kim pieters studio
‘notes toward a supreme fiction’
six paintings
2015/16
memo: toward the painting set “Notes toward a Supreme Fiction”
or haecceity (the thisness of things)
if he thought about it, these paintings were like a stroll in the park on a beautiful mild summers day. pasearse —to walk oneself. the perfume! meandering slowly amongst soft coloured flowers. or perhaps reading a wallace stevens poem under a leafy tree. its so hot. its cool there. being taken up by this sense of humour. this sentience. the thingness of his world. this world. the ISNess of colour. languid air on skin.
often she thinks of spinoza on days like this. how he rounds on happiness. how happiness is one of those places where one finds the strength to confront what is not happy. to negotiate those many moments, large and small, when one is ashamed to be human. to be generous. this idea about learning to know how to make sure of happiness in our living; inside an ethics of well being. to make sure of a living that is more than survival for each one. a life that is a flourishing for each one.
and also there is the painter bonnard. those delicious colours of ordinary things. gardens. having breakfast. the bath. those moments that immerse life in itself. or none of these things. something else. something rather, that belongs to you. an unstable memory. some fission of colour. the sound of wood. this unfolding present that we are in when we may look at a painting. this particular. possible. alive thing. being such as it is; a whatever that of course, prefers, always to matter.
albert caeiro
august 2015
‘In a birth of sight. The blooming and the musk Were being alive’
1220mm x 1530mm
mixed media on board
1/6 ‘notes toward a supreme fiction’ set
‘And sun and rain a plural, like two lovers That walk away as one in the greenest body’
1220mm x 1530mm
mixed media on board
2/6 ‘notes toward a supreme fiction’ set
‘In my room, the world is beyond my understanding, But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud’
1220mm x 1530mm
mixed media on board
3/6 ‘notes toward a supreme fiction’ set
‘Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation’
1220mm x 1530mm
mixed media on board
4/6 ‘notes toward a supreme fiction’ set
‘It was when I said, “There is no such thing as truth”, That the grapes seemed fatter’
1220mm x 1530mm
mixed media on board
5/6 ‘notes toward a supreme fiction’ set
‘Music falls on silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand’
1220mm x 1530mm
mixed media on board
6/6 ‘notes toward a supreme fiction’ set