new pieces, new lines: ‘currents’

• SPONTANEOUS DRAWING AS PHOTOREALISM

A line of a drawing has always had the freedom to be the first expressive element. It shows the relationship between time and space, figure and the background, the relationship between definite and infinite. As usually in arts, it is about the process. The process of following the flow; the flow of mind; therefore, a consciousness and the sensitivity of under subconsciousness. To see an image, a body of water. Before doing so, I observe the currents at the water’s surface. Observation of its lines, appearing and disappearing, how it creates images, shapes infinite lines and leaves traces of water’s movement.  The fascinating fact is that we can observe these ‘frozen movements’ also in wood, our bones and other bodies, which are created by the water.

After a year of thinking and gathering images in my head, …they are finally here, on the paper! However, this are just first sketches, first transformations, first observations…many ideas and plans are yet to come!

1. WATER AS  MATTER

Water is the primary and most essential element for all living processes. Water is the primary, endless source of information. It is an intelligence that carries many records. Water is a spectrum of physical, psychological and spiritual states. It transmits, records and saves information within all four elements. Matter such as water, is definitely a persona, a character of many faces.

Water plays endless performances every day. Its movement through space and time is almost imperceptible to man. Reflection, ripple, splash or massive flow of quantity. Sound, texture, shape, speed, depth and, after all, silence.

Light also travels through the water. It gives her colours, hues, tones that characterize our environment, habits, well-being and rituals.

2. WATER AS AN ORGANISM

All organisms are developed and, therefore, are formed by the water. ‘The human embryo enveloped in the maternal organism and entirely floating in water, gradually creates the distinct form of its organs out of a liquid.’ (T.Schwenk, Sensitive Chaos) As already mentioned, we can notice the same process happening in all bodies of this planet. Water is matter which creates bodies, organs, bones, structures, in which we can clearly see its traces. An organism made of water also depends on water’s temperature, quantity and clarity.  It is about the water’s systems; the currents which determine the climate of its body.

Currents,…: in a constant move.

In a constant flow, search for life, tranformation and change.

We are made of water, and water spins, flows, floats, sparkels, dripps, …it feels like it never stops.

Water leaves it’s traces everywhere; in our bones, woods, organs, soil, stone,…therefore, currents are water’s traces , it’s print, a prove that it shaped it, it created a particular material.

3. RHYTM OR MOVEMENT OF THE FLOW

When the current is not in balance with another current, the body cannot function in its rhythm. Water always finds its way through, therefore, when not in balance it searches for another movement, to find its flow. To follow the rhythm of lines, its circulations and tides gives one the sense to understand water as an intelligence which is a body of its own. ‘Falling as a drop, water oscillates about the shape of a sphere; or as a dew fallen on a clear and starry night it transforms an unconscious meadow into a starry heaven of sparkling drops.’ (T.Schwenk, Sensetive Chaos)

It fascinates me, how we don’t notice it, because its textures are everywhere ; in the woods, vains, clouds, plants, stones,…water is much stronger than we think. It has its own ineteligence…