Chronos Protonogos

"Happy the eye which no longer looks, for all is presence and its own vision from outside itself looks at it!" Octavio Paz

 

The chrónos prôtogonos, in our era is understood as circular time and cosmic principle, linear time, fleeting and irreversible.

But time is not only "something that devours or denies life and the reality that surrounds it", it is an "agent of life", a "certainty of realization" and even the "bosom of life itself” and can heal the temporary agony of things through the instantaneous observation of the whole. It is also revealing of otherness, leap into the absolute, epiphany, presence of the cosmic mystery, rescue of primitive unity and plenitude, intermediary between consciousness and the real world

Faced with a time converted into an economic good without any relation to man, I propose the alternative of a plurality of temporality in which the inexorable transience does not prevent an appropriation of the events by the human being.

 

From large to monumental, this series recounts epic battles of survival, emotions and collective actions. Through this work, the eye of the public makes the surrounding world a genuine feast of the gaze in which the gaze and the viewpoint alternately become an eye and an image reflected in an infinite mirror.

Eros

At the beginning was the Void, and the Night, and the black Erebus, and the broad Tartarus; Earth, air, and sky did not exist yet. But in the infinite depths of Erebus, the dark-winged night bore a germ-less egg, from which Eros came out.

The egg is the origin of everything, a symbol of primordial unity. It is the image of the living completed, representing the fullness of being, which is gradually degraded to the non-being of individual existence. Eros is the power that integrates and reconciles opposites and contraries; it is the primordial force that unifies the differentiated aspects of a world torn by tensions.




Brahmânda (Chronos Protogonos)

"Happy the eye that no longer looks because everything is presence and his own vision outside himself looks back at him!"       -Octavio Paz-

The chronos protogonos, in our era, is understood as circular time and cosmic principle, linear, fleeting and irreversible time.

But time is not only "something that devours or denies life and the reality that surrounds it", it is about an "agent of life" and even the "bosom of life” itself. It is also revealing of otherness, a jump to the absolute, epiphany, presence of the cosmic mystery, intermediary between consciousness and the true world

Faced with a time converted into an economic good without any relation to man, a world where biodiversity is bought and sold, I propose the alternative of a plural temporality in which the inexorable transience does not prevent an appropriation of the event by the human being. A place where we can realize that we are born from the earth to return to it and that we form a coherent whole.

Vital element, the seed draws strength from its roots, which are like in another dimension of reality, breaks the Earth and comes out towards the light and then always goes towards the light and, as in a mirror, its roots move towards the Center of the Earth. And so we leave Earth from within, bringing to light aspects of our personality, attitudes or gifts that were deeply stored waiting for the right moment.

 

 


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