Ahsus Bedjo
Ahsus Bedjo
“Painting is a way of creating, and of drawing closer to the creator.”
Ahsus Bedjo
The butterfly, ancient symbol of the soul setting itself free, crosses a scarlet sky beneath a watching moon; a vision of what continues, beyond the threshold.
Here, the wheel turns on the roof of the world: what we call the wrong side may be, seen from elsewhere, only the right side unaware of itself.
A hand rises towards the storm, and what seemed unshakeable sinks soundlessly beneath the waters; only a leaf remains, alone, to keep its memory.
Beneath molten gold and trails of silver, eight legs gallop outside of time: Sleipnir carries his rider to where the worlds still answer one another.
Between Mother and Father, the Self becomes its own golden chrism above the landscape: butterflies, winged horses, springs and clearings — there where matter and spirit are one single territory.
Ahsus Bedjo
With thanks to Hervé Cristiani for the inspiration. The magic works from within. When we meet the one who sees.
The entire universe is full and empty at the same time. The experience. I find turquoise a light and soothing colour, in the midst of these considerations.
As in nature, everything tends towards balance: and it is in inner stillness that the path back to the Source opens. A being rises towards the light, which at once comes to meet it. Lost beings seek to draw it back down, into their own reality. A ray pierces the shadow and dispels it, opening the way for the one who longs to rise. In that recovered clarity, he meets once more the one who sees.
The atom and the stars: at the two far ends of the universe, the laws seem to contradict one another. Between the two realities stands a heart that binds them, where physics seeks an equation, Love has already found its transcendental song.
Ahsus BedjoI paint landscapes that exist at the edge of the visible — mountains that carry the prayers of those who climbed them, forests where the myths never truly left the roots of the trees.
Each canvas is born of a reading: sacred texts, folk legends, pilgrims' accounts. In them I look for what all traditions share — that ancient conviction that the earth itself is inhabited by something greater.
From my studio, I work in oil and acrylic, in slow layers, the way one lets a thought ripen.
Emotions on canvas — that is what I call it. To paint and to convey emotion through colour and form is wonderful.
All these themes are connected. Accounting, photography and writing complete my activities and my passions.
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