I create my works because it is my natural way of being – just like it is the blackbird’s nature to sing – and also because it pleases me to do so. Being creative helps me not to forget that I’m alive and living this life. I prefer to be an active part of the creative process, to laser beam my awareness and create whilst interpreting and interpret whilst creating, to separating creation from interpretation like the Surrealists usually did. To bring it to a Mythological scale: I feel more linked to the active Shiva principle who destroys to create than to the Biblical Yahweh who created and then passively sat back to watch what he had created.

Although I created the works myself, they defy any explanation and they often baffle me. They go beyond emotion, beyond thinking, beyond instinct, beyond deep fears and beyond high hopes, beyond understanding, and beyond dreams. They can neither be reduced nor explained away by any belief system, including spirituality, religion, logic, objectivity and common-sense.

There is nothing that has to be achieved with Art, no goal to be reached, except to stay in contact with the Source of Inspiration. Art can be a path towards Aretè, meaning Excellence in all aspects of life. It can show that consciousness is multi-layered, multi-dimensional and that awareness can be directed and focused.
Inspiration is always there and is always available. It’s up to us to tune into it.

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~ Erik Heyninck