sometimes/ somedreams/ VANITAS/
MMM-readymade / filmstill / 2005
The work shown is part of my series of works ‚vanitas’.
The term vanitas refers to a quotation in the bible by the preacher Salomo 1,2 as well as to medieval vanitas stillife paintings.
As space and time expand information moves in a continuous stream of consciousness. There is a repetitive repetition of images which are accompanied by an ongoing formation as well as loss of individuality. During that process patterns assimilate, inflate and amalgamate. In this way all intelligent systems move towards abstraction.
My dream becomes your dream.
This loss of individuality makes us suffer and gives us a feeling of alienation being tiny microcosms of a larger system, being ‚ a dream within a dream’.
V A N I T A S
verba Ecclesiastes filii David regis Hierusalem
vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas
quid habet amplius homo de universo labore suo quod laborat sub sole
generatio praeterit et generatio advenit terra vero in aeternum stat
oritur sol et occidit et ad locum suum revertitur inique renascens
gyrat per meridiem et flectitur ad aquilonem lustrans universa circuitu pergit
spiritus et in circulos suos regreditur
omnia flumina intrant mare et mare non redundat ad locum unde exeunt flumina
revertuntur ut iterum fluant
cunctae res difficiles non potest eas homo explicare sermone non saturatur
oculus visu nec auris impletur auditu
quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod
fiendum est.
AT, Prediger Salomo 1-9