Blank Mind
by Ana Reyna
March -May 2007
by Ana Reyna
March -May 2007
I close my eyes
I breathe deeply
I relax my hands
I stretch my back
my forehead has transformed
into a screen
and the first thing I see
is black
black that is reabsorbed
forming silhouettes
that float over white
unique and uniform white
that becomes background
permanently
I try to chase away silhouettes
the goal is to have
a blank mind
but they don’t leave, they get attached
so then I stare at them
they are enchanting
unavoidably,
the amusement begins
I move them, I flip them,
I pose them and dispose of them
Suddenly, I open my eyes:
I have: a blank mind
CLOSING EYES
The name of this exhibit is enticing. Anita Reyna attempts to enter one of our most pagan and recurring utopias: to think about nothing, to be suddenly suspended, floating amid the chaos. A blank mind is unconsciousness and relief at the same time. It is the wish that, at any given moment, you can spare yourself your own reality, you can unplug from your life for an instant. Immediate escape.
But the minute she attempts it a new order arises. When Anita Reyna closes her eyes, everything rebuilds itself -with a new shape- under her eyelids. The group of forms reinvents, attempts repetition, combines silhouettes and materials, tests a different embossing, changes posture and dimensions, playing… Nothingness is transformed by the artist’s restlessness into a new form of nature. Everything is being constantly tested. Any serial structure can be interfered with. Any reiteration can be sabotaged. It’s the interruption principle, it’s the work of art as an unexpected event.
The blank mind never rests. The blank mind produces beauty.
Alberto Barrera Tyszka
