new atelier | Malá Strana | Prague
..not about what is seen, but about what is known forever in the Spirit.
New atelier in a sacred old monastery house from the 17th century in Malá Strana, nestled in the natural surroundings of Petrin hill in the center of old Prague.
I will be delighted and honored to welcome you in the new studio.
Please send me an email for the studio visit. I am looking forward to meeting you.
Mystical Prague
studio Letná, Prague
"To create life one has to love. To create a great work of art one has to love truth with the passion of a maniac. If society does not perceive this love, humanity perhaps will.” John Graham, System and Dialectics of Art, published in 1937
New works on paper
It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain. It is a paradox that keeping still can lead us so fully into life and being.
Our minds do not like paradoxes. We want things to be clear, so we can maintain our illusions of safety.
Certainty breeds tremendous smugness. We each possess a deeper level of being, however, which loves paradox.
It knows that summer is already growing like a seed in the depth of winter. It knows that the moment we are born, we begin to die. It knows that all of life shimmers, in shades of becoming-that shadow and light are always together, the visible mingled with the invisible.
When we sit in stillness we are profoundly active. Keeping silent, we hear the roar of existence.
Through our willingness to be the one we are, we become one with everything.
Works on paper, mixed media on paper, 42x30 cm or 60x42 cm, 2022-2023
Provence and Tuscany | new works on paper
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that - perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this - you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.
The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Works on paper created in serenity of sublime hills of Provence and Tuscany. Mixed media on paper, 42x29,5 cm, 2022
Bali | film photography
Former studio in Nerudova street | Prague
No artist tolerates reality.. F. Nietzche
Italy and Provence on film
In alignment with Nature | interview in Obecni Noviny Male Strany a Hradcan
Such an honor to walk a path of creation in the most beautiful, charmy, calm, and historically significant part in the centre of Prague, Mala Strana which happened to be for me a real home. Thank you Obecni Noviny Male Strany a Hradcan for this article.
Dream within a dream | video
..dream within a dream.
Dream as a representation of the primary intention, the first idea, inner movement, tendency that sets the direction for its further manifestation into form. All that is, all that exists comes from this movement. The ever present moving power inherent in every cell, in every planet, every star, human being, every soul, seed and plant, every grain of soil, movement of leaf, drop of water. We are that energy that we cannot escape. The whole existence in its physical form is manifestation of this energy, this spirit. To dream is to connect with this infinite spirit, with the great source. To dream is to live from our Soul, as the manifestation of this great energy in its infinitely unique forms. To live our unique expression. And to recognise it, to get to know it, we need to listen to its voice that speaks a language of passion, desire, intention, idea that sets us free. Idea that comes from the Source, the unified field of all the possibilities that the mind even cannot imagine. That is the great freedom. Maybe the greatest one. To allow to dream. Unconditionally, utterly. That all infinitely exist. To be awake but to dream is one of the greatest awakenings. Awakening into freedom where there is no division.
Please, feel free to immerse yourself into the depth of infinite possibilities through this short video I had a great pleasure to create for you..
with divine music by Almaghoot, Deep Blue
Film photographs from Europe
“The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is to remove the excess stone.” Michelangelo
Reverie of artist..
..the dawn mist glowing, the water flowing, endless river, forever and ever.
When dark meets light | film photography from Bali, Thailand and Africa
..when the night meets with dawn, dark with light, ignorance with love..and the plant deep from its roots grows and the flower blooms, and they touch again each other and understand.
Exhibition Living the truth | Artisème | Prague
I AM SURE we all have sometime or other experienced a great sense of tranquillity and beauty coming to us from the green fields, the setting sun, the still waters, or the snowcapped peaks. But what is beauty? Is it merely the appreciation that we feel, or is beauty a thing apart from perception? If you have good taste in clothes, if you use colours that harmonize, if you have dignified manners, if you speak quietly and hold yourself erect, all that makes for beauty, does it not? But that is merely the outward expression of an inward state, like a poem you write or a picture you paint. You can look at the green field reflected in the river and experience no sense of beauty, just pass it by. If, like the fisherman, you see every day the swallows flying low over the water, it probably means very little to you; but if you are aware of the extraordinary beauty of something like that, what is it that happens within you and makes you say, "How very beautiful"? What goes to make up this inward sense of beauty? There is the beauty of outward form: tasteful clothes, nice pictures, attractive furniture, or no furniture at all with bare, well-proportioned walls, windows that are perfect in shape, and so on. I am not talking merely of that, but of what goes to make up this inward beauty.
Surely, to have this inward beauty, there must be complete abandonment; the sense of not being held, of no restraint, no defence, no resistance; but abandonment becomes chaotic if there is no austerity with it. And do we know what it means to be austere, to be satisfied with little and not to think in terms of 'the more'? There must be this abandonment with deep inward austerity - the austerity that is extraordinarily simple because the mind is not acquiring, gaining, not thinking in terms of `the more'. It is the simplicity born of abandonment with austerity that brings about the state of creative beauty. But if there is no love you cannot be simple, you cannot be austere. You may talk about simplicity and austerity, but without love they are merely a form of compulsion, and therefore there is no abandonment. Only he has love who abandons himself, forgets himself completely, and thereby brings about the state of creative beauty.
Beauty obviously includes beauty of form; but without inward beauty, the mere sensual appreciation of beauty of form leads to degradation, disintegration. There is inward beauty only when you feel real love for people and for all the things of the earth; and with that love there comes a tremendous sense of consideration, watchfulness, patience. You may have prefect technique, as a singer or a poet, you may know how to paint or put words together, but without this creative beauty inside, your talent will have very little significance.
Unfortunately, most of us are becoming mere technicians. We pass examinations, acquire this or that technique in order to earn a livelihood; but to acquire technique or develop capacity without paying attention to the inner state, brings about ugliness and chaos in the world. If we awaken creative beauty inwardly, it expresses itself outwardly, and then there is order. But that is much more difficult than acquiring a technique, because it means abandoning ourselves completely, being without fear, without restraint, without resistance, without defence; and we can thus abandon ourselves only when there is austerity, a sense of great inward simplicity. Outwardly we may be simple, we may have but few clothes and be satisfied with one meal a day; but that is not austerity. There is austerity when the mind is capable of infinite experience - when it has experience, and yet remains very simple. But that state can come into being only when the mind is no longer thinking in terms of `the more', in terms of having or becoming something through time.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The exhibition was possible to see in Artisème, Prague, until October 31, 2019