JESUS and Paintings on CONSCIOUSNESS

1978-2002, rich structures from dried remains of oil paints

Recycling Art

by Wis - Wieslaw Sadurski

Summer 1983 I created this Little Man with a Great Fullness above him. But only two years later, summer 1985,  I prepared 8 square canvasses for a new concept: Recycling.
Technically it looked so: canvas on the floor. I was partly covering it with thick white paint and placing these bits of colourful dried oils onto it.
5 images of consciousness were conceived. These paintings were totally different from what has been done by million of artists in oil before.

Everyday Consciousness
State of Sleep
1986 oil painting on canvas 75 x 75 cm

Consciousness
First Awakening
1986 oil painting on canvas 72,5 x 72,5 cm

Consciousness
Awakened
1986 oil painting on canvas 80 x 80 cm

With Lord Jesus Christ comes one short story.
At the age of twelve I revolted, refused to go to church. Turning thirteen, I had to live in a monastery, wow! Soon expelled.
Okay, later studied philosophy and went a long way to learn the movements of the universe. At thirty discovered Zen-teaching and fell in love with it. Started to paint, doing Za-zen and Yoga (most of the time anyhow). Now, reading the New Testament, Upanishads, studying Tibetan mysticism and modern physics. Becoming religious, so to speak.

Then I had a dream one night about lying on the wet earth, weeping in despair, on a cold and rainy morning. There was a little country road and some loud motorbikes passing by along with several Roman warriors on horseback. Seeing many time periods meeting simultaneously, I could only scream, cry, and wriggle with pain like a worm on muddy soil
- because there, far from here, they were crucifying my beloved brother, master and all my love
- and I could do nothing but scream with terror.

So the last image in the series is one of Jesus.
I was scratching and cleaning my palette thoroughly to get the last available "material".
When the painting dried and went up on the wall, I saw in the shape of the head different faces, and human silhouettes.
Those small particles of oil dance on the white background and give freedom for fantasy to begin.
Therefore the title:

White on white 1990
acrylic painting on canvas 45 x 45 cm