Rainer Fest

Rainer Fest

Keep on gazing

Unworked stones are beautiful. Just as nature, and everything that originates from within itself, that can recognise and look within itself, is beautiful. Why should I destroy something through large-scale sculptural interventions? I prefer to build up a contrast through minimal changes, to place worked and unworked matter in opposition to each another, thereby to point even more emphatically to the original state and create a new kind of unity. And besides: Is there not beauty in everything we “make eyes at”, everything we can regard with a “loving gaze”? Doesn’t our loving gaze create beauty in everything we look at? Perhaps this is the higher form of art: To beautify the world through the love in our gaze.………….keep on gazing!
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