‘Who am I? 1’ Print

I’m Hessel Pijnaker, Amsterdam born artist, but mostly active internationally and living in Berlin right now. My artist practice is very close of that of Zen if you know it. I think and do at the same time instead of think first and then do. Thus, I am able to make unthinkable things; I am acknowledging the non-serious part or non-witnessable part of myself through this spontaneous practice. It is all very much about letting the innerworld flow out into the outer world, wich is then seeable. An ancient shamanistic practice almost. Opening the doors of perception. And then you meet other artists and people with this perception, this understanding, and it is like ‘when two thieves meet they instantly recognize eachother’, wich is always amazing. and so it is with my art if you look at it; you recognize the unconscious, the global consciousness, the cosmic consciousness if you want, and you are brought into contact with something beyond words, beyond logic and reasoning: existentialism, negative and positive energy and our ghosts, our gods and devils, whom live inside of us, who we are. When you die you go inwards aswel, you implode, until you explode again. My art is a shadow that is casted of the implode. Existence is the shadow of course of the implode, or better it is the light side of the mountain, because we can see it and the implode is the shadow, the negative energy.