Water colour from the Collection Amor Fati
“I looked at Johannes Kepler’s 1619 work, Harmonies Mundi, or Harmony of the Worlds. Kepler expands on Pythagoras’ idea that mathematical relationships express tones or ‘energies’. I love the idea that the planets and stars are playing a symphonic composition that Kepler says aren’t audible, but ‘heard by the soul’. It is this silent symphony that I’m trying to capture. A silver moon sits unobtrusively in the very centre of the composition, a golden sun above, a green world below. Spheres and horizontal lines at specific intervals combine to create an ‘energy field of sound’. I wanted the composition and colors to feel musical, and so I matched the top and bottom halves …. In a way, there is no real ‘upside down’ as both haves are compositionally the same! The idea is that in space this is also the case. It is also a reference to the circle of life. The colors in the two halves are similar, but rather than being the same, they are complimentary. This is to suggest the orderliness and diversity of the universe.”,
a reflection from artist Greg Suffanti.
This colourful aquarel has been made especially for the book of Heidi Muijen about the Quest for Wisdom vision around the board game for global citizenship: Amor Fati, spelende wijsheid voor de kosmopolis.
On page 231, the painting illustrates the need of finding a just benchmark for an economic world order: to this end, myths worldwide inspire a cosmopolitan art of living, which translates the classical wisdom of ‘So Above, So Below’ into philosophical principles. According to that principle, the good life on earth should be arranged according to cosmic laws. The highest good is eudaimonia, or a spiritual happiness of life in the (cosmo)polis: to this end the economic domain is subordinated, by means of an ethical guideline!
- Without frame; size 30*40 cm: € 225,=
Aquarel with a story on the very finest quality Arches paper!
postage and packing included within the Netherlands
For postage abroad request info@questforwisdom.org - With frame: € 250,=
to be collected, please request info@questforwisdom.org
