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10 -Win Labuda “Time Scale 4“,
woodcut, 1998
11 -Win Labuda “Time Scale 8“,
woodcut, 1998
12 -Win Labuda “Terbel“,
pigment print, 2005
J.J. Gordon [15] (*1920). By that we understand a process to discover
connections between two seemingly separate elements: We take things
apart and put them back together to gain new insights into nature.
Another approach to synectic thought is making the familiar seem
foreign, in order to become acquainted with the unknown. The work of
art “Terbel“ in the series “The Surface“ is representative for this way of
thinking. The viewer may attempt, based on “Terbel“ to isolate the
individual elements of the representation and search for different
connections among them. What familiar object here has already been
alienated?
The technical-scientific work
In the following I will now go into your technical-scientific life work: Sir
Karl Raimund Popper [16] (1902-1994) founded critical rationalism with
his works on cognition theory and scientific theory. Popper postulated
his basic idea on scientific theory in the work “Logic of Research“. The
basic principle of his approach is: With formal logic we cannot derive a
general law from individual cases (induction problem), but rather we can
only refute general statements.
What does being mean?
What does knowledge mean?
What does time mean?
I would like to go only briefly into the essence of time, into time as prere-
quisite of knowledge. The history of man and of the world takes place in
time. In this moment we know the past in the form of facts and the future
in the form of possibilities – in complete agreement with the statements
of quantum mechanics, but in opposition to the philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein [13] (1889-1951). In “Tractatus logico – philosophicus“ he
writes: “The world is everything that the case is.“…While I say this, the
“now” passes away unremittingly.
When one creates structures with mathematics, this creation is an action
and thus a process in time. Thus, time is the basis of mathematics. The
same considerations are also true for creating a work of art. Kant inter-
prets the intuition of counting as intuition of the time structure [14].
Future is here the possibility of counting further. Precisely Kant’s call to
count is clear in the artistic series “Time“. Please compare here the
different time scale pictures.
To conclude my review of your artistic work I would like to go into the
series “The Surface“: I can only speculate about the motivations for this
work. I see in them parallels to synectic thought in the sense of William
