Elena Dorfman. Valentine 4 from Still Lovers Series 2001. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, copyright Elena Dorfman
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” Leonardo da Vinci observed, affirming the profound understanding of nature of truth. The pure distillation of idea is its highest form, allowing it to be perceived and understood universally without being corrupted or contaminated by complications.
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But capturing the essence is far harder than it looks. It requires equal parts discernment and discipline to remove the contamination of irrational thought. In the best possible circumstance, this poses a fitting challenge to the mind, forcing the flabby ego to acknowledge its shortcomings and do the heavy lifting necessary to comprehend the parameters of reality for it must be said: we must conform to truth; it will never adapt to us.
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Such infinite exactitude takes years of mastery. It hardly comes as a surprise that the “simple” is maligned as something foolish and half-witted, dull and plain, or wholly undesirable – while complicated masquerades as cosmopolitan. Forget the fact that Byzantine thinking creates entanglements that keep people trapped in losing paradigms, that the labyrinth of logic thinking that follows a false premise results in dependency and weakness – merely consider how disempowering it is to be trapped by a mind that isn’t able to distinguish fact from fiction.
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