Origins

ORIGENESIS NOT INTERESTED IN FORMULATING A PROGRAM BUT RATHER IN firing shots from its own wake. Since we do not change with the seasons, we do not have to justify our chameleon skin with extended appeals. We are not interested in superficial mutations but rather in underlining the taking up of being. We want to situate ourselves near those forces of creation, all of strong birth, where the purity or impurity, the quality or disqualification of all art must be sought. Every work offered within the humanist type of culture is a creation in which man displays his tension, his fever, his most vigilant and valiant moments, or else it is, on the contrary, a banal manifestation of decorative simplicity. We are fundamentally interested in those moments of creation in which the germ is converted into a creature and the unknown is gradually possessed to the extent to which this is possible and to the extent to which it does not engender a wretched arrogance. [End Page 19]

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