Almost everyone is in Lock Down, at home - Eastern skies are blue and nobody in the alpine pists - nobody on the streets of the cities of Viken, Norway - nobody to be seen on the football fiields - no activity in the tourist industry -.all dental clinics closed - but there is light in the tunnel - which hopefully not is the train - return to normal Life is a possibility - says the pundits on the screens.
Four screens have I -
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the small one - always close to my body -
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the next one also portable - slightely bigger screen - the laptop PC I use in bed.
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Then comes the stationary PC - where the videos are made and art is managed -
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and the fourth screen - the large one for satellite television - Nature, Discovery, BBC and CNBC, live from Wall Street.
I´m always connected to the news machine - both on the level of friends and the level of globaal actions.
In addition to art - in combination with art - art videos - there are these four screens - bothering you when you want peace - boring you when you want action - but providing you with material enough to keep the depression away - news, happenings, what’s happening on the South front?- always something to think about - the migrant crisis, the war against covid-19 - gender neutrality - the battles on distant battlefields - and there is Sabaton - there is Death Metal - there are war drums - Wardruna - older war chants - there are World Music - anti war - and in between, the artist is trying to find his aristic inspiration - his inner comfort, the right mood for creation - the digital mood - the urge to express conciousness - and artisticly study it - as the cloth of the young king Philip IV in the oeuvre of Velasquez is saying something about the conciousness of the painter. The reflexions of light in the fabric of the textiles of the proud king - the Habsburg chieftain - the utmost powerhouse - finishing the most splended mausoleum on the planet, for himself and all his predesecessors - a master horseman - a royal force of real energy - inheriting the wealth of Ptosi - the biggest silver mine in the world - making Velasquez his painter, outsourced to pope Inocentus 10 in Rome - where his portrait of the Pope became famous, said to transmit the power of the mighty God himself.
In his craftmanship Velasquez was likened to the highest creative power in the universe and reached a mytical fame in his own time - able to formulate his conciousness in oil painting - eternalizing his slave Juan de Pareja, a Moore, in a sublime painting and then gives him free.
He raised to the uppermost echelon in the colonial Power of Spain, and thus the World - knighted one year before he died - reaching the class of noblemen and the summit of worldly power, which had been his aim through all of his Life - but he changed position with his Moore, who could go, as a free man, whilst he himself became a slave of ushury and colonial super power.
The saga of the painter of king Philip IV is a saga of colonial times - now its covid-19 times - but the Feng Shui is as important as ever - to find the art for the bubble of home, the cocoon, the nest, to tune the walls right - in competition with the four screens.
Salve
Tomas Brusell
