I’m reading about the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s relationship with artist Eduardo Chilida. I found there point of view very interesting and of my personal perception and thought.  I enjoy, look forward to, have many, I am always reaching for more experiences.  From those experiences I do build perception but with that also comes the art. My art is the heart of who I am. In this process I can say the journey reveals discovery leading to development of my works. Unlike Eduardo Chillida, I do not feel that experience is one foot in the past. I like to think that all of me even in reflection is in the present or the now.

This is an excerpt of the reading:

Eduardo Chillida engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. When the two men met, they discovered that from different angles, they were “working” with space in the same way. Heidegger wrote: “We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place,” and that sculpture is thereby “…the embodiment of places.” Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.

Chillida has been quoted as saying: “My whole Work is a journey of discovery in Space. Space is the liveliest of all, the one that surrounds us. …I do not believe so much in experience. I think it is conservative. I believe in perception, which is something else. It is riskier and more progressive. There is something that still wants to progress and grow. Also, this is what I think makes you perceive, and perceiving directly acts upon the present, but with one foot firmly planted in the future. Experience, on the other hand, does the contrary: you are in the present, but with one foot in the past. In other words, I prefer the position of perception. All of my work is the progeny of the question. I am a specialist in asking questions, some without answers.”

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