YNG, Road's Gaze, Oil on canvas, 2015
YNG, Stones' Gaze, Oil on canvas, 2015
The gaze comes from within the stone and the road. It is not
the road that is being depicted but its imaginary gaze that ‘sees’ itself and
the world from its inside. The lines in these paintings are similarly so. They
are not the ‘perfect’ lines as in Matisse’s drawings. Rather, they are drawn as
they are from the inside: wet, leaking, un-stable, coming out in different
quantities. Lines that emerge from their own inside.
This
imagination – material imagination – comes not only from Gaston Bachelard’s
conceptualization, but also, and especially, from the experiences of pregnancy,
birth and bringing up and caring for children. It is these maternal experiences
that re-wired and gave birth to new neurons in our body and brain. This
imagination, this ‘maternal imagination’ enables to ‘see’ inside things, from their
points of view, where seeing involves all the senses working together. Inhale –
exhale. Inhale – exhale.
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