An early project for the Art-O-Mat.

(From Letter Four to Franz Kappus sent from Worpswede, Germany on July 16th, 1903)

I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir,  to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without even noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

-Rainier Maria Rilke

These paintings serve as physical metaphors for this passage.  Solving the puzzle is probably impossible (without bending the rules a bit) but in the attempt, something beautiful and interesting emerges. 

Process Paintings based on Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet”