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At the edge of the world, contemplating eternity
Asiya Evgenyevna Konechenkova • Grafik, 21.09.2024, 50×65 cm
Beschreibung des Kunstwerks «At the edge of the world, contemplating eternity»
"At the Edge of the World, Reflecting on Eternity." Series: Lost Worlds, dry pastel, Fabriano Cromia 220 g/m 50x65cm cardboard, September 2024, full moon, Asiya Konechenkova, WizmArts
Once upon a time, when the world was much less explored and open than it is now, people believed in the edge of the world and could believe that there was nothing beyond a certain line. Void or eternity. ♾ Something that cannot be understood or comprehended. Something that could consume one small human life forever. The world was finite. Beyond it was the abyss.
The era of great geographical discoveries proved that Pythagoras' assumption and Aristotle's proofs were correct. Our planet has the shape of a sphere, and if we look from the philosopher's point of view, it is infinite. Yes, we can start the route from point A to point A. And it would seem to complete our journey by going around the ball, but by the time we return to the beginning, we will be so different in our worldview that the journey will need to start again. And so it goes over and over again. Like waves crashing against the solid. The beat of life is finite, but infinite in its principle. The wheel turns, man moves, the world changes, and he changes with it, ready, though not always, to start the route again and again, while the heart pumps blood through the veins, making the fire of our life burn.
The path of a thinking being is always new and therefore endless, we change with every step we take, and therefore, walking the same route again and again, we can find something new, if we are observant, and stop walking the same paths, if we are conscious. Our earthly path is formed to realize ourselves and the essence of this world.
I think that life that we see around us in animate and inanimate nature is there in all its manifestations, but only as long as there is an observer. That means that in our age of total enlightenment and, I would like to believe, enlightenment, we need to look more closely at nature and life that surrounds us, because it will allow us to realize that we are, and we exist not to subsist, suffer and destroy, but to go forward and find new in the familiar, unique in the ordinary, brilliant in the simple and alive inside our hearts. If each of us begins to feel this world, to accept and understand those who are near us, we will not have to return to this metaphorical precipice of existence, in which there may be no observer left. And without him, the precipice ... and emptiness. Only an abyss, not eternity.
Duck, maybe it's time for humanity to realize where the line is and take a step back from the edge?
...
Once upon a time, when the world was much less explored and open than it is now, people believed in the edge of the world and could believe that there was nothing beyond a certain line. Void or eternity. ♾ Something that cannot be understood or comprehended. Something that could consume one small human life forever. The world was finite. Beyond it was the abyss.
The era of great geographical discoveries proved that Pythagoras' assumption and Aristotle's proofs were correct. Our planet has the shape of a sphere, and if we look from the philosopher's point of view, it is infinite. Yes, we can start the route from point A to point A. And it would seem to complete our journey by going around the ball, but by the time we return to the beginning, we will be so different in our worldview that the journey will need to start again. And so it goes over and over again. Like waves crashing against the solid. The beat of life is finite, but infinite in its principle. The wheel turns, man moves, the world changes, and he changes with it, ready, though not always, to start the route again and again, while the heart pumps blood through the veins, making the fire of our life burn.
The path of a thinking being is always new and therefore endless, we change with every step we take, and therefore, walking the same route again and again, we can find something new, if we are observant, and stop walking the same paths, if we are conscious. Our earthly path is formed to realize ourselves and the essence of this world.
I think that life that we see around us in animate and inanimate nature is there in all its manifestations, but only as long as there is an observer. That means that in our age of total enlightenment and, I would like to believe, enlightenment, we need to look more closely at nature and life that surrounds us, because it will allow us to realize that we are, and we exist not to subsist, suffer and destroy, but to go forward and find new in the familiar, unique in the ordinary, brilliant in the simple and alive inside our hearts. If each of us begins to feel this world, to accept and understand those who are near us, we will not have to return to this metaphorical precipice of existence, in which there may be no observer left. And without him, the precipice ... and emptiness. Only an abyss, not eternity.
Duck, maybe it's time for humanity to realize where the line is and take a step back from the edge?
...
