Stupa Print - Limited Edition of 3

The rain had soaked the emulsion film to such an extent that it seeped through it, peeling layers and forming strange patterns, like children scribbling or painting abstract expressionisms, or microscopic images of tissues, or some patterns inspired by nature like veins of leaves or tectonic faults. According to Buddhist ideas, reality is multi-layered and our undeveloped minds and senses perceive only its superficial layers. However, in the arts, a genius learns from nature, from himself. The talent is constrained to simulate the existing cultural paradigms. We all grow up on fixed ideals and wrong stereotypes about everything, and rarely, in the words of Schoenberg, do we find the courage to present reality as a multitude of view points, excluding only the observer and the mere act of observing. Perhaps photos reveal to us that other layer of reality hidden beneath the veil of Maya, but which is still in close contact and constant interaction with the visible world. The avant-garde, since the beginning of the last century sought to expand our perception and vision of the world as an organic whole, to break the world beset by the fabric of ordinary language, to poke holes in it through which one can exude the pure “first reality”. In some pictures from Nepal we see such glaring failures, black holes. Their very existence can be perceived as an act of aggression, an attack on the familiar reality. However, we feel that it is not. In all items, there is a small, almost imperceptible harmony. Void and emptiness is transformed into the visible reality of the objective world only for it to later dissolve into the darkness. Water is the main creative element, a primordial matter, from which all forms are born and to which they return, either due to a disaster or gradual regression. So, we are obliged to start afresh every time from the beginning, forgetting the past and the future, feeling “eternity in the moment”.