The Perception Of A Colour Contained In A Single Glance
What you see influences the options available to you to recognize the uninterrupted transformation of the ordinary into artistic creation.
It’s a hot summer day. The sun is constantly shining all around us. I walk slowly and confidently towards the Palace of Culture when, suddenly, my eyes are surprised by the navy-blue color that marks the parking area for the disabled. It is a skill to know yourself as an artist, one capable of developing close connections with the surrounding space, in the context of a continuous adaptation to new creative realities. But it is a sublime art to see with the corner of your eye, with the flexibility of subjectivism, which is not at first sight subject to the ever-changing trends of design.
The navy-blue color triggered a unique moment of lucidity, of sparks in thought. To this is added the artist’s mastery of deciphering the very core of the world in the gleam of a gaze that senses color, matches it with shades of delicate sensitivity, but not as it really is, not as a result of the action of light (of different wave lengths) on the eye, but as a reference to a model of self-formation that often has a strong spiritual component.
I wonder: does the color know that I look at it in relation to the intensity of the light, not just as an image that meets the qualities of orientation photography? Does she suspect that I see her not only as a powerful tool, capable of convincing and influencing the gaze of the beholders, but as a process of constituting the Self through the construction of the Senses? Does the color navy-blue have a soul, a soul reborn from storms, from beyond the clouds? Does it have a vision, a clarity captured by the correct impression on a perspective of spiritual ennobling in an illusory world? How much does it resonate with its viewer’s perception?
Can you extend the limits of your reality in relation to a means of expressing the value of a visual retrospective that is directly proportional to self-image?
And if the color of infinity, the cause of the desire to return to a certain moment, is a power that directly influences the soul, then what do I really feel when I look at it in relation to a means of expressing the value of a visual retrospective that is directly proportional to self-image? Everyone walks past it, trampling on it, others lose sight of it, not knowing how to use this supreme indicator of the complexity of the drawing to correct certain aspects of the Self and to develop qualities necessary for their own development.
In this case, the value of a visual retrospective is given by that unique state, that unique feeling of the moment when you feel that you dominate time, when you feel that you are caught between dimensions and you do not want to rush things. And this is exactly what I felt, that I can master an eternity in one place, a fact totally contrary to my conceptions of the world and life, that I can concentrate in a single imaginary point, which I named “controller”, all my reflections, experiences and thoughts.
Thus, the image of the self becomes the subject of the image of a new reality : “What I see in myself is what surprises me in the presence of the ordinary.” Through my eyes, so attentive to trivial things, I often manage to distinguish or associate different variations of colors, shapes, styles, between reality and fiction, between evanescent and eternal, especially at the moment when I least want to capture the ordinary. I can already think of myself as an artist who, being in deep relationship with matter, manages to pour his ever-changing imagination into the solid matrix of the visible real, not the real hidden from the eyes of the world. More than ever, the navy-blue color has caught my eye today.
Can you develop your perceptual power over the meaning of the concept of “a true image of parts of reality” in the substratum of a sensitivity and a vision that essentially defines your uniqueness?
In fact, the great advantage of the navy-blue color is that, by integrating it into a decorative image, it can take on many different shades, even if over time it can fade, and can be traced back to the moment of starting a meditation on relationships tied to appearance and essence, with a metaphorical transition between the two themes: the ideal of Renaissance truth and the ideal of performance culture.
After all, only the perceptual power of the human eye is what limits the range of tones in the spectrum of colors inspired by nature, so vivid and expressive. But the impact that navy-blue has on the mind becomes a kind of “axis mundi”, a center of Mannerist art, a kind of mirror in which the artist sees himself, a sign of the world of Morpheus, which indicates that something must be changed regarding reality. Here, without a doubt, the words of the great painter Nicolae Grigorescu reinforce my point of view:
“Eyes are easy to make. A gaze is harder. Everything has a more expressive secret of its own, therein lies the secret of its life. Usually only those who look for it can find it. Woe to him who, seeing a beautiful thing, so alive, for all beautiful things are alive, looking at it only once and only from one point of view, thinks he has seen enough of it ! Nothing is a repetition, no flower, no single thing, no color. No light wave. For millions of years, since the sun sent rays to our earth, no two have come in the same way.”
So too is the case with my color, navy-blue. At that moment, none of them were the same. It seems fair, I could only see it in a photogenic square, open to the gaze that knows how seek the unusual in the banal, where the world does not crowd to observe the artistic representations of beauty. Spontaneously, revealingly, comprehensively, a new eye has opened in the world of forms from now on, an eye that feels that it can color a world with that color that the soul calls the “Great Work” – as if it had known it for a long time, recognizing it, it gladly receives and unites with it.
I build my leadership through any image that comes before my eyes. What I see influences the options available to me to recognize the uninterrupted transformation of the ordinary into an artistic creation. All in all, leadership belongs to the plan of Creation.
The The Perception Of A Colour Contained In A Single Glance can paint an image of all surrounding things, but from which the artist extracts for his own creation only the element whose qualities he amplifies, not the one he destroys by hiding, by forgetting, by routine or by confronting the rest of the world.
