8th of January 2018. Ibiza.
Over the weekend I also did a very small 15
minute walk before painting and it was very good. It made me think that
continuity is more valuable that the amount of time in a session. It´s like
training a muscle. Once you are in shape you can benefit from smaller sessions
also. It seem like in 15 minutes I was fully engaged, when the time before a
whole hour wasn´t enough. I guess that
to do this properly I have to resolve issues somehow so they don´t interfere
with the work.
Anyway, today, I did a full hour session. I
also went for the “detail searching technique” and it took me to a space of puzzles.
It started by concentrating on the patterns
on the pavement of the promenade. One piece fitting into the next. My attention
went on and on, from the paved path to the buildings and small walls that meet
and more and more pieces all fit one into the next. It all felt like this,
wherever I looked.
Puzzles, more puzzles. All man made. We
walk though and on a space organised into spaces, definitions, where one thing
ends and the next starts. Some are cluttered and other give more sensation of
space.
I walked with a sensation of having
discovered a revelation.
Once
I sat down to write all this down in my diary I rationalised these sensations
and perceptions as I usually do. I looked up to the sky and over to the sea and
it´s horizon and couldn´t find the same puzzle. I guess it is also there, well,
I know it is there but it wasn´t evident to the naked eye. I know we only
imitate nature.
When I got home I sat in my garden and I
also looked for the puzzle sensation and there I was able to “see” it. The bark
on the trees, shapes in the leaves, etc…
The puzzle represents the balance. Once we
move one element, it affects all the rest and it is no longer the same. Here I
find myself returning to one of the founding ideas of the painting of the
Labyrinth. We are all a part of the network that connects us all and affects
us.
