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Drawings and pastels, the meditative meaning of colour
Drawings (pastels)
One day I began drawing differently from before. I realised that I was holding the pastel differently, and that I also wanted something different. Above all, I felt joy and, at the same time, much greater patience. I wanted more from it than before. And what feels most important to me is that I feel freer.
"Drawings": a simple title behind which lies the joy of discovery. I had been working on abstract paintings and had enclosed myself within the feeling of colour. The vertical dominated in many forms, colours and lines interpenetrated to form a whole, and everything on the surface took place in a purely abstract space. I removed narrative and devoted all my attention to the meditative meaning of colours and lines. I had fulfilled what I wanted to express, and then I picked up pastels and began to draw.
Renaissance, a return to organic form: I am rediscovering what was once discovered, and I believe that, because of what we live through today, what was discovered long ago is new and different again. Everything hidden beneath the countless forms of postmodernism, beneath all forms of representation, is a freedom identical with being lost, with our inescapable pilgrimage with God and without God. We live in a time that, more than in the past, makes us feel that we should enjoy everything and waste nothing. It increases the selfishness of individualism within us. Beneath helpfulness and goodness lies only the prospect of money and personal gain. What else is there to seek when we know so much that we cease to believe? The path of science relentlessly removes myths. Happiness, in all its fullness, is a fleeting illusion that ends in hardship, suffering and death. A return to the organic world means new joy, a path towards understanding our lot and towards oneness. Drawing both is and is not the past.
One day I began drawing differently from before. I realised that I was holding the pastel differently, and that I also wanted something different. Above all, I felt joy and, at the same time, much greater patience. I wanted more from it than before. And what feels most important to me is that I feel freer.
"Drawings": a simple title behind which lies the joy of discovery. I had been working on abstract paintings and had enclosed myself within the feeling of colour. The vertical dominated in many forms, colours and lines interpenetrated to form a whole, and everything on the surface took place in a purely abstract space. I removed narrative and devoted all my attention to the meditative meaning of colours and lines. I had fulfilled what I wanted to express, and then I picked up pastels and began to draw.
Renaissance, a return to organic form: I am rediscovering what was once discovered, and I believe that, because of what we live through today, what was discovered long ago is new and different again. Everything hidden beneath the countless forms of postmodernism, beneath all forms of representation, is a freedom identical with being lost, with our inescapable pilgrimage with God and without God. We live in a time that, more than in the past, makes us feel that we should enjoy everything and waste nothing. It increases the selfishness of individualism within us. Beneath helpfulness and goodness lies only the prospect of money and personal gain. What else is there to seek when we know so much that we cease to believe? The path of science relentlessly removes myths. Happiness, in all its fullness, is a fleeting illusion that ends in hardship, suffering and death. A return to the organic world means new joy, a path towards understanding our lot and towards oneness. Drawing both is and is not the past.
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