Think on your deepest aspiration to build, to strengthen, to enhance life... whatever... towards feeling all life forms, to sense them in all their integrated ways of existence, how they reach out and how they shrink away TO AND FROM one another.
These are the concerns of the profound thinkers such as Moses, Buddha,
Jesus, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, Kant, Heidegger and many
others. (for instance, Husserl in phenomenology, Piaget in child
psychology, Maslow in the holistic approach to self actualized man)
It means- paint, draw, write, read, speak ever so slow and WITHOUT ANY MASTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO SPECIFICALLY.
1. talk, write, paint, draw, carefully out of the forces which are working within you.
2. become, through the process of painting, talking, etc. aware, more and more of these inner and outer ongoings.
3. apply these findings, feelings, knowings to your painting, talking, writing NOT FOR APPROVAL (that
is the most complex process yet ever encountered by man of the modern
work with telecommunication) - to a lesser degree this being influenced
existed always, but now the amount of knowledge is so vast, we feel
inferior.
BUT WAIT, there is an example which helps us to grasp
the situation anew: the hologram, (the plate) of the holographic
process. On this plate, the hologram, you will find in each fraction of
the plate(like cutting a minute corner off), in that minute place is
all(just about all) the information which is contained on the entire
plate. Fascinating.
But let us rehearse, let me say it, write it again: we, all of us, each single one of us has this hologram potentiality in us, WE ARE IT.
Are these great
thoughts of mine? Not at all. I do agree with the thoughts of all men
who wrestled with these concerns for thousands of lives. But it is not
the TIME that is an important factor, it is the life lived
independent(or as close to independence as was capable of so doing, so
living). Therefore, their lives matter. Your life matters. People begin
to see your work to be genuine.
Now work, talk, paint- but DO NOT look for approval- just DO... and listen as detached and open as possible.
Feb. 26, 1985
Phillip B. Klingler attended Professor Wolfram Niessen's art classes at Northern Michigan University in the early 1980's. After leaving the university, Klingler and Niessen continued a vigorous correspondence until the mid-90's. This blog consists of excerpts from their correspondence, photos and other information about Wolfram Niessen's work and life.
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