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OF PROCESS

The roots of inspiration are continuously changing.

When I listen to the music of Bach I am aware of the religious element in his music but his genius dominates this element and gives it a universal art value.

Today we establish our contemporary gods and godddesses [[goddesses]] in art, ephemeral, fragmented and mechanical.

What am I trying to bring out is the Need to Control our various roots of inspiration.

I find it difficult to accept that "realism" means reality in art.

I think that the reality of the artist is the way he relates himself both to his sources of inspiration and to the object he creates, and the way he controls them.

By approaching directly, physically--as is--the reality of the natural or the reality of the mechanical, or whatever is the root of inspiration from which our works spring, it seems to me that we do not reach the real reality in art.

Direct activities toward an art reality finally build a wall around me, separating me from this reality rather than helping me to "go through" it.

My way to this art reality is not the direct approach but, to use a figure from the tennis court, the return of the ball (to me the ball means the very root of inspiration), the hitting of the ball with a raquet. IN OTHER WORDS MEANING COMPLETE VISUAL TRANSFORMATION.