eye of the Spirit. Picasso painted from that divine gaze, even though he probably couldn't name it.
The large eyes, always present in his works, were a symbol of it: the inner eye, the all-encompassing vision. He knew that the gaze is one of the gateways to an understanding of totality, of the unity of all things, and from those states he sensed the vibration behind the objects.
Picasso didn't just paint forms. He painted life as it is.
So why can't we all see the world like Picasso?
The Self, the Ego.
That Self which we identify with —yours, mine, everyone's— is attached to a system of beliefs, narratives, and mental filters that shape perception.
Your conceptions make you "pre-see" reality in a certain "way" or better said: "a certain form".
Only when the individual temporarily frees themselves from the Conscious Self by dissolving it, and allows a much deeper, more neutral inner observer to flow through them, will the one who looks through them take the helm, and then, from that subtle, vaster, more sensitive, and wiser eye, will make them feel and understand "what dwells behind the forms".
The mind must be silenced so that the Spirit may breathe through our Being. That which observes through us is not us; it is much more than the sum of its parts.
Picasso left us clues in his works. Through Cubism, he sowed seeds to awaken our own view of things.
He whispered to us in colors and fragmented forms:
"What you see is not the only thing that exists;
learn to look beyond it.
Leave the rigidity of form and enter what lies beyond fragmentation"
His art is an invitation, as well as a training, to see reality from multiple dimensions.
Just as it happens in yoga, in states of Flow in sports, and in so many creative moments, you don't need to drown yourself in psychedelics or medicinal plants...
The Eye of God already dwells within you.
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