You are the world

You are the world, détail

Ma double inspiration pour ce dessin-aquarelle: une affiche pour un spectacle de danse contemporaine vue à Beyrouth lors de mon voyage en avril 2012 et un magnifique texte du penseur et philosophe indien Jiddu Krishnamurti sur l’universalité de l’être et la connaissance de soi, "The whole of humankind is in each of us" ("L'humanité toute entière est en chacun de nous"). 
 
Le texte entourant l’image est tiré du premier chapitre de « You are the world », publié en 1968.

Aquarelle et pastel gras, 02.02.2013

"The whole of humankind is in each one of us, in both the conscious and the unconscious, the deeper layers. One is the result of thousands of years; embedded in each one of us - as one can find if one knows how to delve into it, go deeply inside - is the whole history, the whole knowledge, of the past. That is why self-knowledge is immensely important. "Oneself'' is now second - hand; one repeats what others have told us, whether it be Freud or whoever the specialist. If one wants to know oneself one cannot look through the eyes of the specialist; one has to look directly at oneself. (...)
Learning is a constant, non-accumulative process, and "myself'' is something changing all the time, new thoughts, new feelings, new variations, new intimations, new hints. To learn is not something related to the past or the future; (...) the mind must be in a constant state of learning, therefore always in the active present, always fresh; not stale with the accumulated knowledge of yesterday.  (...) Then the mind becomes extraordinarily alert, aware and sharp to look." J. Krishnamurti, You Are The World, Chapter 1, 18th October 1968, 1st Public Talk at Brandeis University