Dear collaborator or supporter
The core of my project
In my art-work I am trying to grasp and inner experiences and states of consciousness. I want to make them accessible on a new level to myself and to the world. Some of them have the character of transcendent experiences. It is an attempt to express it and turn it into a functional cultural artifact.
From Lived Experience to a Functional Artifact
The deepest authentic communicative expression on a given topic that I am capable of. Metaphorically, it is like lifting a weight. Each poem is such an attempt – I put into it the maximum of the given moment. The process of creation. I ask myself what is the essence of my project? What is my motivation? It is to give the best of myself in the present moment. Perhaps the act itself. Like when you go to lift your maximum weight in weightlifting. It does not matter how much it is. You have to concentrate, decide, and do it. For a long time I did not know exactly what I wanted. I thought I wanted to start training again like when I was young. Gradually I understood that I want to do it differently. In situation that corresponds to where I am right now. The project is also a response to dissatisfaction and frustration from about twenty-five years ago, when during psychotherapeutic training I tried to write a text about who I am. I wanted to speak the language of psychologists, but it was terrible.
When Language Fails: Poetry as an Act of Maximum Presence
What remained was a strong feeling that I have a duty and an obligation to say something essential, but I do not know how. I perceive that almost no one understands me. Sometimes not even myself. A poem, is an attempt to establish authentic contact with the one who takes part in this communication. I want to say more than I am able to articulate. Thehre is register a significant inner pressure, sometimes so strong that my primarily verbal communication is not enough. It is as if I wanted to scream or roar, but silence comes out. Someone perceives it and someone does not.
Toward Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Paradigm Shift
I believe that what I write has multiple communicative dimensions with scientific overlap. I need help from people who have the ability to register and perceive this. To help articulate it in new perspective – perhaps using numbers, formulas, diagrams, and sketches. Legitimate scientific discourse grounded in reality. The information and data are not, in the true sense of the word, mine. I should not even know them or speak them. I feel strong emotional stirring. The experiences I speak about have the potential to cause a paradigmatic shift. This is not only a rational or intellectual understanding, but a deap realization that things are different.
Correct map onto the correct territory
Orientation points that I point in my work. This is where I need help. My project is an attempt for deep interdisciplinary communication between me and whoever is on the other side. It can be a scientist, society, a company, or an ordinary person. It is an outstretched hand, set table, or like when you invite a beautiful woman. You do not know. But you do it. That is the core of my project.
Arthur Rana