Affronting the theme of Immaterialism
I like the ambiguity in the image of the runner in Towards the
light;is he running away from or towards something; may I suggest the
something is life.
The concept behind this artwork is, what is to be alive;how we fill
the gap between birth and death,the realisation of the emptiness of
inherent existence, dependent arising, causing the appearance of form,
the inevitable decay, the impermanebc of all.So what exactly do we
name?
Can we touch ourself, body conciousness ?.
A combination of both perhaps.
So if self is evasive and consiousness continuum wrapped in black and
white karma the only contemplatable ever changing stream of self has
little to gain claiming ownership of material objects, each form
imagined by our ever changing self.
So if art is about what it is to be human, the sense of longing and
loss, concepts of freedom spirituality immaterialism.
Art is unimportant next to life, creativity has as much to do with
experience, observation, and imagination, and if any one of these key
elemnets are missing, does it work?
Towards the Light, uses abstract and figurative elements to represent
mans never ending attempt to make sense of life........striving,the
runner, for a clear state of unburdened conciousness, catching a
glimpse of the human spirit struggling against the malaise of our soul
in our times.
The guiding principle is feeling. My paintings are begun through a
process of intuitive unpremeditated drawings or collage, and are
inspired by a particular event, places , , where figuration and
abstraction meet that is neither straightforwardly illustrational nor
expressionistic,
. Buddhism and the search for truth in a changing world has been one
of my constant themes. The painting Towards the LIght is 36 inches by
36, oil on canvas
Curator: Pietro Franesi
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