Contemplations

Contemplations

China ink / 24ct gold on silver gelatin prints | 2017 – ongoing

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To endure everything. To become nothing. To become everything.

Thomas Sing‘ s Contemplations are reflections about body and mind, image and text, experiences of the human and the sacred.

Discipline and obsession

The work as practice of the self: photographs, taken on film, processed in the darkroom, covered in handwritten texts in weeks long working sessions.

WORKING WITH GOLD- 'HOC EST QUOD CUPIO' (2019)

Born at the crossway of photography and illuminated manuscript, the Contemplations marry images and texts, the physical and the metaphysical, the sacred and the flesh in the pursuit of a higher experience. The analog photographs are covered in tiniest handwriting and feature mystical and poetic texts ranging between the 12th and the 20th century.

Each work is unique and unreproducible.

Thomas Sing Winters-Ende

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0037: Winters-Ende | 80 x 70 cm (framed) | 24ct gold and china ink on silver gelatin print | 2022 |

Thomas Sing Infinity China Ink on Silver Gelatine Print 2023

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0039: Infinity | 50 x 50 cm (framed) | China ink on silver gelatin print | 2023 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0034: In hitziger begerunge | 50 x 70 cm (framed) | photography, painting and writing | China ink, shellack 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0034: In hitziger begerunge | 70 x 50 cm (framed) | China ink, shellack 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing Mauvaises Penées

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0038: Mauvaises Pensées | 80 x 60 cm (framed) | 24ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2022 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0035: L'amour implicite | 60 x 80 cm (framed) | photography and writing | China ink on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0035: L’amour implicite | 80 x 60 cm (framed) | China ink on silver gelatin print | 2019 | SOLD

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0035: L'amour implicite | 60 x 80 cm (framed) | photography and writing | China ink on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0025: Ie ich tieffer sinke | 50 x 50 cm (framed) | China ink and 24ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019/2022

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0030: Hoc est quod cupio | 60 x 80 cm (framed) | photography, painting and writing | 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0030: Hoc est quod cupio | 80 x 60 cm (framed) | 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 | SOLD

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0019: Dic Maria quid vidisti | 50 x 50 cm (framed) | photography, collage, painting and writing | china ink on silver gelatin prints | 2018 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0019: Dioc Maria quid vidisti | 50 x 50 cm (framed) | china ink on silver gelatin prints, collage | 2018 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0032: In secreta et occulta iussione | 50 x 50 cm (framed) | photography, painting and writing | China ink and 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0032: In secreta et occulta iussione | 50 x 50 cm (framed) | China ink and 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 | SOLD

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0033: La dottrina delle lacrime | 50 x 70 cm (framed) | photography, painting and writing | China ink and 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0033: La dottrina delle lacrime | 70 x 50 cm (framed) | China ink and 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2019 | SOLD

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0018: Sublimierungs-Differential | 35 x 50 cm (framed) | photography, painting and writing | china ink on silver gelatin print | 2018 |

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 0018: Sublimierungs-Differential | 50 x 35 cm (framed) | china ink on silver gelatin print | 2018 | SOLD

Thomas Sing | Contémplation 004-5: Les Douceurs Continuelle | 50 x 100 cm (framed) | china ink and 24 ct gold on silver gelatin print | 2017-2020 |

In contemplation we can overcome our body, our mind, our dimension and reach an higher experience.

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This is a selection from the Contemplations series. If interested please contact me via mail or phone. I will be happy to share with you more detailed information.

China ink and/or 24ct gold on silver gelatine prints | text-based artworks
All pieces are unique, original works (edition 1/1). No reproductions.
All images are on highest quality paper (Ilford Hahnemühle Baryta) and made by Thomas Sing in his dark room following a strict archive sequence, ensuring gallery quality.
All works come framed in highest quality gallery frames.

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With text excerpts by: Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, Ann Bathurst, Hildegard von Bingen, Angela da Foligno, Veronica Giuliani, Margery Kempe, Laure, Madeleine Lebouc, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Dorothea von Montau (Dorota z Mątowów), Julian of Norwich, Elsbeth von Oye, Agnes von Prag (Anežka Česká), Maria Maddalena de‘ Pazzi, Caterina da Siena, Simone Weil et al.