WING QUEST. Acrylic & spraypaint on canvas. 100×146cm. 2011

This piece, such as all the drawings of this blue-red serie, is made as a mandala*.
The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.

In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to the psychologist David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one “to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises.” The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as “a representation of the unconscious self,” and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.

I’ve been working on symetric handmade geometry in order to find myself again. I used this technique as a call to my soul. It went away for a wide, and i needed to make the connexion back on. I found a way while drawing with shapes in a spontaneous way. I allowed myself to forget the figurative dimension of the shapes that would compose this face, or I’d rather say this universe, so that I could get closer to my truth.
This canva has been inspired by this previous drawing. A symetrical face, made of two profiles fusing into one winged being. Traveling inside in order to evolve in a better way outside.

WING QUEST. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 50×70cm. 2011

(Detail) Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 50×70cm. 2011

The conscious eyes closed, in order to provoke the opening of the one able to access to universal unconsciousness. Taking another point of view on my universe, so as to find back my place in it. And make it evolve the right way.

It brought me good and I still need and enjoy to work that way.

WINGQUEST. Portrait by Chase Erachi. 2011

WINGQUEST. (Detail) Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. 100×146cm. 2011

WING QUEST. Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. 100×146cm. 2011

From this serie of draws, were borned 2 first canvas of three.

“FROM DESIRE”. Acrylic on canva. 100×146cm. 2010

In this paint we can see a man sit with one hand on his right knee, the other one helding his grey head. His heart is right here, paint in yellow and red… Then, from one of his mask mouth drip an inversed heart, dark and bigger than his own one. The shade of the body and of the inversed heart is the same.

Behind his head, a keyhole – which he still don’t see yet. And around him his futur potential… We can also see a big orange profile, turned to outside, in communion with the universe and the cosmos representated by the triangle and the round. We could imaginate that the triangle is the funnel through what that round – or the global – the everything – could enter into the human being. One of his eyes is carrying the vision of the third, full of lights.

“TO FULLFILMENT” Acrylic on canva. 100×146cm. 2010

This canvas is following the first one. We recover the sitting man, with still one of his hand on his knee, but the other one didn’t hold his head anymore – which have been cut – but is rising to the sky, becoming the second hand of a second character (who is the same one but in a different space time). We see that this second character is standing up and walking. His left hand isn’t his shades anymore but is standing in the light. The triangle is prolonging his head – of a bright yellow. And a moon behind his head replace the keyhole – which mean that he finded the key !

The eyes behind him aren’t dark anymore but colored with a deep yellow, and the third eyes is entering the face.

The inversed heart is below, small, insignificant.

Gouache on paper. 18×24 cm. 2010. by Remed.

EXHIBITION in Paris. Maison des metallos.

Collaboration with Belgian artist Gwenola CARRERE.

Acrylic, pen and oil chalk on canva. 130×195cm.

By Remed. 2009
Acrylic on canva. 130×190cm.

almost finish (miss one layer of background)

So….this is a fruit of one mounth spent on another planet in order to get my perception of time and life wider. Just changing the place i was or the state of mind so that i can see my life or life as one united “thing”. so everything get relative and fear and doubt are send away. this canva is an invitation for u to do the same.

It says ” EL SPMET”
which is “le temps” in french but reversed.
It says “Tout est éphémère, le tout est permanent”…which means “all is ephemery, the whole is permanent”, that mean even if things live and die, get created then destroyed, there will always be something next…indeed there is no real end…nothing die but rather mutate, or is being transfered into another shape in “reality”. or even if woldn’t be transferd in reality, it would live and be real in imagination…since it will keep on influence our life and way of being.

Then it says “ESSAP PRESENT RUTUF”
which means “PAST PRESENT FUTUR” but with the metters of “past” and futur” put the other way…so that u could imagine your life from the end to the begining….then u’re less worry about what ever could happen next, or i should say before. the only true thing is present…the only real thing, everliving is the movement. thats why u got the word “le mouvement” written under past present futur.
Then, something say “La fin n’est que le début, je peinds, je crée mon vécu”…which means “The end is nothing more but the begining”…this is hope.
And , under that, u got the part of the almighty shape refering to cycles in life. It s written “LADIOSUNIS”. wich is “SINUSOIDAL” with reverse letters order.
And almost finally, i wrote ” De la crestruction, vers la déation” which mre or less means ” from crestruction to deation”…i kind of like that sentence because it s just the fusion and separation of to oposed entity that get to understand eachother better. And the invente word “deation” got something to do with deism, and i believe in energy.

Finally, i was trying to find an association of word that could sum up all this thoughts. I wanted to express, that whatever is the worst disorganised, or fearmakeing, or depressing, or chaotique life or felling u have..it hold inner the key to be equilibrated…I mean CHAOS IS POTENTIAL ARMONY…so don’t worry about anything..

And the the world i wrote is “ARMONIE POTENTIEL” but i changed the orden of the letters (not only reverse, but in certain chao) and found 2 words that when together become magic and get the conotations of what i wanted to express..

So when i read “ENAMORI PLENITTEO” it make me feel love “amor”,”enamorar”, and feeling filled by something great..plenitteo sounds like “plénitude”..and teo refer to gods and spirits, and then of course, the double “T” become the magic Pi number, part of the evergrowing loop .

I hope u’ll have a nice travel…

P E A C E

By Remed.

Diptic or 2 canvas of 100×146cm.
Oil chack, Spray, Acrylic, Lead pen.
2009.

This 2 pieces are made of spontaneity, i hadn’t made any finalised sketch for them. So i started roughly with spraypaint, and slowly composed the image, changing layers after layers, tools after tools….here are a few pictures of the evolution of the paintings.