Sri Ramana Maharshi Ramanasramam Arunachala: Condensate Photographs by Horst Eschment

"Not the visible draws us, but the invisible that underlies everything. A gaze that seeks nothing, >In Sri Ramanasramam, silence is not absence, but presence. The sacred mountain Arunachala stands like an unmoving question in space: "Who am I?" Horst Eschment's photographic work "Condensate" follows this movement of self-inquiry. Through projection and re-photographing, distance emerges - yet it does not separate; it clarifies. Between sharpness and blur, it is not the motif that shifts, but the gaze. Not the visible is decisive, but the invisible that underlies everything. -------------------------------------------------------- The works refrain from capturing something. They do not explain. >They invite us to remain within perception - >Condensate means condensation. >In our rationally structured everyday life, images are often information. >Who is seeing? What is being seen? >Perhaps this is what can be sensed in the silence of the Ashram: A presence that requires no form. An Absolute that cannot be represented - >It is not the depiction of reality that draws us, but the invisible within it. -------------------------------------------------------- A gaze that seeks nothing, >Horst Eschment >