A special awareness
I have
my dreams, like opening a place for children in Benin, supported by friends, if
this is foreseen, I just give my best every day to go for that. My goal is to
be ready to become what life is asking me to do, to bring a little light, a
little joy for humans, children and nature. If life says I’m not ready for big
mountains, I will go for what I am calling for.
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Sibylle Schwarz is the opposite of what her
last name could make us think. In her art, and so in her life, black is just
one of the many possible colours we can live and it has no negative sense so
it’s one of the several nuances of existence. She lives the artistic experience
with no separation from life itself and she expresses her perception through
her drawings. She thinks everything is connected and her lines are like the
several ways she finds in her journey of discovering. From that experience she’s
creating her daily kingdom.
What’s art for you?
Art is
the way to live and see. To look at things, to be deeply touched, to feel the
love, to feel the pain, to be aware…the woman on the street in her colorful
dress, the way she touches the child, the smell of the air and the violet of
the dancing cloud, the green of the leaves after the rain, the little hand of a
baby, all is so beautiful and rich, our world is full of inspiring colors,
shapes, experiences ...walking with open eyes...all becomes art, the way you see
is art, the imagination, the personal constant interpretation, a smile is not
only a smile, it covers my heart and let me draw…life is full of invitations.
How would you describe the link between your
life and your art?
My life
is art. Art is my life. There is a way I try to put color on my daily simple
world, to feel like a queen or a king, creating my daily kingdom with a special
awareness, living fully. Being aware, that we are never alone, we are connected
anyway, through lines we not could even imagine, a big complexity of relations.
Like the song lines of an aborigine and his respect for an emu. We are a part
of the essence, DNA, spirit; an endless pattern of invisible truth. Lines are
mostly onelinedrawings, no beginning, no end…colors are intermixed. Small and
bigger shapes, like a prelude of human structures, a network, an own language,
innocent and aware of the universe. A word, an unspoken word becomes a part of
the existence. A touch, a smile, a kiss. Driven by my own artistic dynamic,
radical, but caring, all and always reflecting, reacting in lines and colors.
My work represents my life, my life represents my work, assimilating in
awareness and playfulness.
Of our five senses which one is your favourite
and why?
They are
all very important for me. But the fifth, if all disappears and I could not see
or could not hear anymore, it would be my fifth to keep the touch, to remember
all colors of love and life.
Why the human body has a main role in your
work?
Yes, I
adore the beauty of the human nature, lips, wrinkles around the eyes, the gesture
of a hand, the movement and power of a muscle, the eyelashes of a baby, the eyebrow of an old man lifting up
while thinking, the view into deep eyes, beyond, beyond. Beauty, longing,
desire, frustration, sadness, growth, wisdom, all becomes visible…if you work
on the field, your hands tells stories, yes there is unlimited to receive, by
watching us. Our body language which doesn’t need words. Dancing and
smiling…our bodies are virtuous instruments, ambassadors of beauty.
You say we are all part of an essence, what do
you mean?
We are a
part of something big, we cannot even imagine. All our DNA, our blood and our
breath is like one seed of a huge field of wheat. Each seed, each corn is total
unique, and a important part of this process of eternity, like one drop of the
rain, in a complexity of climate in constellation with other unknown systems of
foreign galaxies. Like a tear of joy or pain, the liquid of sweat of effort,
like the amitotic fluid, when we give birth, like the tidal amplitude of the
ocean, like our breath.
Do you believe in god? In that case, what’s
your concept of god?
There is
no doubt. Just learned so far that I accept the not knowing anything concrete,
that I stop thinking in this case in visuals. God has no coat, no face and he
is. Just knowing there is a plan I do not know. Just trust.
Do you think we’ll be someday able to
understand the complexity of existence?
Do you
imagine a jellyfish will understand one day the social network of a siamang in
the rainforest and could listen the content of his song? I do not even
understand the message of my physical body, to change circumstances to avoid
the pain I am going sometimes through.
Your onelinedrawings remind me some works of
Jean Cocteau. Why did you choose that kind of technique?
By accident.
I think, I just started, because I realized, if you start with a empty paper,
with the respect and the pressure doing something beautiful. Your brain is a
strong choreography, but a better one is your heart and your unconsciousness.
If you let your arm do, the it’s you drawing. The ego could disappear for a
moment and you receive a gift.
What do you think about loneliness?
If we
realize, that we could open our heart for the awareness that we connected, we
are all the same, nobody is less or more, we start not feeling this loneliness
anymore, less and less. We could feel alone with joy, celebrating our time,
listening to our inner song.
Could you explain me a dream?
Sibylle Schwarz | Daily Kingdom . A selection of works here
An interview by Juan Carlos Romero
Photo courtsey of Sibylle Schwarz
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