As if world was designed

Kant’s proposition was that a judgement of taste contains a ground of satisfaction for everyone and that it has universal properties that we all have in common. This universality presupposes that aesthetic judgement involves a claim that everyone should agree to one’s aesthetic judgement but actually there is no verifiable proof that they will. This demand is communicative. It shows as if world was designed, it is suitable, appropriate for the humankind – world is actually smiling at us through beauty.

Appearance

Appearing is something I cannot get hold of. Appearing veils with its shine a place in cache that drapes both questions and mystery. If I look at a painting something appears, shows itself. Through this manifestation of appearing the appearance shapes conception into sensible forms that are nevertheless open and that are not given by any predefined meanings and that cannot be reduced to the painting's conceptual qualities.

The condensed moment of painting

The essence of a painting is an oscillation. Painting is neither a prescription nor an expression. Or is it just a hint of an operation of the world showing that it does not present itself as an object at all? Painting carries only borrowed elements, it resembles them but is always another. Leaping into this painting's oscillation means to me to reach a momentary presence in which I am condensed in a precise and spatial moment as withdrawn from the surface to be seen.

Stages of completion

How and what makes a painting complete? To face the dilemma: painting with it's imperfections and a painter with her lack of skill. The painting laying bare on my studio's floor demanding tirelessly to be completed. Its completion is like puzzle completed. Painting's many faces show us life as an ongoing duration, surpassing the painter and her relevance as a sole medium. A completed painting - a finite unfinity.

Words

When we talk about painting what do the words do? Do they rip off the painting making it void like killing it? The words represent only ideas and they make the painting behind them vanish. Words separate the painting from itself. I have been thinking if it is the painting that anyway demands the words, opens itself up for words, if there is a disguised connection between words and the language of painting.

Chance

Painting means an oppurtunity for a chance. Chance does not happen but through a work. Ideas tend to stiffen and make paintings more boring. One wants to get rid of any ideas as soon as possible. Ideas tend to haunt though. Usually, in the beginning, there is a vague idea of some form, colour, feeling, place and time or even of a sound or a smell. The first idea can also be some kind of collection or combination of these all. A painter does not usually know where these essences come from but it is through work that the painting really develops, and into new directions.
Painting trusts in painter and wants to show something of the reality, figure it out. Painter's task is to trust in a painting, in what Ihe/she is doing. It is then chance's role to fill the void, the gap between me, actuality and a painting, add something extra, something unknown to the painting, that excess of the reality, that is always out there.

Oscillation

Normally a painting has been excisting a long time before it has become a painting. Its excisting is oscillating in the virtual, that is like a mouth, opening and closing. It is not a matter of a fixed idea, but a matter of letting the painting happen.

Virtual

I think it was Heidegger who told that a gesture is a gathering of the bearing. I like to think that painting is a medium for this gesture. A painter is alongside the event of painting and has given his/hers body to the painting in which the gesture can write.
In a painting it is not possible to separate possible and real. Painting is a kind of proof for that. It figures itself.
The virtual opens a space that gathers at the same time, figures itself. Virtuality is always actuality.

Gestures

For a painter the painting is a container of gestures. You can think of a painting as a medium for gestures or as a threshold that opens up the gestures. Painting gives proof of gestures. What is then a gesture?