As much.... white resides in black as chaos resides in calm. An enhanced significance of a black dot on a white canvas and visa-versa. The significance of negative space in real space, the ability to percive the negative space as the actual image and the image as a negative space, the oscillation, the shift, the play, the illusion.... a game... both un-true... both true, this too that too........ its a chaos & a calm constantly.. either within or external.
On my farewell meeting before I was to proceed for my artist residency at Copenhagen Denmark, facilitated by H.E Mr Freddy Svane, Ambassador at Royal Embassy of Denmark in New Delhi, India, once again landed up talking about the 'Tacit dimension & knowledge'
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge ) for which he has authored a book, being an abstractionist, 'Tacit knowledge' as explained by Freddy earlier had really excited me.
"keep in touch with your roots" " space is an artist's dream" he said with a final hug and a hand shake.
I wondered about the word Ambassador.... how true... and then just yesterday I met the Danish wife of an artist colleague from the same studio building as mine. She greeted me with amazing information about Rev Dr Kaj Baago, I felt somewhat sheepish for not having known about this great man a missionary, theologist, writer, spiritual revolutionary & Ambassador to India during the 1980's.
Amazed .... here are some must see links....
- http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1634
- Google books with Dr Kaj Baago
How could such Danish contributions & work with various NGOs go un-noticed by Indian Media & public at large, it would be nice to see some of his great writings translated to English and Hindi for larger benefit to the society.
Pain & beauty locked together it would seem.
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