Paintings for the Future/Spirituality and Identity
Imagery, Identity and Culture
April 28, 2019
The Hilma Af Klint exhibition was beautiful. Also, it was my first time visiting the Guggenheim Museum and the architecture was amazing and it complemented her pieces very well. The amount of artwork that Hilma Af Klint made was extremely overwhelming; her designs were vibrating throughout the museum. The colors were so vibrant and everything felt incredibly kinetic and emotional. What was so amazing was how her works varied and how they can go from something traditional like her work from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts to something so abstract like "+x, Chapter 34". As well as work that varied from such large scales to things as tiny as her notes. The fact that she was doing all of this in the early 1900s is insane to me. She was so ahead of her time and you can definitely see how new theories, science, spiritualism and philosophies excited and inspired her. There were pieces that had to do with relationships, growth, time, evolution, and just key concepts that relate to identity and universal understanding. This is something I can definitely relate to. I personally love learning more about religion and trying to understand how and why I am alive and how the universe works. The topic is so important to me and it's definitely not something I'm going to stop learning about. I try to let Spiritualism play a key role in my life, prayer, my hijab, the people that I've connected and interacted with have changed my way of how I approach many things in my life. I still struggle trying to implement everything, but I'm trying and striving to build up my spirituality. I think people's belief systems really affect the way they are or even how societies and cultures work, some in a good and some in a bad way, obviously it's subjective to every individual. But I find it very interesting learning about how many different people try to explain one concept. It was also mentioned that she would participate in seances, which shows the level of devotion to including that spiritualism to her work. I've only involved spiritualism in two of my projects, one of them being the Self Portrait for Imagery, Identity, and Culture. I definitely want to include it more in future works and projects, but I want to be more knowledgeable about it first. I want to make sure I can clearly articulate beliefs before I represent them in more projects. Because it's something that is important to me and it's something that I think is very delicate, I never want to relay a message that misrepresents it's meanings. Something that I loved about Hilma Af Klint was that she showed her process of thinking and how her thoughts evolved. I was like we were taking a trip through her brain. I loved the variety of concepts and her different was of interpreting things. They're all visualizations of questions that evolve in her mind and answers she tries to find. You know, her and I might or might not have the same beliefs, but I respect her diligence to making a massive abundance of art and not shying away from exploring ways to understand our place on Earth. No one can disregard how visually and conceptually intense everything was and the fact that she was thinking about this during a time where you would be considered completely insane for created the works that she did. I loved visiting this exhibit and it was a beautiful experience.
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