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Concerning Discernment
Looking is not seeing. Without vision, the gaze strays without establishing relationships or links between things, stripped of meaning by the system of objects and places. Such a gaze is a fragmented gaze, divided and cut off from the world.
Sculpture emerges and is structured from a vision which estab- lishes hypotheses, conjectures and assumptions with respect to the new and the unknown. Our representations are a form of prognosis and part of our unconscious projections.Without these projections we cannot recognise anything and, paradoxi- cally, they themselves are our chief hindrance to attaining a clarification.
Some intuitions and initial suppositions are subsequently discar- ded or confirmed by new information that broadens the knowl- edge we have of an object, a place, a situation or a person. But without projection there is no bond at all, and we must therefore also be capable of distancing ourselves from them and looking at them so that we can make out their shadow.
The processes of shaping sculpture are the place where the unpremeditated and automatic always follows an internal model. Einstein stated that the fact that a model built by the human mind in a situation of great introversion should coincide with external events is a miracle and should be taken as such. Planck, however, thought that we conceive a model which we then verify through experiments, after which we revise the initial model, so that there is a sort of dialectical friction between the experiment and the model and, as a result of this friction, we arrive at a final explanatory fact.The relationship between the unconscious and matter continues to be something indecipher- able, a place where discernment acts as a glimmer that bursts into our lives without the involvement of our effort and will.
Written in Granada, 4 June 1997.
First published in Fernando Sinaga, Doble Inverso, Diputación de Granada, Granada, 1998.
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