- Little Gem no.3 -

Moritz Miessl 2011-12-08 23:29:11

I see molecules and atoms and light dancing in your paintings. It has a religious touch, as some sublime things are shining through every molecule...

MonaOates 2011-12-09 02:55:47

Thanks Moritz and Mekk,
my work derives from the unconscious but certainly is influenced visually by science, nature and architecture.
Personally, I work with free association where the perceiver (you and me too) speaks for themselves of what it is he/she sees. Also philosophical and scientific writings inform my abstract concepts.
Conceptually, my art seems always be contemporarily connected to current events or socio-historical events. As you say Moritz science and religion are not too far from each other anymore. A scientific mind is religious in its own right. I am one of them to some extend.

Moritz Miessl 2011-12-10 11:47:36

well, in this case i couldn\'t disagree more... :)
if you close the gap between science and religion you get a obscurantist/esoteric concept of reality, which also closes the gap between objectivity and subjectivity, which in turn is the space where freedom and true acts emerge. And freedom of will is the precondition of art as true creativity. If you merge this two, indeed different, levels you get a pathologic concept of art, where your own \"inner reality\"/neurosis determine what you \"create\". Nothing new could emerge, just the old in the ever recurring re-interpretation of interpretations. True art on the other hand has to be understood as purely perfomative, as something real that is able to structure reality (and cannot be reduced to pure \"opinion\" - art is no opinion, art is truth) around it. There never will be (and hopefully not) a conformity of science and religion, because belief, which comes in the disguise of knowledge is fanaticism, which denies the freedom of choice, which in turn is the principle of art. :)
To your discussion of unconscious i couldn\'t agree more in it\'s contribution to good art - but i would add that the unconscious is closely related to the symbolic order (everyday reality) and has nothing to do with an esoteric/otherwordly space (as Jungians mistakenly believe).

ClaraBacou 2011-12-19 22:51:17

Hey, that\'s interesting, our pieces could work together.
Thanks for your link!