Unique piece
Year: 2020
Technique: drawing, mixed media on paper
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm
Series: Light
Concept: Living Fulcrum #2 is the second of three preparatory drawings for the light installation LIVING FULCRUM, a three-metre-diameter site-specific work with an integrated light element, created for the Objective Art performance experiment Sensibile è la chiara luce… (Clear Light Becomes Perceptible…), held from 14 to 16 February 2020 at the Elisarion Cultural Centre and Museum in Minusio, Switzerland.
Inspired by Gurdjieff’s conception of Objective Art, the project investigated whether an inner state, consciously sustained by the artist throughout the creative process, could become imprinted in the work and subsequently perceived by the viewer. The final work required thirty-three hours of focused practice, preceded by two years of attention training.
The Living Fulcrum is the symbolic bud of existence: the primary nucleus that animates and sustains Life in every form. It is the point, or vortex, where an idea becomes form, a cell becomes a heartbeat and — in a metaphor drawn from quantum physics — a probability wave collapses into a particle.
It is not a static centre, but a propulsive, superabundant fulcrum in continuous expansion: the place where everything in-Forms itself and Life exists prior to opposites, always and only as Life.
During the experiment, the artist consciously directed her attention towards impressing a state of calm upon the work. Viewers were invited to temporarily suspend judgement, comparison and interpretation, allowing them to encounter clear light directly within the pulsating heart of becoming.