(XL Giclée on Dibond) WHO AM I - Limited Edition of 3 Print

art piece to buy WHO AM I (a few words from the artist) > LEIBNIZ with his "Why there is something rather than nothing?" tried also to nail in words the human haunting question about the sense, or the nonsense, of (our) existence. > But, everybody agrees that Shakespeare with his "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" did a much, much better job. > The way the words are placed in his stance makes everything so clear, so beautifully BALANCED. > When you read them you get the same feeling of completeness as in front of EULER's EQUATION in mathematics. > The beauty of the stance and, most of all, its spiritual genius reside also in the fact that it keeps everything suspended inside the question, rather than letting the "poor" intellect begin its reflex urge to quickly look for explicit answers. > When I translated "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" into a machine language (BINARY-CODE - see 2nd image), and I have arranged the resulted text in a BOOK-like format (for humans to “read” and pay attention !), I intended to reveal unexplored yet facets of the Shakespearean "diamond". > I think that the translation brings visually and emotionally in the foreground very recent human worries and pressing questions brought on humanity’s plate by: ... > ... artificial intelligence, machine-learning, deep-mind, virtual-reality, ... quantum physics, string theory, ... > Ancient philosophical dilemmas such as the "irreality" of reality, or the superposition of nothingness, unity, and diversity in the Universe, or the existence or non-existence of an all-pervading Consciousness, … , I see them all covered by these senseless for our human eyes rows of "1"s and "0"s. > As beautiful synchronicity, the binary code's two only characters, “1” and “0”, are by themselves powerful symbols for the “TO BE” and respectively ”NOT TO BE” perplexity. > This lucky coincidence, which brings an additional FRACTAL depth to my visual metaphor, made me very, very happy !!! ======================================================================================= THE TRIPTYCH > Inspired by Shakespeare's "Hamlet", this piece is the FIRST part of a still only planned vertical TRIPTYCH. > In the planned vertical triptych the emphasis will fall on the vertical progress of Shakespeare's LINE OF THINKING which starts in the world of well-defined choices ("TO BE OR NOT TO BE"), only to quickly transcend into the detached world of awareness-without-commitment (That is "THE QUESTION"), the final destination being what we would probably call nowadays MEDITATION (The rest is "SILENCE"). > The three pieces of the Triptych installation will be: "SILENCE" (top) "THE QUESTION" (middle) "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" (bottom) ======================================================================================= WHY BUY THIS ARTWORK > Because it has the power to spark meaningful debates about our not very distant FUTURE. ======================================================================================= This 3-LIMITED EDITION > The ORIGINAL, signed artwork is printed on exquisite 285 gsm HAHNEMÜHLE PEARL resin-coated Giclée Fine Art paper, in an EXTRA LARGE 40'' x 40'' (1016 mm x 1016 mm) format. > The artwork is shipped to the buyer in a special, carefully designed ART PROTECTIVE package. > The ARTWORK is numbered and signed on the back. > Each print of this 3-LIMITED EDITION is accompanied by a "CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY" containing all the important information about the ARTWORK. ======================================================================================= Image & Texts Copyright © 2019+ Bogdan ANDA (R) All Rights Reserved. Copyright Reference Numbers: 7195220420S009 / 7195220420S008