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Zero

Unique piece

Year: 2024

Series: Numbers

Technique: mixed-media drawing on Hahnemühle paper, 275 g/m²

Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm

Concept: In mathematics, zero indicates the absence of a quantity, but it is not synonymous with non-existence. It is the neutral point from which positive and negative values are distinguished and new directions open.

In the symbolic dimension, Zero is the whole of existence in potential: Life in its essential state, not yet determined into form, yet open to every possibility. From this nothingness—not absence, but a generative void—every story may be conceived, and every form may emerge.

To reach the zero point means returning to a condition preceding identifications, judgements and conditioned reactions. It does not mean erasing one’s personal history, but loosening its hold so that it no longer determines what we may become.

In the ART OF THE SPIRIT, Zero is a threshold of conscious receptivity. When the mind becomes still and individual will ceases to impose a direction, consciousness reopens itself to the original impulse of Life.

The zero point is therefore neither a conclusion nor an annihilation, but an inner resetting: the fertile opening in which possibility is renewed and a new beginning may manifest.

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