Getting to Grips With The Sublime

I've gone back to Youtube to try and get some ideas as I am stuck. 

I typed Sublime in and found two new useful videos. 

Some key notes from this video:

Insignificant
Oppressive
Perspective
Life's problems are minor
Egoism becomes less/non existent
You choose to feel that way (choose to feel the emotion of the sublime)
Religion.
We want to meet with the sublime in a frequent way so we can be made to feel small

My work should make people feel small, in a good way.

Key notes from this video: 

Connected/ Disconnected

Representation

Ungraspable

OVERWHELMING

Jaw drop- relief

More terror than elation

Transcendent

Contest Light and Dark

Fragility of man

Light- hope and faith

Desire to destroy beauty

Colour could be the subject

Panting large- you are in it. painting slows thins down.

Cosmos

We are small- Forces of nature

Enjoyment/ terror

Sensation of falling

Make people feel with their eyes

Breaking free of the modern world (no/ little digital techniques)

Objective reality

Reveals the limitation to put our minds around it. 

See beyond what is before our eyes. 

  

Notes:

The second video was made by Steven DaLuz and it also features some of his paintings. I found these representations to be helpful in understanding the sublime and want to look into his work further. 

This is a link to his Non-Figurative Work, click here. 

I like how this work suggests the subject or maybe the forms within the paintings are second to the contrasting colours and light. They draw you in and the strong contrast is overwhelming. Maybe this is the sort of thing I should be focusing on.