ItUnd Journey II

Underlying Concepts of ItUnd and The Artist (in voluntarily exile). 

1_ Analysis: Our ‘reality’ as a human fantasy construct… or in other words, a fairy tale.We, as ‘adults’ in the 21st century, live in a ‘fairy tale world’. Economy, the financial system, capitalism, and money are all based on agreements and belief systems, or ‘modern fairy tales’. We deceive ourselves by overlaying various models and assumptions ‘about’ reality. And then, like a group of lemmings, we chase after these self-invented ‘facts’. Without truly observing, analyzing, and subsequently acting. Example: Belief in Infinite economic growth, without factoring in climate damage.  In short: our ‘reality’ appears suspiciously similar to a fantasy construct. We imagine reality as a species within our grand systems, which is the deep link with art. 

2. Science:

A. Self-organizing dynamic systems: (all of nature: including all biology, psychology, and physics). Complexity arises from simple basic rules. Everything is interconnected. “All life is interconnected,” feedback loops. Everything is always inherently in motion (this can, of course, be true on enormous time scales), energy in-energy out. Panta Rhei, everything flows. Example: complexity: life (literally all life), fractals, feedback loops. 

B. Quantum Mechanics: (probability, likelihood of events). Strange counter-intuitive reality. Based on a system of probability relations, where there’s always an ‘uncertainty principle’. Our most precise knowledge feels very strange. Yet, it’s genuinely scientifically proven. Example: an electron is everywhere at once until it’s measured. Only then does it acquire a definite location. 

C. Paradigm Shifts: The lesson of science is that new insights into reality emerge from time to time. Or how ‘laws’ are discovered that were previously unknown to us. The effect of this is quite literally a different worldview, and thereby a different perception of ourselves. In short, by nature, there’s always a ‘provisional’ temporary truth and thus a perception of that reality. Example: In the past, the Earth was thought to be flat, the universe revolved around the Earth, humans are the pinnacle of creation, etc. 

D. Mathematics, the language of nature? Self-expression of nature?

Mathematics holds a deep mystery for me, is it the most real now? Did mathematics find us? Or did we invent mathematics? 

3. Art:

My experience of envisioning and creating process things!  Where do profound ideas, intuition, and insights come from? What is the source, and where is the source? And how are the source and the receiver connected? Example: Whispering studio. 

4. My life story, childhood memories, personal experiences. Father.

5. Myths, philosophy, assumptions, gods, books, and related amusing anecdotes, songs. Memes. 

6. The need to ‘create a world’ rich in all its different aspects. Which turn out to be deeply intertwined. Where a reader/viewer can almost step into it. 

Text by Vittorio Roerade.

 

 

 

“ItUnd_Journey 1”, 

This is one work, consisting of 160 drawings, carborundum on 3oo gr Fabiano paper. Total seize when on the wall in one straight line, 45 Meter. When grouped in blocks from 8×20 total approximately 9 x 3 Meter. Each individual drawing: 27 x 35 cm. “ItUnd_Journey 1” ‘describes ‘ the adventures of ‘ItUnd and The Artist (in exile)’, and are based on a modern black philosophical fairy tale i’ve written. Which you can find on my “ItUnd’ blog.

Possible personae and characters in ‘ItUnd and The Artist (in exile).

All the works below are pencil on paper, 22,9 x 30,5 cm. They handle about all the different kinds of entities which one can find in ItUnd’s Universe. And they were developed over the last 4 years.