…it remains just play: the highest and the most
profound play. But this ‘just’ is everything, the
one, the only.
Martin Heidegger
Ink 1989 - 1999
ars- skill as result of knowledge
and practice/ its display or
application/ artifice/ learning
artifex- master/ skilled practitioner
The artist concentrates upon the process. Emptiness
opens up:
an absolute negativity. One learns to let go:
creative and
deliberately artificial play (Schiller’s
play-instinct as the origin
of visual art); play as freedom (Huizinga); correspondences,
marks, and their ritual manipulation; the act
as gift (Baudrillard).
The unpainted space, virtuality, has the same
value as the
painted one: to see together and treat as a whole
brushmarks
and intervals (Duthuit) activating the entire
surface welling up
from within.
The game is a symbolic repetitive enactment closed
in itself
(Nicholas of Cusa). It is a possible world (Arbib,
Hesse).
What matters is one locating oneself therein –
ritual
renunciation of self (Bataille), Mallarme’s
pure play, the
divine game where the whole of chance is affirmed
in one
throw (Deleuze).
top 
