The dot is intended as a point of meditation.
Focusing the mind on a small white dot titled,
"Black Dot," is a contradiction and thus a means to escape the strictures
of western thinking and enter an inverted universe into true reality where
everything comes from and goes in.
While black is traditionally the color (or lack of color) associated with death and mourning in western cultures,
white is traditionally the color (or lack of color) associated with death and mourning in eastern cultures.
This inversion of the cultural values associated with black and white, is reflected in the color inversion of the painting's title.
The painting was clearly influenced by the reductivist and minimalist art movements,
however where the minimalists sought to escape from iconography, and to reject
"the spiritual in art," in favor of formalist issues, Vesna Lazarin has here
inverted that purpose and made her minimalist dot the pathway to an internal spiritual
realm arrived at through meditation.
"Black Dot" was on exhibition in the following shows:
Black & White, at
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
February 18 - March 12, 2006.
The Areality Show, at
Viridian Artists, NYC,
September 3 - 23, 2006.
"Objects of Desire", benefit auction for ATOA, at Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea, NY, November 13, 2006.
Most recently the postcard version was in a mailart show, "The Whitney Micro Counterweight," at H215 Gallery, NYC, March 12 - 13, 2010.
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