The ontology of artistic research

 Art practice as research is not the representation of knowledge per se, it is the actual generation of knowledge where the artist is not a mere maker of art-ifacts, the artist becomes an alchemical vessel engaged in a feedback of reaction and response to an enquiry with the absolute, an oscillation between participating by making and observing, analyzing and reflecting.

The research process is pure absorption of context and "nutrients" while we try to identify the gap in our current understanding by digesting existing works to formulate for ourselves a question-research that functions as paradox and not a problem to be solved.

 In production we, as makers, become the embodiment of the them, embracing the paradox, the persistence of vision where life is created from static frames of death. If we are proposing a discursive to support and build the logic, we must use the paradox of using linear language to map non linear experience.

The artist must devoid him/herself of presence, being absent and with intimate gaze enter the ritual space of its own exhibition.

The work of art actually advances through failures and limits that allows for the transformation of the artist and maker, this is our aporiatic engine. Its nature is a structural limit of logic masked as a block manifesting into a failure of words to describe the visual and the inability to capture presence in time. The realization that I am not in control allows for the space that gives birth to the ultimate gold of the artifact, and so failure acts as the alchemical fire that burns away the lead of our ego and intentions.

The result of the descent is the works, the result of drawing our own map to our soul's journey creating a sorts of talisman and temple for future pilgrims of the arts. 

We begin as seekers, separated, and become the alchemist through our suffering and ultimate transformation, to arrive at the reflection of the mirror. The struggle of the aporia is the artwork, the works are merely the shadow casted by it. We finally realize that the creator, the creation and the observer are all one single event.