Kon Markogiannis is an experimental photographer, collage artist, existential poet, philosophical essayist, independent researcher and spiritual seeker with an interest in gnostic themes such as death, mortality, the human condition, the exploration of the psyche and the evolution of consciousness.
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Mind Patterns (Work in Progress)
Thine own consciousness, shining, void, and inseparable from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth, nor death, and is the Immutable Boundless Light.
(Padmasambhava, The Tibetan
Book of the Dead)
Mind Patterns is a series of cameraless photographs/computer
constructions which deal with the artist’s inner need to transcend mundane
reality in search of the absolute. The work was inspired by Tibetan Buddhist
theories regarding “universal consciousness” and the art of avant-garde
pioneers such as Man Ray and László
Moholy-Nagy whose photographic experiments
(solarizations, photograms etc) challenged the established notion of photographic
"reality".
Manifestations
of the ineffable exist in our subconscious where billions of organic and inorganic,
human and pre-human images and experiences are stored in a kind of virtual hard
drive. With the help of computer simulation-manipulation I attempted to retract
primordial shapes and symbols, textures and patterns, spaces of darkness and
luminance from this collective depository and rendered them into digital post-photographic
photograms.
My intention with this experimental work was to suggest that everyday reality as we
normally perceive it is a kind of virtual reality: it is a product of our
limited awareness and an illusion imposed by our senses. According to Buddhist
teachings our minds are integral parts and exponents of a universal network of
energy (“universal mind”) which is eternal, indestructible and omnipresent. By
applying appropriate techniques and practices -such as meditation and artistic
creation- the individual has the potential to rise above trivial reality and
experience a radiant supra-reality and enlightened state of mind (“clear
light”).
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