"A line is a dot that went for a walk"
A line is a dot that went for a walk said
Paul Klee.
First time I encountered Paul Klee's saying was in my childhood when my
mother used to say about my father:"he has only lines and dots in his
head."
This was the very first time I realized that lines and dots have
something to do with the fact that my father is an engineer.
My brother was lucky to inherit his talent of having lines and dots in
the head, so they set up their own business in this field: they make
designs of pipelines and ducts which supply water for cities and
villages, heat people’s houses and provide electricity in every room.
They know a lot about the mathematics, the proportion, the structuring
and the scaling of lines and dots; they are masters in calculating the
meandering (pipe) lines in 2D (paper) and 3D (software).
My father's and my brother's lines and dots are found everywhere: we can
see them meandering above the ground but we also know they continue
zigzagging underneath, hidden from our eyes: running underground and
within the walls the pipes rule our world; they bring us water, air,
heat and electricity, the essential elements of life.
You can see their work here as I borrowed different lines and dots from
their design projects in order to express my own metaphorical vision:
being a multimedia artist I always try to relate my work to the world
around us in the strong belief that disciplines intersect,
interpenetrate and inseminate each other. I would like to expand the
borders of different media, I connect things which at first sight seem
to be different or are even considered incompatible like the rationality
of mathematics and the poetic nature of art:
In this project of lines and dots my aim is to create a bridge between
rationality and art because I believe that the fuzziness of the
serpentine lines can be a metaphor of life itself: the mysterious
intersection and the zigzagging of lines, dots, and paths of objects,
peoples, feelings and times, all tightly interwoven, is at the same time
rational, physical but also poetic and transcendental. The lines and
dots evoke new meanings in every one of us and as an artist I try to
express my personal thoughts about the way how lines and dots can
communicate.
The lines and dots here recall my father's and my brother's work but
then they "move on" to represent also my artistic point of view. When I
edit movies calculating the time of the individual cuts, when I make
animations or find new sound rhythms, when I open the camera's shutter
speed to see what's hidden beneath the surface, I still observe the
lines: how they meet, converge and split how they run along their
infinite secret paths.