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Christin Bolewski
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
mist , and one finds oneself in a world of white light .
Obviously metaphor plays a huge roll in Eastern art and philosophy and hence also my work deals with these metaphors and re-adapts them to reflect our contemporary relationship to nature . As I said before I often make reference to philosophy or to literature in my work . In his book ‘ The detour via China ’, the French philosopher Francois Jullien attempts to create a new approach to Western culture : A ‘ local change of thinking ’, a process of distancing from Western thinking as an effective strategy where Eastern philosophy functions as an
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