The images and signs that are used have been sourced from collected material, the artist’s drawings or were made at the moment of painting. These works can be seen as an inquiry into the role of unknowing and framing in the cultivation of meaning; whereby painting functions as a didactic model edifying the experience of unknowing. These teachings are a practice of chasing unknowing, fundamented by not reading “The Cloud of Unknowing”.
“I CHARGE and beg you, with all the strength and power that love can bring to bear, that whoever you may be who possess this book (perhaps you own it, or are keeping it, carrying it, or borrowing it) you should, quite freely and of set purpose, neither read, write, or mention it to anyone, nor allow it to be read, written, or mentioned by anyone unless…”
The Cloud Of Unkowing. Translated by Clifton Wolters. London: Penguin, 1961, 43.
Vedran Kopljar decided to stop reading at this point for the sake of unknowing.