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.
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
Former studio in Nerudova street | Prague
No artist tolerates reality.. F. Nietzche
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
Art exhibition Not of the mind | Prague | until September 30
I am pleased to invite you to exhibition Not of the mind that is taking place at industrial gallery space Stara cistirna odpadnich vod, Bubenec in Prague. The exhibition will last until September 30 and it provides the space for my most recent abstract paintings which were created at historically significant Nerudova street in Prague and which concern the act of going beyond.
“The act of going beyond what is usually known and thought either in perceptions or creations can be understood, as Ordo Amoris reflects, as an invitation to a space that the mind would name “the miracles”. Devoid of all that makes us feel comfortable in the familiar, the space of freedom occurs where all that is is in a pure unconditional creation. Either to create it or to perceive it, by ignoring the habitual responses or unconscious thoughts, Ordo Amoris creates the frequency of being where there is the clarity of doing in so-called non-doing, where all that is provides the space into the unknown and to a priori freedom. “I study the space where questions and subsequent conversations arise between the universal energies of something considered, as an intention, the primary source of all the movement in the Universe, and on the other hand the freedom as the energy a priori inherent in all that is.” What is to go on the canvas, she reflects, is not a picture, nor an idea, not the event, but that “what is”. “I do not have tendencies to name my work abstract. The works without conceptions are not my projections, nor expressions, it has nothing to do with myself, nor my feelings. It is not self-projected, the self is not even there. It is something beyond all experiencing as we know it.” The work, with its ethereal organic forms that are not conditioned yet are not automatic arising from subconscious, are rather a fluent transcendence of all that is, even itself. Being metaphysical in scope it can serve as a juxtaposition between that which we are conditioned to know and to think and that which comes from a priori freedom. Is it not, then, the dissolved self in all that is without its hints or tendencies and freely moving in a gap in between thoughts, the truest essence of its own? The question is not here to be answered. Ordo Amoris believes that "in our willingness to step into the unknown, the wisdom of uncertainty, where the freedom from our conditioning lies, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”
Invitation to opening of art exhibition Not of the mind | August 18 | Prague
I am pleased and honoured to invite you all to opening of my exhibition "Not of the mind" that will take place at exquisite industrial gallery space of Stará čistírna odpadních vod Bubeneč
on August 18 from 17:00.
The exhibition will last until September 30 and it will provide the space for my most recent abstract paintings which were created at historically significant Nerudova street in Prague and which concern the act of going beyond.
“The act of going beyond what is usually known and thought either in perceptions or creations can be understood, as Ordo Amoris reflects, as an invitation to a space that the mind would name “the miracles”. Devoid of all that makes us feel comfortable in the familiar, the space of freedom occurs where all that is is in a pure unconditional creation. Either to create it or to perceive it, by ignoring the habitual responses or unconscious thoughts, Ordo Amoris creates the frequency of being where there is the clarity of doing in so-called non-doing, where all that is provides the space into the unknown and to a priori freedom. “I study the space where questions and subsequent conversations arise between the universal energies of something considered, as an intention, the primary source of all the movement in the Universe, and on the other hand the freedom as the energy a priori inherent in all that is.” What is to go on the canvas, she reflects, is not a picture, nor an idea, not the event, but that “what is”. “I do not have tendencies to name my work abstract. The works without conceptions are not my projections, nor expressions, it has nothing to do with myself, nor my feelings. It is not self-projected, the self is not even there. It is something beyond all experiencing as we know it.” The work, with its ethereal organic forms that are not conditioned yet are not automatic arising from subconscious, are rather a fluent transcendence of all that is, even itself. Being metaphysical in scope it can serve as a juxtaposition between that which we are conditioned to know and to think and that which comes from a priori freedom. Is it not, then, the dissolved self in all that is without its hints or tendencies and freely moving in a gap in between thoughts, the truest essence of its own? The question is not here to be answered. Ordo Amoris believes that "in our willingness to step into the unknown, the wisdom of uncertainty, where the freedom from our conditioning lies, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”
With the team of gallery space I look forward to seeing you and your friends on Tuesday, August 18, from 17:00, at Papírenská 6, Prague 6 - Bubeneč.
Eternal movement
Meditation is not a search, it's not a seeking, a probing, an exploration. It is an explosion and discovery. It's not the taming of the brain to conform nor is it a self-introspective analysis, it is certainly not the training in concentration which includes, chooses and denies. It's something that comes naturally, when all positive and negative assertions and accomplishments have been understood and drop away easily. It is the total emptiness of the brain. It's the emptiness that is essential, not what's in the emptiness, there is seeing only from emptiness, all virtue, not social morality and respectability, springs from it. It's out of this emptiness love comes, otherwise it's not love. Foundation of righteousness is in this emptiness. It's the end and beginning of all things.
These magical works on photography are created with Flexaret camera on Kodak film, Portra 160, 120mm.
Exhibition wu-wei | Bali
...at the still point of the turning world, there the dance is, but neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. Eliot
When wu-wei is done, nothing is left undone..
The works I created for this exhibition represent nothing and yet they represent the most essential truth. The truth which is not possible to know, nor to describe, neither to think about it.
The exhibition with my new artworks along with meditative works of Stepan Vrzala was possible to see in unique gallery space Workshopbali in Ubud, Bali until April 5th 2019.