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I initiated this series of drawings after reading Leibniz’s ‘Monadology.<\/p>\n

I look at a dog and cannot help but see the reflection of myself in its eyes. I wonder what this being looking at me sees. I imagine what it thinks and how it thinks. And if its thinking is more complete, less fragmented and simpler than mine.<\/p>\n

Could an affective logic form its reason? What does it see in me and the world that the ‘I,’ this supposedly undivided and illusorily autonomous unity, is unaware of?<\/p>\n

I seek, in a simple way, and with prosaic means (pencil, paper, graphite, wax), to capture some mystery of existence. I try to fix in the drawing this unknown and other doubts.<\/p>\n

The dog struggles with itself or others, only to capture an essence – a Monad – that always eludes it.<\/p>\n

In my drawings, it tries to assimilate that which also defines it: the Other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A series of drawings based on Leibniz’s ‘Monadology.’ The dogs struggle with themselves or with others, to capture an essence – a Monad – that always eludes them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17700,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[29],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17701"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/producersart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}