{"id":5578,"date":"2021-05-12T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bokoros.com\/the-bare-essentials\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:35:21","slug":"the-bare-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bokoros.com\/en\/the-bare-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"The bare essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4265″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1610907276367{border-bottom-width: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]My painting, an exercise in self-knowledge, first reflected upon my relationship with my origins and then upon history as we experience it. More recently, I ponder over the idea of measure when it comes to people\u2019s concerns. I reflect upon an austere prosperity, what is absolutely essential in our lives. On how we might raise ourselves to our full stature, freed from all excess.<\/p>\n

The title of the exhibition: \u201cThe bare essentials\u201d.<\/p>\n

On boards taken from mountain bridges, I paint the weary and beleaguered together with life\u2019s basic necessities: a little food, water to keep ourselves decent, a shelter and an open door.<\/p>\n

The narrowness and length of the works underlines the narrowness and length of the path we walk to the opposite shore. The trodden timber recalls the multitude of unknown people who have trodden over it. The painting on it, a carefully wrought sign of our passing, counters the life that, itself unconsumed, consumes us.<\/p>\n

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