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The Sea, the Stone, the Light...


This series of charcoal drawings named The Sea, the Stone and the Light was made in the solitude and quietness of Petrčane, the place of Ivan's forefathers (near Zadar), during the summers of 2000 and 2001. It is an intimate diary of meditation and self-examination about the phenomenon of drawing. It is also about religion and its relationship to nature and people looking at it through the consequences of war in a primitive social environment.

War. Some primitive people; rural enviroment; fake christian morality; hypocrism and nationalism; xenophobia and racism; homophobia and sexism; poverty and materialism; different ideologies and incompatibile generations; Internet boy with people from nineteenth century.

Disappointed in people, disordered faith and leaned-down head. I was going to the silence; My own desert. Unaware, I wanted to be alone with Him; to discover Him - not more than, not more or less than - I am capable to find him; to celebrate Him in the only way I am capable to celebrate Him -- with my own hands. By drawing. Like the scientist when he draws a sketch to solve a problem, I was drawing the only thing that has been left pure. In the light of brother Sun, in the sounds of sister Water and in the warmness of brother Stone, I was looking for friends, togetherness, our source, our own Father.

I've found the border where reality goes into abstraction, physical into metaphysical. I came, perhaps, to the line between two of Plato's worlds.Instead of the Sea, math had opened up in front of me. The Light has remained a secret, and, instead the people, here are the portraits of the Stones! Of the dumb perpetual icons. Of the silence. Of the peace.

 
I.R, Zagreb, 2001.
 
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