It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.
We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
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