THEME: Broken pieces, unbroken; thread; continuum; timeline; fragments of knowledge; ancient texts; connections, disintegration; detached; unfinished; incomplete; fracture; sever; tear apart.
INSPIRATION: Music; abstract symbols created to communicate sound. The signs and symbols we create in order to communicate – iconographic symbols, mnemonics, graphemes, alphabets, syllabary – all marks made on a surface in order to communicate or to express our oral language in one way or another. But these signs and symbols only communicate to someone who understands them or who can interpret these marks – to anyone else they are just unintelligible squiggles.
‘With few exceptions music has been for centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist’s soul, in musical sound.
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. And from this results that modern desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction, for repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in motion.’
From: The Art of Spiritual Harmony by Wassily Kandinsky.
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