Making of: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cL_f5QR29E

EACH LINE ONE BREATH 

A limited edition of 50 freehand drawings per materials, focusing on an artistic and graphic interpretation of evolution through the use of simple drawn lines.
The line is the initiation of any drawing and its fundamental prerequisite. Coincides with the most basic and transcendental state of life, the perception of breathing as inspiration itself.
Inspiration comes from the Latin word „inspirationem“ which means "inhaling, breathing-in or inflame, blow into“.  Further from „spirare" - spirit, which means „to breathe“.
Starting with a straight line, I draw each following sequence by copying the character of the previous. I concentrate on br

EACH LINE ONE BREATH - PAPER SERIES 2013 - ONGOING

“Everything needs to be burned down. Everything needs to be eliminated until nothing remains, to the state before anything is born. Norms, forms, motifs are eliminated until only the raw, empty archetype remains.

Ode to Darkness

Destroying the narcissistic mirror is a symbolic ritual act. It is an iconic representation of the need to break through the very thin, square, golden and glorified perception of our narcissistic reality. ...

Creation is Destruction

To simplify the forms of plants to their  outlines i suggest to disperse the complex thoughts of the observer, to make him aware of the iconology of nature and their  immanence of beauty and glory. 

NATURE MATRICES

Drawn by Blood goes a step further in both the limits of the performative act and of the ritualistic form of creation. 
 
The process of creation starts with a syringe. The artist gives his blood, which is later transformed into a useable medium by adding anticoagulant. The blood becomes the ink, and Franzen begins his act of performing one line with each breath. 

Drawn by Blood - Each Line one Breath


"... When I draw, I draw the void. Not the line. I focus on the nothingness around the line.
It is a sort of meditation. My mind is clear. My focus is on the mere moment. 
There is only this one moment. Every time the same moment.
Everything else is still. Never thoughts are louder and feelings profounder than in this moment.
My mind transcends into bare presence. Personality becomes formless and nameless. 
With each breath the emptiness is filled more and more. 
With every line I get closer to my real origin…"

"Creation for creation-itself" 
The subject is not what I create, but more that I create.

Striving to use ever-simpler forms to reach peoples inner selves and complex thoughts. Simplicity leads to emptiness, the spac

ONE LINES

Making of: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cL_f5QR29E

EACH LINE ONE BREATH 

A limited edition of 50 freehand drawings per materials, focusing on an artistic and graphic interpretation of evolution through the use of simple drawn lines.

The line is the initiation of any drawing and its fundamental prerequisite. Coincides with the most basic and transcendental state of life, the perception of breathing as inspiration itself.

Inspiration comes from the Latin word „inspirationem“ which means "inhaling, breathing-in or inflame, blow into“.  Further from „spirare" - spirit, which means „to breathe“.

Starting with a straight line, I draw each following sequence by copying the character of the previous. I concentrate

EACH LINE ONE BREATH - ALUMINIUM SERIES

Making of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__WhFKNBL8

EACH LINE ONE BREATH is a limited edition of 50 free-hand drawings.
Starting with a single straight line, each subsequent line seeks to imitate its predecessor. The pattern that evolves is unique to each piece just as each breath, and therefore each line, will vary slightly. Depending on the artist’s constitution, each work obtains an individual motion, which distinguishes it from the others. Concentration and the repetitive act of inhaling and exhaling between each line allows the whole to evolve naturally into logarithmic-like patterns and layers. 


EACH LINE ONE BREATH / BLACK EDITION IN COPPER AND BRASS

Work of the new serie "each line one breath" on a full copper-plate. 

Making of: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5OJ7XxoKwg&feature=youtu.be

Artist statement:
The central theme is the sunken origin of a cosmic-source and their key-intelligence patterns. It always leads him to the heart of the entropy from energy and matter. What is the unborn state and principle of a self-sustaining and universe? The archetypes of the creation itself. 

I look for the origin. The archetypes of the creation itself, to reach the initial moment of creating. 
What is the pattern and principle of a self-sustaining and universe, and the roll of humans in it? 
What is mans artificiality? His nature and divinity?

Conceptual description:
EACH LINE O

EACH LINE ON BREATH COPPER & BRASS EDITION

The individual pieces of this edition are directly drawn in copper and brass. 
The lines are engraved with a needle in varnish on the plate. The plates are subsequently placed in acid bath, which etches the drawing into the material. 

This technique is an ancient craft to produce discharge printings. 
From every brass & copper plate a limited edition with ​​3 handmade printings and 1 Artist Print is made.

“Each Line One Breath” is a limited edition of 50 free-hand drawings per material. The artist deals with the conceptual interpretation of the genesis and evolution through the most fundamental act in life, breathing, and the initial act of each artistic creation, the basic drawn line.


DISCHARGE PRINTS LIMITED EDITION


The exhibition presents an installation. 

Plants are conserved in polyester resin and immortalized in porcelain.
Almost all objects are white. They are similar to bones and corals.
It seems like a natural history exhibition.

A pictorial depiction of the human scientific mind in search of his sunken origin.
An allegory about the behavior of humans, to gain control over nature and evanesence, through conservating, archiving and put it into a sterile environment.


John Franzen