Intersecting Senses 2005

"The truth is something that every man needs to live,
yet it is something that he cannot receive from anyone.
Every man must give birth to it within himself…" F. Kafka

Art is a quest for truth, for mystery, for discovery; it is an attempt to pass beyond the borders of banality and stereotype into a world without boundary or convention. The task is first and foremost an individual one, and thus images (sensory organs) are turned into space in such a way that one looks within himself, or through himself.

Traditionally, a work of art is separated from ordinary space - by a frame in painting, a podium in sculpture. This signals an other, imaginary world that is beyond ordinary reality. An exhibition space such as a room or a wall, on the other hand, symbolizes the banality of life, and delineates the real. The image, that is, the un-real or the artistic, interrupts the flat structure of this space, yet at the same time exists in an organic relationship with it.

Similarly every discovery, at first original and unexpected, soon takes its place in ordinary reality by virtue of its very usefulness and repetition.

Man cannot signify the spiritual, yet can feel it intuitively, though image, word or sound. Sensory organs (the eyes, the ears, the mouth) which have a material presence (due to which the image becomes realistic), are a small step toward the transition from the physical world to the spiritual, the bond between body and soul.

There is a goal, but no prescribed way to it.

This composition utilizes the simple sound of a lighthouse, which serves as a metaphorical dialogue (the quest for truth). In the same way that a ship seeks to find a point of reference in darkness and fog, the soul seeks truth, meaning, God, etc. The sound echoes in repetition, fades and disappears, in analogy to the light of truth, which weakens and grows fainter the further it travels from its source.

At the junction of light and shadow appears the physical image, and at the junction of light and dark appears the physical world.