Homage the Code

"When a society is rich, its people don't need to work with their hands; they can devote themselves to activities of the spirit. We have more and more universities and more and more students. If students are going to earn degrees, they've got to come up with dissertation topics. And since dissertations can be written about everything under the sun, the number of topics is infinite. Sheets of paper covered with words pile up in archives sadder than cemeteries, because no one ever visits them, not even on All Souls' Day. Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity."
-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Throughout the years spent at University I have found myself getting away with the phrase of “creative crisis” whenever I would get stuck during the process of creating. In October when my seventh semester begun I was obliged to start thinking about the topic of my dissertation. Being several steps ahead of myself helped me in a great manner.

Society that I have been a part of ever since I can remember, is anything but rich. Leaving financial aspect aside, we as a society are poor of culture, visions, ideas, hope and strength to see a brighter tomorrow even more to try to create it.
As a 21-year-old I have struggled down the way during the years at uni and felt hopeless regarding the path my life was heading to, all up until the moment I entered into the Universe. Precisely one year ago, on 22nd of December 2015 I have taken onto my spiritual learning.

It took me some time to realise that “creative crisis” as we perceive it does not exist in the essence of any law of higher cosmos intelligence. The moment my mind was free of any kind of pointless thinking, worries, projections all thanks to the journey I had begun some time earlier, I saw it clearly in front of my eyes. It was six geometrical shapes, six colours and the most magnificent relationship between them and the alphabet that we are using on daily basis.

Homage the Code is a new age alphabet that is applicable to any phonetic language. Inspiration was drown from teachings of Bauhaus master Wassily Kandinsky regarding colour theories and form, as well as from the composition of characters in Braille…

The relationship of all above mentioned is going to be explained in my dissertation, in a form a book which will include works made out of Homage the Code that vary from paintings, installations, frames of animation, street art, commercial usage, etc.

Taking all of this into account, and most importantly the fact that spiritual learning has enriched my creative life this much so far, I have to argue Kundera’s statement in a way that only those who invest into their spirit are capable of working efficiently with their hands regardless the “madness of quantity” due to the raw feeling of satisfaction that comes out of it.