I’m reading about
the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s relationship with artist Eduardo Chilida. I found
there point of view very interesting and of my personal perception and thought.
I enjoy, look forward to, have many, I am
always reaching for more experiences. From
those experiences I do build perception but with that also comes the art. My art
is the heart of who I am. In this process I can say the journey reveals
discovery leading to development of my works. Unlike Eduardo Chillida, I do not
feel that experience is one foot in the past. I like to think that all of me even
in reflection is in the present or the now.
This is the excerpt
I am referring to:
Eduardo Chillida
engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher Martin
Heidegger. When the two men met, they discovered that from different
angles, they were "working" with space in the same way. Heidegger
wrote: "We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are
places and do not merely belong to a place," and that sculpture is thereby
"...the embodiment of places." Against a traditional view of space as
an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as
already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a
material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the
world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and
homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.
Chillida has been
quoted as saying: "My whole Work is a journey of discovery in Space. Space
is the liveliest of all, the one that surrounds us. ...I do not believe so much
in experience. I think it is conservative. I believe in perception, which is
something else. It is riskier and more progressive. There is something that
still wants to progress and grow. Also, this is what I think makes you
perceive, and perceiving directly acts upon the present, but with one foot
firmly planted in the future. Experience, on the other hand, does the contrary:
you are in the present, but with one foot in the past. In other words, I prefer
the position of perception. All of my work is the progeny of the question. I am
a specialist in asking questions, some without answers."
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