The seventh side of the brick is its enclosures that create its uniqueness. With the placement, the eighth aspect is realised, the land art placement complete. Here, with TRUFLE (4A1A) layer upon layer is creating the image of a landscape with a dark and stormy sky . The shades of yellow that you find in the brick have about the same colour range as the lichen on the stele its placed upon.
Chiaroscuro (Italian: ‘light-dark’), chiaroscuro painting, also known in French as clair-obscur, refers to a design medium developed in the late Renaissance and Baroque periods in graphic art and painting that is characterised by strong contrasts of light and dark and serves to enhance both the spatial and the expressive. Important representatives include Caravaggio and Rembrandt van Rijn and their successors. In contrast to Leonardo’s soft sfumato, the painters of the 16th and 17th centuries were primarily concerned with dramatic expression, which can be achieved in oil painting by placing subjects in the light against a dark background.
However, I do not believe that the artists who introduced this technique were only interested in drama, but also in cosmic observation. Black dominates the cosmos, light is rare. The same applies to the light of consciousness. While light itself is best represented by shades of white, the colour of consciousness is in the realm of amber: It shines ‘from within’, corresponding to Leonardo’s concept of lumen. The main colours of this visual language are shades of black, amber and white.
When talking about gold, people have different associations. In German, ‘Gold, Göld (A Göld, the Viennese likes to say, taking the real space between the two words), Geld’ are closely related, but in other languages too, Midas has managed to make us think primarily of material wealth when it comes to AU / Aurum / Gold. I find two things really interesting about this molecule: firstly, the energy of the Big Bang was not enough to create this heavy element; a supernova, a dying star, was and is needed. In my complete colour theory (to be published soon), or rather not a theory but a ‘description of the nature of colours in relation to humans* (what do I know about the perception of colours in fireflies), it is pointed out that all previous colour theories, especially those of Newton, Goethe or Itten, fail completely when it comes to metallic colours. (As do screens and other light based media) So in future, I hope, you will see the colour gold in a slightly different light when you see a gold frame in the Louvre or another classical museum, or even stand in front of an icon that consciously uses this unique colour to represent the highest values. Recently, I saw Ugo Rondinone’s ‘The Alphabet of my Mothers and Fathers’ at Esther Schipper in Berlin. It is a cycle of works that relies heavily on craftsmanship and the value of gold, and simply invokes and works with it. You should take a look at it if you get the chance: https://www.estherschipper.com/exhibitions/1308-the-alphabet-of-my-mothers-and-fathers-ugo-rondinone/
But I want to have an effect in my time (Ich will wirken in meiner Zeit), as Käthe Kollwitz so beautifully and correctly said, in line with my heart. This is why we have created an alternative to gold with Wearth.Worth, which surpasses the qualities of this unique element in two ways and can be a sustainable alternative to the oil-dollar combination, which seems unavoidable (as if it were a conditio a-priori), if the pressure of suffering from fossil and US-American dominance is high enough. While gold and lead shield against many radiations, the radiation of a neutron bomb can only be blocked by wax/paraffin, molecularly there is hardly anything more resistant. Furthermore, our encaustic WEARTH wax tiles not only have the advantage of being absolutely unforgeable, but, unlike gold, they are also available in unlimited quantities, making them an actual 3D counterpart to two-dimensional accounting, whether in digital or old-fashioned banknote form. Well, if you are interested and want to get involved, please contact us at jkk (at) wearth (dot) eu.
The greatest colour of the universe: black. The unanswered question about the mass, character and origin of ‘dark matter’ can possibly be answered with the knowledge that I received from shamans of ancient Mexico: every thought ever conceived (not only humane thoughts count) has weight and all together form the dark sea of consciousness…. Remaining with this thought, thinking it further, it is important to note that thoughts become three-dimensional, and thus physically perceptible, by being thought often enough and by enough people. Then, little by little, a larger and more perceptible body emerges from the thought. This thought is open to verification or falsification, but it is at least a starting point for explaining a phenomenon in a universe in which almost everything changes but nothing is lost…. And the desire to recognise the underlying timeless, eternal laws of this universe, coming from the character of the painted image, which does not move, while everything in and around the cave moves and changes. This desire remains, coming from the painted image, and extending into the practice of philosophy and its children, the sciences.
GEORGES HALDAS:
SALUTATION TERRESTRE
Les fleurs s’ennoblissaient
du regard des passants
La vie à profusion
prodiguait ses merveilles
Mais lui perdu toujours
dans ses rêves majeurs
préférait se construire
des jardins somptueux
des terrasses de luxe
des palais enfantins
Malheur à ceux qu’abusent
les richesses mentales
au point de ne plus voir
au loin briller la mer
l’air tremblant sur les blés
la rosée du matin
Et tout ce que la terre
a déjà de divin
EARTHLY GREETING
The flowers were ennobled
by the gaze of passers-by
Life in profusion
lavished its wonders
But he was still lost
in his major dreams
preferred to build himself
sumptuous gardens
luxurious terraces
childlike palaces
Woe to those who are taken in
by mental wealth
to the point where they can no longer see
the sea shining in the distance
the air trembling on the wheat
the morning dew
And all that the earth
has already of the divine
