Freedoms Project

Aquarelle, pastels gras et collages, 07.03.2013

"What you are, the world is. So your problem is the world's problem.
(...) We want to bring about alteration through a system or through a revolution in ideas or values based on a system, forgetting that it is you and I who create society, who bring about confusion or order by the way in which we live.
So we must begin near, that is we must concern ourselves with our daily existence, with our daily thoughts and feelings and actions which are revealed in the manner of earning our livelihood and in our relationship with ideas or beliefs."
Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom, Chapter 3, "Individual and Society"

"El mundo es lo que vosotros sois. Vuestro problema es el problema del mundo.
(...) Pretendemos producir alteraciones mediante sistemas o una revolución en las ideas o los valores, basada en tal o cual sistema, olvidando que somos vosotros y yo quienes creamos la sociedad y producimos el orden o la confusión con nuestra manera de vivir.
Debemos entonces empezar por lo que está más próximo; tenemos que preocuparnos por nuestra existencia diaria, por nuestros actos, pensamientos y sentimientos de todos los días, los cuales se revelan en el modo de ganarnos la vida y en nuestra relación con las ideas y las creencias." 
 Jiddu Krishnamurti, La Libertad Primera y Última, 3er cap., "El individuo y la sociedad"

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