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All works are in a Limted Edition of 03 Prints only
certain works are UNIQUE
Mostly works on paper
Archival Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag®
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artmaking as spiritual ritual
set you sights
swing your swing towards the optimism of the sun
set you sights
swing your swing towards the optimism of the sun
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Nico Krijno (b1981) is an artist deliberately nonsequitur in style, form, and aesthetic.
Working with video. staged photography, painting, and collage* in an experimental practice that investigates contemporary visual archetypes codes, symbols and patterns.
Exploring not only these methods of creation but the spaces in-between
Nico Krijno (b1981) is an artist deliberately nonsequitur in style, form, and aesthetic.
Working with video. staged photography, painting, and collage* in an experimental practice that investigates contemporary visual archetypes codes, symbols and patterns.
Exploring not only these methods of creation but the spaces in-between
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i have no answers
only questions questions about photography
questions about today,
its the 4th of March 2025, Paris
and im sitting on the floor typing on my notes app:
[Pay attention to fleeting thoughts]
artmaking as spiritual practice
in times of constant uncertainty, radical upheaval and transition (impermanence)
(a constant work in progress)
1.b
The trouble in the world is not there to defeat or to harm us,
but to awaken us to the unlived lives within us
the longings and the callings that our souls would have us follow
How do we make work about the ‘now’ ?
Where are we even now?
Have we perhaps over adapted to a world that cannot give us what we are looking for?
(toxic resilience)
The old world is dead, the new one is not here yet. The world you want to be in, isn’t here yet.
This place isn’t a place, It’s a moment—a moment where everything collides, where time is stretched, folded in on itself
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What is it that we need most in a time of radical uncertainty and upheaval?
What is being magnified by all the radical instability? Perhaps we have to rethink the idea of community* as society gets more divided and polarised by extreme ideologies
When most levels of nature and aspects of culture are simultaneously manifesting disruptive symptoms, we have a greater need for symbols that can remind us of the underlying unity and beauty, that could help us find ways to connect the moments we are living
no matter how broken they might seem
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i have no answers
only questions questions about photography
questions about today,
its the 4th of March 2025, Paris
and im sitting on the floor typing on my notes app:
[Pay attention to fleeting thoughts]
artmaking as spiritual practice
in times of constant uncertainty, radical upheaval and transition (impermanence)
(a constant work in progress)
1.b
The trouble in the world is not there to defeat or to harm us,
but to awaken us to the unlived lives within us
the longings and the callings that our souls would have us follow
How do we make work about the ‘now’ ?
Where are we even now?
Have we perhaps over adapted to a world that cannot give us what we are looking for?
(toxic resilience)
The old world is dead, the new one is not here yet. The world you want to be in, isn’t here yet.
This place isn’t a place, It’s a moment—a moment where everything collides, where time is stretched, folded in on itself
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What is it that we need most in a time of radical uncertainty and upheaval?
What is being magnified by all the radical instability? Perhaps we have to rethink the idea of community* as society gets more divided and polarised by extreme ideologies
When most levels of nature and aspects of culture are simultaneously manifesting disruptive symptoms, we have a greater need for symbols that can remind us of the underlying unity and beauty, that could help us find ways to connect the moments we are living
no matter how broken they might seem
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We don't need more time, but we need more of a connection with things that are timeless
What we are going through now has happened before
what we are looking for is perhaps already inside us![]()
timekeeping
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We don't need more time, but we need more of a connection with things that are timeless
What we are going through now has happened before
what we are looking for is perhaps already inside us
As humans we live and die in the context of the stories we tell ourselves about the world
and our place in it
Two great stories happen at the same time the great drama of the world and the unique stories trying to unfold from each individual soul
at this critical time on earth something essential from the story of the world is trying to be rediscovered
and something crucial in each life story is trying to be revealed
through myths of re:creation we can touch the timeless images and archetypes from which the living world first arose
and find inspiration and insights into collective transformation on earth
and our place in it
Two great stories happen at the same time the great drama of the world and the unique stories trying to unfold from each individual soul
at this critical time on earth something essential from the story of the world is trying to be rediscovered
and something crucial in each life story is trying to be revealed
through myths of re:creation we can touch the timeless images and archetypes from which the living world first arose
and find inspiration and insights into collective transformation on earth
timekeeping
The origins of timekeeping are sundials
(sundials are not effective after sundown)
So the original ‘keeping of time’ only happened at daylight
and at the end of each day - time would disappear the darkness would come and people would understand that eternity had come back, and so one of the things we have lost in the modern world is this vision, this view that connects us at the edge of our knowing with nature and with the world behind nature
the world behind the world (i dont want to use the word cosmos here)
(last impressions last)
And another thing we have lost is the connection to timelessness
In other words people are always running out of time
But it isn't more time that we need but its more timelessness
In order to feel the depth of creation that is always present and in order to get a new view of the world
Its not simply that we need a better world, but we need a better view of the world
So it's natural for humans as part of human nature to be stretched between the heavens and the earth below our feet
To be stretched between eternity and everything that is time bound
That's part of the inner tension of being a human being
Because we are suppose to become conscious of things that are beyond our normal grasp (transcend)
We are supposed to be in the course of our life in the growing of the life that's trying to unfold within each of us supposed to get greater insights
and intuitions about the things that are not obvious in the world (the field)
And when we lost that kind of ‘sense’ that humans are stretched between time and eternity, that we are children of the heaven
as well as born from the earth
when that got lost
along with it went the loss of understanding of the nature of the world
seen through the eyes of myth...
(sundials are not effective after sundown)
So the original ‘keeping of time’ only happened at daylight
and at the end of each day - time would disappear the darkness would come and people would understand that eternity had come back, and so one of the things we have lost in the modern world is this vision, this view that connects us at the edge of our knowing with nature and with the world behind nature
the world behind the world (i dont want to use the word cosmos here)
(last impressions last)
And another thing we have lost is the connection to timelessness
In other words people are always running out of time
But it isn't more time that we need but its more timelessness
In order to feel the depth of creation that is always present and in order to get a new view of the world
Its not simply that we need a better world, but we need a better view of the world
So it's natural for humans as part of human nature to be stretched between the heavens and the earth below our feet
To be stretched between eternity and everything that is time bound
That's part of the inner tension of being a human being
Because we are suppose to become conscious of things that are beyond our normal grasp (transcend)
We are supposed to be in the course of our life in the growing of the life that's trying to unfold within each of us supposed to get greater insights
and intuitions about the things that are not obvious in the world (the field)
And when we lost that kind of ‘sense’ that humans are stretched between time and eternity, that we are children of the heaven
as well as born from the earth
when that got lost
along with it went the loss of understanding of the nature of the world
seen through the eyes of myth...
