ONE LINES SERIE 2 - GOLDEN SECTION N°5 Painting

ONE LINE  Gold & resin on 640 gms high quality paper. "When I draw, I reduce myself, the motif and technique to the basest form of drawing to achieve an all-encompassing state of being „Human-Universe-Executer“. I draw the void around the line. I am focusing on the negative space around the line which ultimately represents the line in its truest form. My mind is clear, I feel my consciousness, my thoughts, my body and the world in and around me. I become the mere moment. There is only this one moment. Every time the same moment. Everywhere the same space. Everything else continues to noisily stream while I remain content in the fluidity of the present. Thoughts are never louder nor feelings more profound than in this contiguous state. My focus transcens into bare presence. Personality becomes formless and nameless. With each breath such emptiness is filled more and more. With every line I become closer to my real origin…" One of the most fundamental elements of art is the line as it is where all images must originate. The line in this series is amplified through the act of maximal reduction. It becomes the glorification of all forms and simultaneously the simplest of artistic acts. It thus represents the essential act and force of creation itself.  The line, as the basis of art, may be seen as infinitely complex though it may be taken for granted in most works. In other words, the line is the genetic code of artistic rendering. ONE LINE is conceptually related to EACH LINE ONE BREATH, where the drawings are formed through the act of drawing each line during the length of a single exhale. As the work evolves, the artist achieves a form of spiritual transcendence wherein repetitive movements become all-encompassing. The artist is able to find a meditative space by translating his essential life-breath into a physical manifestation – each line in the work. In relation to EACH LINE ONE BREATH, then, this series took the purification a step further. As the artist reduced the creational act, its form, and his very mindset to the most basic level. The magnification of such a rudimentary concept formed a mantra of sorts: “One Line - one mind - one moment - one act.” Through striving to use ever-simpler forms, the artist strives to reach the inner selves of his audience. It is from this meditative practice that the artist penetrates our most complex thoughts.  Simplicity leads to emptiness, the true space where the human mind resides. In the Japanese culture of Zen it called Ensō. It represents a moment where the mind is free such that neither the mind nor body are not restricted in their creative processes. Ensō is the embodiment of the state occupied by the mind at the precise moment of creation. Similarly, Shi Tao (Shih T'ao / Tao Chi) formulated this moment as a “principle of one holistic brushstroke as a medium for the articulation of a non-dualistic cosmos. The draw-write-act as a meditation in which the human-universe-executer and the observer will achieve a kind of inner-worldly transcendence.”