Thoughts & Insights

Recently, someone asked me why I write so much about all kinds of issues instead of telling more about my experiences concerning the MINDKISS project or my personal thoughts on OUBEYs images.

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Following the ideas of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in their joint preface of “2001 – A Space Odyssey”, one could see it like this: The truth will, in the end, be far more surprising than we can possibly imagine today.

Is it possible, that our universe is simply a grand cosmic symphony, composed of the vibration of these strings?

Clouds in the sky and ocean waves are just two examples of visual and observable dynamic complexity.

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Where does sound come from? What happens to us while listening to the sound of a symphony such as Tschaikowsky’s Pathétique? What changes in us after the sound waves have entered our ears, and our mind?

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Now the OUBEY book is part of the Sagmeister exhibition in the “Musée Arts Décoratifs” in Paris, where it reaches a larger public outside the Internet for the first time. The fact that this became possible is part of a long and wonderful story, for which we may even have a MINDKISS from OUBEY to thank in the end.

Can design turn the world upside down? Probably not. But a designer can show that the world is indeed on its head.

OUBEY called his computer-based “painting with light”, created between 1988 and 1993, “PhotonPainting”. For him it was less a technique than an idea, a philosophy: the idea of painting with light.