... the lightness of being? Or is it the lightness of havìng? ... I tend to agree that havìng is lighter ... is it the lightness of freshness and of what happens one-off? ... or this of the tension created by the gravity of our decisions and doings? ... decisions and doings that happen in the course of time incessantly; ... in an incessant motion ... a cyclical motion without beginning, middle or end ... with the repressive mood of repetition ...
... repetition is the mother of all knowledge, they used to tell us at school ... weren't they right indeed ... unless we repeat something and consciously live it through, we can't say we have acquired its knowledge ... repetition leads to perception and perception leads to experience ... and experience makes us cognizant ... cognizant and perceptive of phenomena ... cognizant of life and perceptive of time ... cognizant, perceptive and judges of our own self ...
... which is where work with our own self begins ... repetition operates as redemption ... but also stochastic, contemplative ... our daily life is of course a repetition ... we are repeating the same daily routine, stoically sometimes ... but can we really say that one day is the same with the previous one or with an earlier day in our life? ... no, because the different facets evolving in different aspects of our life are innumerable ... and may be combined in any number of ways ... spectacularly ... it may be worth living simply to make a record of all these facets ... I am sure a lifetime wouldn’t suffice ...
... a life of repetition, on paper, of the daily repetition of decisions, doings and feelings ... yes, repetition ultimately operates contemplatively as well ... by repeating something you notice it better; ... and you get answers about its being, as opposed to its havìng ... about what is visible; ... its image; ... its multiple uses; ... the variety of its being; ... the complexity of its nature ...
... you do the same with an object: you study its relationship with space, and time ... repetition operates contemplatively ... you observe, you judge, you partake, you live through, you feel, you act and react ... if you are conscious in that reality, I think that the result can achieve a protagonist role of its own ...with a substance clearly not out of sheer luck ... built on solid principles that are points of reference in the time and space of our daily routine ...
... this is how I’ve lived through The Lightness of Being: in a debate with my obsessive search for the poetic image of wear that I’ve been recording in the past three years, and in conjunction with time and space ... thirty repetitions of images (timewise as many as the days in a month), on 21 x 29.7 centimeters (spacewise same as the most widely used paper size – the A4) ... the result is an image which spells out familiarity at first sight, but also a virgin space for exploration, first by the eyes and then by the mind ...