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Alfred Bast art monastery art research seminar in Hohenwart Forum 11.-13. February 2011
With heart ♥ and hand ☚
✍ Hand
Start: hand-printing. Hands-pressure. A warm handshake.
This first, even visual contact, in this seminar, with ink and paper is somewhat reminiscent of kindergarten. And why not. Hand and foot prints are made from babies and children in salt dough, plaster, to illustrate their growth. But this seems so airy and light and should be, yet there is also deeper levels. It reminds namely at the nursery of mankind. For the first-hand traces of people are discovering the cave paintings: 22000 years was the forth, it is said. You signed it, as it and said, "I looked was here" (Margaret Bruns, the wisdom of the eye, p. 37).
in each hand print the unique identity of the people is mentioned. His distinctive signature of the genetic code. It is unbelievable that with all the billions who are no two identical fingerprints. Not even identical twins. Sun signs of human uniqueness, not only his hand through his signature, but by drawing the lines in his own hand written mystery.
that this is not a kindergarten game now showing in criminology, which has about 1930 unique fingerprint for Identification uses, or that electronic access locks in the high tec area that can be opened only with a digital fingerprint.
There are, individual lanes in each human hand. They have been writing in the hand before they can write.
when we press our hands on the sheet and print it, we have made the uniqueness of one's existence visible. This is hidden in this child's play. At the same time in this unique identity and the duality is within reach us by the two hands. By left and right. In some Cultures and was the pair of hand already for the first symbol of good and bad. Right = left = good and bad. Law the law, the right thing and rights, left the false and deceitful and dirty. The left-handed in earlier times had fatal consequences.
After all, is expressed by the fact that man is a being of light and darkness itself.
It is this duality, two possibilities to act. One is being right, with part of attempts to dominate over the other, the other is the creative use of it, in which both the human qualities that manifest themselves in the two brain halves, each create a whole to see how the most strikingly inspired by a piano player and heard.
Both hands together at the same time create a third that does not hand alone
or could afford one after another. The hands are a community . And every hand, differentiated with their fingers every 5 to 10 times in this community. Two times five. In each hand the number five, the number of the pentagram and the golden section can be found. 27 bones are found in the hand, about half of all the bones of the body.
These have proportions of the Golden Section. In can we like to talk in more detail.
hands, as "grasping tools to the human limb," they are called in robotic machine language are capable of a middle form that expresses what the center of the body. The heart.
♥ The heart
not as gripping tool of the extremities, but more complex interpreted Kant's hand: namely, "When the brain turned inside out" . This is also consistent with the areas taking up the hands in the brain. There is a picture of a man whose limbs were made proportional to the way they are effective in the brain. Sun comes out a homunculus, with huge hands and lips. It was fortunate that we look out not so. But perhaps because of the many grotesque Comikmonsterchen are so successful because they make something visible of these inner proportional ratios?
hands together to create a third thing , a synthesis, a center in which the two extremes to make enemies and not fight, but in which they are complementary. They stick together, creating a vessel to be the architecture that make a room and keep the heart. Keep your heart in your hands. Since there are healing hands, and blessing-giving hands, and the mother's hands, and the green hands ....
pulsates in the heart of all these names.
The heart was interpreted differently at different times. Similar to our hands, Frank Wilson aptly called "a genius of evolution" , (Frank.R.Wilson, The Hand - genius of evolution, Klett Cotta, 2000), to mere gripping tools reduced, according to mechanically what the "BOSS brain requires, "said the heart has been by his poetic gods size also reduces the pumping machine. We are demystified and rightly admire the magnificent achievements of heart surgery, for sharing this vital "pump" capable ist.Dennoch remains the heart of something that does not rise to the rational point of view.
one time was it is considered home of the gods in man, as in ancient Egypt, who accompany him through his life journey and his versorgten.Es with life force was also seen as an organ of perception, are to some extent as the brains of their own impulses and controls. In the Little Prince by Saint Exupery, the famous sentence to read: "One sees clearly only with the heart, the essential is invisible to eyes" . We also feel like it is when someone is acting courageously. He acts quickly, spontaneously and correctly. He weighs not rational from the pros and cons, but acts. The impulse comes from the heart, from the mid-life, the life of the whole. The heart lies and is fortunately not restrict to a mechanistic concepts. Cheerful it pulsates in countless variations kitsch, crystalline or neon puff pastry, or gold, as brilliant as collies or praline and thus stimulates the circulation of sweet communication.
But this body is also of that which occupies an alarming public health problem than first place. And so as the "organ the middle" also like the left and right hand on a split, a rhythm out of balance, between opening up a chasm. That between kitsch and infarction. How can I treat it? This chasm can be bridged but ironic, but where possible from the disunity that unites two-flung a complementary polarity, the abyss transforms into a gold background, from the heat, certainty and stability to pulse all parts of the human spirit and soul and by blood. This death-serious work to form the center can only succeed with joy, love and humor - honest!
This center is really something rare. You must be so difficult as a good meal, a good picture, a good conversation. It is not just flat there, but wants to conquer, dreamed, longed to be. Nevertheless, it is ultimately not feasible. It matures and may or may not succeed. But without one's own efforts It will certainly be nothing, because the hands are in her lap, or are just fists, and the heart remains a replaceable pump machine. But it is possible to raise the spirits in hand and heart, for the conditions under almost all circumstances, it is advantageous for man / woman to make it clear that holds this "genius of evolution" is also brilliant skills who want to be but practiced. Skills will be acquired, and talents to be developed.
The center is usually either a flat and "fair" or it's just the area between two fronts. We seek and are in Art Monastery, the "golden mean", where a person is "in its midst" where his heart that shines like the sun and all the "extremities" supplies.
In what way we treat the heart and can express themselves as we shall see in the next few days.
☛ Artistic monastery and the nature of the seminars
This is the fourth seminar in Hohenwart forum. At this repetition is clear that harmonize with the place and the art monastery well.
What is the Monastery of art?
It is primarily an idea that is temporary, concrete is now in the seminar. It is not a place with a monastery is made in the art. Perhaps this will become. But since the founding of 1995/96 it is a working term, in which two qualities are related, complementary, in my estimation, and despite their great diversity in the core together.
Kun t I understand it as an open field, succeed in the experiment through play and creative insights or new ways and old ones revived.
monastery stands for contemplation, concentration, inner focus, self awareness, spirituality and prayer.
In all the arts monastery seminars perception and vision in the center of attention. Seeing and perceiving, which is also facing internal and external. So as to form that writing and drawing hearts and hands and mind is a stable dynamic triangle. We can together create a favorable and conducive atmosphere and admit the fact and express ideas and impulses that one track to open that source that bubbles appear in everyone, as its unique genetic code that appears in the labyrinthine lines of the finger.
But the seminars are not under the heading: "Self determination" to classify, rather self-invention, because it's going to potentially something that is as raw as it were is the edit. Not something to which one has lost and wants to see again, like a house key. To stay in the picture: we must learn to make this key and have it all ways in the hands of the compass in the heart and the intelligence in the planning Head.
This is a concentrated, contemplative process will be one - or more ironic - artistic effort.
has also why the silence its place. But silence is not squeezed out meant "cough and breathing are allowed".
Each participant, each participant begins where he or she is. That is not possible otherwise. Only from there can develop something. It is never about better or worse than another to be. The scale is as individual as a fingerprint, and he's up in his own hand and heart.
That standstill and advancement has much to do with the interpretation and perception of how we evaluate, because the review has a direct effect on our perception back formative.
If the perception of art, these operations are directed. Maybe like a white water paddler his canoe, in the wild power of the views of interior and exterior, to obstacles and vortex can finally draw in calm waters to the target.
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