The Artist Manifest

The absolute, which has assumed the character of the Divine in many primitives’ cultures, has become 'abstracted' in the so-called civilized world, a diagram of reality and at the same time its deadly enemy. However, if reality can have an enemy, isn’t it an example par excellence for the validity of the saying, "If you cannot beat them, have them beaten?"

Attention is focused on the concrete - and on the speculative. Results are expected. It remains unclear whether it is the result of the act or of thinking. In fact, they contradict each other. It is either one thing or the other because acting means not understanding - rushing, creating realities. In comparison to understanding, it makes acting impossible. "To understand everything means to forgive everything." It is society that can forgive, and just before the forgiveness, it halts. According to this logic, one should above all, understand nothing.

Part of the omnipotence is to stop time. Being able to do something means to pass time. The transformation of a message is related to this pendulum stroke; because further investigation is carried out in the eyes of the public, while it is already the message. Nevertheless, the message is followed by another, for reasons that are independent of reality and more of a psychological nature. So that, for justice to be practiced, it is necessary to prolong the moment.