The Book came into existence as need of processing experiences that I collected into myself – mainly within a few years of my studies, although it was rather the results of some natural factors inasmuch as of various sets of circumstances (or providences), which in turn let me meet the persons I met, which in turn influenced me and so on.
In short: the Book was intended to be an expression of everything. In fact I even wanted it to be everything, not just only the expression of it. Yes, really... Seemingly it is a task that could never be accomplished and thus the Book seems to be immanently unfinished. But this 'imperfective aspect' of the Book makes it really everything. Without that 'imperfection' it could never become the whole – what is after all everything if not the entirety of finished and unfinished? Voilà! That's the Book.
I had to choose what form of this everything I needed/felt the most – and I found that for me it was the people I have ever met. I tried to wrote in the Book their names, 1124 altogether. The imperfective aspect is well seen in this context especially because I am not able to remember really all those people. Each and every name in the Book is related to some part of my life, however. Even the shortest chance encounter has influenced me in some way, one can say: has left the mark of person I met. Let alone close friends and family.
If I would interpret further the Book, I'd say the names build one level (layer). The other levels (layers) would be transparency, error, symmetry and movement. These are things that in a way create our sensation of the wholeness and thus of everything.
One of the real symmetries of our world is created by the relation between things that are symmetric and things that are not. Or better: between things that don't share the same type of symmetry although thay possess, of course, their own, interior symmetry. It sounds like abstraction but in fact is really simple and real and has its part in our symmetry of everyday. If we can see it, I think it is thanks to transparency which reveals to us that in every little thing there is, yes yes, there is everything!
Hm?
Symmetry and asymmetry create real symmetry. There's no symmetry without asymmetry and no asymmetry without symmetry. Through asymmetry always shows symmetry and vice versa: transparency of symmetry let us see asymmetry. It is true for other opposites – they all create real symmetry and are mutually transparent. In everything there's everything. Through every thing and every phenomenon one can see everything.
A single thing and a single phenomenon are exactly what they are. Because they cannot be anything else – they are everything. They are finished and complete.
One can think about error as of transparency. Until we don't make mistakes we ignore some part of our experience. Let's say you are trying to draw a straight line. Until your hand doesn't tremble you don't even know that you are human being, that your capabilities are limited by, among other things, the symmetry of the body and its permanent movement. You cannot draw a line like e.g. a computer does, because you have different kind of symmetry than it has. But it does not mean that you nor a computer hasn't got any. Your line correspond to your symmetry.
Let's say now you draw a spiral. Even if it isn't as precise as a spiral you can draw using a computer, both – a computer spiral and yours – are spirals. So you have two spirals that don't share common symmetry although there is symmetry between them.
That way one can see the symmetry that embrace every little part of the world and, what is no less important, that every little thing has its own interior symmetry. Every thing is part of everything and everything is in every thing.
You can say "It's not as simple as you say 'cause I don't seem to understand what you are talking about". It's true it is something very hard to write about. But in my opinion it is very easy to feel. And finaly only that way one can know everything, by feeling it. I hope most people had, even once, that moment when the univers seemed to be in them. That was it, the total symmetry of everything in every thing.
Voilà! That's the Book...
I made the Book as my diploma work at Fine Arts Academy in Poznań.
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