Arthur Wagenaar
Keywords: Philosophy, Mysticism, Artisanal
Internship: BOLORIA (c/d: Olivier Theyskens, Antwerp)
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‘You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star’
-Thus Spoke Zarathustra written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Here, I understood that a creative design process is not so different from a mystic’s impossible quest to translate God’s visions or messages into words. For example, Hildegard von Bingen, Simone Weil or Titus Brandsma translated their dreams/visions into art, poetry, and songs.
This shifted my interest and attitude toward my personal creative will toward a new metaphysical approach rather than a psychical one.
My Will to Create is as Monk-Work (Monnikenwerk), the endless recreation on one’s own soil. A monastery where it’s not the return of routines and doctrine that changes, bit its inhabitants - in my own monastery of creativity. It often begins with an inhabitant I embrace. Something I allow to collide and reflect with today.
Creating is the eternal return of ploughing one’s own spirit-soil (Meister Eckhart). The work is never done and will always be reused, rediscovered and reformed. Finished is not an ideal state of a subject for a monk.
