Building of a house in heaven Print

A meditation on the sermon on the mount (Mathew 5-6) : "You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house". When in Mathew 6 we are advised to build our houses on solid rock, we understand in fact that it is on the organic dynamic of enlightenment of the Self, and bringing forth of the Self in truthful speech, that the house has to be built. The painting begun in 2014, with a dripping style medium (cf. J. Pollock) to embody organic forms. I struggled a long time with the painting, trying to bring structure into the organic forms, but all my attempts remained unsuccessful. It was my artistical retreat in Pont-Aven in 2019 that finally brought me the key, and the solution. By bringing light in the center of the canvas, the organic dripping movement now functioned as a form of materiality, thus the organic had become crystallized, materialized. But the light, emanating from the two archetypal figures at the center, seems simultaneously to bring back to live this fallen asleep organic space. Thus the light emanates from the two archetypal structures in the inside of the framework (i.e. human zip of lights, i.e. reduced Barnett Newman zip), reproducing the larger vertical light zip structuring of the painting on the right; a work with the verticality of light evoking the Genesis 1 motive of "bringing to life, bringing to light, bringing to structure...through truthful speech". It is thus through this "speech and light" that the materialized organic comes to life again; The light of speech resurrecting the fallen asleep dynamics of truthfulness; and the burning of dead wood, coming, once again, to illuminate the world, by making it habitable.