Homage

“Whole and unity; thing or entity or being. Every whole is a unity and every unity that is divisible is a whole. … Every unity is something and not nothing. Any unity is a thing or an entity or a being. Objects and concepts are unities and beings.” ~ Kurt Gödel

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Concepts and thoughts are self-referential. An incestuous repetitive cycle. It becomes an invert of the original thought and loses itself in interpretations, to boldly arrive at the same concept again. Your thoughts are trekking with a mission to discover the unknown and soon realizes that instead it is following an unknown individual and when tapped on the shoulder, it is yourself that turns around. A variety of experiments revealed the peculiar phenomenon of the ambulatory blindfolded human. He cannot walk in a straight line. His path will slowly curve and curl and at times finds himself back where he has started. In the East you will find this similar concept in the symbol of Ensō – the incomplete circle – a symbol that through its simplicity reminds us that our ideas of the absolute are incomplete.

Nature drawing in Japan by Anja Marais

"Full Moon in Japan" by Anja Marais ©2009

About Marais

Anja Marais is an artist with interdisciplinary projects consisting of sculpture, photography, installation and film that present the idea of the perpetual outlander. For more information visit http://www.anjamarais.com
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