DOT
Dot, line, form. That’s how first class in Art school starts. All forms start from the point where pencil touches the surface. Then we will draw square and circle and the last will be very familiar, but the harder to draw, because of the perfection of the outline you need to achieve.
What’s the mathematical formula for circle, for it’s circumference C=2πr, simple, but to come to the point, where we can call figure the circle, we need to increase the amounts of angles of square to come to the perfection of circle.
Some of those thoughts came to me in the plane from one of my home cities to another one, getting higher in the air, I can see less of the landscape all became so scaled, so on the schematic map those cities will be just small dots.
If you want me to make you read on repeat let me put my words in circle.
If you want me to to make a statement let me put at the end of the sentence a dot. Which is a circle, but so scaled on the map of words, so it become dot.
The flag and symbol of the most balanced country in our world is also circle, just a red dot on the white pure sheet.
Why do we always strive for the dot, for the form of circle?
One of the easiest psychological test, where you can recognise some major characteristics of your personality will look like that: you have circle, square, triangle, rectangle and zigzag, line them by your own preferences. If person chooses circle first, they will say that this person rather balanced, peaceful and calm, like the circle, which person chose ate all the sharp corners of his personality and rounded them to the perfection.
Circle is a very natural form, we all craving for it in creating everyday life: toilet paper roll, tablets ( drugs), plates and trays, bottles and cans, coins and candles they all will have form of circle at one angle.
Feels like circle can solve complicated problems - we have intersection of many roads, which we can graphically image as lines, to solve the complicity of them we will apply circle in the middle and now we know, that we will can just create a rule, that the one who started the manner first will have a priority.
A circle form of the round table of King Arthur implies that participants are equalised by lack of a distinguished geometrical position of the one who rules.
The form of our planet itself is a sphere, in two dimentional appereance - circle and depend on the scale we are looking at it it becomes a dot.
Combination of dot and white, white I mean colour, is something especially magnificent and even magical for me. Kenya Hara´s 100 White, made me look at white as a complex phenomena. And when I frame it in a form of dot it seems to me as ZEN itself can appear in it.
As a first sign of coming migraine I will see white half transparent dots in the air. As a solution for the attack I will take white circles of painkiller, close my eyes, lay in a cold dark room and try to concentrate on inner white circle of light between my eyes.
When we will have to perform, we would have to go to the circle of light on the stage. It will make us visible, it will give us power to be seen.
To let this manifesto live it’s life and be continued, I will place at the end not one, but three dots…
DOT gallery ︎︎︎