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The Spiritual and the Physical

27/5/2018

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Today's post is a continuation of my exploration of angles.
This is a small "excerpt" out of a series made on a single graphite on paper work consisting of six such tiles (each approximately 8cm x 8cm). I ended up with triangles of varying sizes: I had started with straight lines at an angle of 30 degrees from the edge.
Symbolically speaking, triangles are representations of the natural elements, or in Christianity and other religions, of the concept of Trinity. I prefer, and rather like the idea of the upward pointing triangle referring to the Spiritual and the downward pointing one to that of the Physical realms.
Still searching for something that would go with the Unity of the Spiritual and the Physical.
Much light!


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The Fourth Dimension

20/5/2018

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20180501: Charcoal and pastels on veneer
Risking an almost repeat post from "The Ode to the Unknown", I post today a work I did on a wood veneer panel of 30 x 30 cm. I am still exploring angles (this time 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees) and colour fields in muted colour. I have used charcoal and pastel pigments.
I am reminded again of the text by Gaston de Pawlowski in his book "Reise ins Land der vierten Dimension" and his analogy of the two dimensional shadows of three dimensional shapes, and his allusion to three dimensional bodies being the "shadows" of an unknown entity of four dimensions: "all three-dimensional objects that we so simply observe, are projections of a Fourth Dimension unknown to us" (translation by Maximilian Gilleßen from the French).
​Much light!

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Organic vs. Geometric Structures

13/5/2018

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With the help of the above works, which are actually "sketches / studies" in using angles and shapes found in nature as a basis for my colour fields, I was able to get some feedback and some valuable insights into a philosophical text originating in the Tamil Language in the 15th century A.D. Here is an English translation:

"With form and formless, what is not and what is,
Flower and fragrance, gem and radiance,
Body and soul, Salvation and rules of righteousness,
O Lord Guha, Who comes (as all these and) as Guru! Bestow Thy Grace."

​The author, Saint Arunagirinathar, depicts "GOD" as one with Form and Formless; as that which is and that which is not...

As an abstract artist struggling with definitions, this comes to me as a timely reminder that the process of creation of artwork encompasses all: the form, the  formless, that which is; and that which is not... all is allowed.

​Much light!
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Staying with spices

6/5/2018

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This week I will continue to stay with the sketches I made in Mamallapuram, India. Depicted here is a spice I could not identify. Any guesses?
​Much light!
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    Aruna Samivelu

    I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
    I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still  a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
    My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
    This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
    ​In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
    My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create. 

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