Raymond Feleppa is an expressionist painter.His works reflect moments in time that can only be captured on canvas, or , an attempt to embody
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal return states that
all things in existence recur over and over again for all eternity. This is
to say that human history is a preset circle without progress, the same
events arising perpetually and doomed never to change or to improve.
Existence is thus weighty because it stands fixed in an infinite cycle.
This weightiness is “the heaviest of burdens” for “if every second of
our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as
Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross.”
The reverse of this concept is “the unbearable lightness of
being.” Assuming that eternal return were impossible, humankind would
experience an “absolute absence of burden,” and this would “[cause]
man to be lighter than air” in his utter lack of weighty meaning. In
other words, every event and individual throughout history would be a
totally unique phenomenon with no possibility of recurring.
Something which does not forever recur has its brief lifetime, and,
once it is complete, the universe goes on existing, utterly indifferent to
the completed phenomenon.
Except when it is truthfully held on canvas. |