Deçan
The light of being
Sometimes it appears as a bleeding white wound suggestive of a recent battle, sometimes a scar, a trace of an ordeal almost forgotten; in Deçan’s work, the line not only signals light, profusion, and even excess, it symbolizes an embodied point at the heart of our being, denoting not only limits, but beginnings. It is towards this point, both beginning and limit, this excess towards which the painter continuously strives; it is towards this point that the artist’s spiritual experience (his meditative painting practice) comes together.
