Risco Arisco (Risky Risk)

Risco Arisco

Risky Risk

(Translating, I realized it sould be called Risky Risk rather than Shy Dash or anything else, since Risco may be Dash or Risk. It would be a great title)

 

My commentary

 

From The Cherubinic Wanderer, Angelus Silesius, Sec XVII, I drew the direction for a set I was doing: Risco Arisco (Risky Risk). Risking the risk or risking the dash, to be understood.

I read in Silesius things like:

 

“The rose does not have why
It blooms because it blooms.
Does not care about itself
do not ask if someone sees"...

 

In John Lanchester, Debt to Pleasure:
"An artist should be evaluated for what he did
not do"


Myself:
"Simple or nothing."

 

Here's the risk.

The result was a sequence of dashes (scratches) some with cotton thread (again risk) others with the minimum. Only one with a title, beyond the set Apenas (Only).

 

Risking Angelus Silesius demanded more elaboration, which I did on black background.

Still Angelus Silesius.

"I do not know what I am, I'm not what I know: just one thing, then nothing, a small dot in the circle" This is there in Limiar do Visivel (Threshold of the Visible) collection.

Gabriel Borba, 2016

 

 

Conjunto da Obra

Apenas (Just)

Risco Arisco (Risky Risk)

st (Lendo Angelus Silesius), 2011

Pastel sôbre Papel, 35.00 X 24.00 X 0.00

Works, Series and Collections: Risco Arisco (Risky Risk)

Expositions: Risco Arisco (Risky Risk)