1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:56,515 --> 00:01:01,100 In this moment, I'm aware, 4 00:01:01,186 --> 00:01:05,020 living as I do in this world, 5 00:01:05,107 --> 00:01:10,067 that I am an atom in the universe, 6 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:14,438 possessing infinite possibilities of development... 7 00:01:17,703 --> 00:01:22,197 And I want to explore these possibilities. 8 00:01:28,171 --> 00:01:30,378 That's wonderful. I didn't know that. 9 00:01:30,465 --> 00:01:34,128 That's the real discovery of modern physics, 10 00:01:34,219 --> 00:01:37,256 which she puts into words: 11 00:01:37,347 --> 00:01:39,508 We all believe 12 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,683 that the universe consists of atoms 13 00:01:42,769 --> 00:01:46,682 and that these atoms determine the universe. 14 00:01:46,773 --> 00:01:49,059 But it's the other way around. 15 00:01:53,864 --> 00:01:57,322 And when she says she feels like an atom in the universe, 16 00:01:57,409 --> 00:01:59,400 she's also saying 17 00:01:59,494 --> 00:02:02,361 that she's building the universe from her inner self 18 00:02:02,456 --> 00:02:05,573 while also receiving the signals she needs from the universe 19 00:02:05,667 --> 00:02:11,287 to create new forms which she shows us as atoms: Wonderful! 20 00:02:38,033 --> 00:02:43,323 A thought crystallizes the universe 21 00:02:43,413 --> 00:02:45,995 into geometrical figures. 22 00:03:12,442 --> 00:03:16,105 You must learn to ignore your fear, 23 00:03:19,825 --> 00:03:23,784 for without the will to believe in yourself, 24 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:26,077 nothing good will happen. 25 00:04:21,011 --> 00:04:23,844 We are not here forever. 26 00:04:25,724 --> 00:04:29,888 So it's not at all astonishing that someone once wondered about 27 00:04:29,978 --> 00:04:32,936 what it means to be in the world 28 00:04:33,023 --> 00:04:36,186 and how everything fits together... 29 00:04:39,112 --> 00:04:42,479 And came up with a huge answer. 30 00:04:53,335 --> 00:04:54,916 The strange thing is, 31 00:04:55,003 --> 00:04:59,918 I only found out about it more than 100 years later. 32 00:05:02,427 --> 00:05:07,467 Hmph. Art history has to be rewritten. 33 00:05:11,228 --> 00:05:15,847 Three great abstract artists died in 1944: 34 00:05:15,941 --> 00:05:18,182 Wassily kandinsky, 35 00:05:18,318 --> 00:05:19,979 piet mondrian, 36 00:05:20,070 --> 00:05:23,813 and hilma af klint. 37 00:05:27,536 --> 00:05:29,868 Now we have a real scandal. 38 00:05:29,955 --> 00:05:35,075 Suddenly, more than 50 years after history was written, 39 00:05:35,168 --> 00:05:37,705 completely out of the blue, 40 00:05:37,796 --> 00:05:42,540 at least for the general public, 41 00:05:42,634 --> 00:05:44,249 we discover this woman 42 00:05:44,386 --> 00:05:47,128 who painted abstract works before kandinsky, 43 00:05:47,222 --> 00:05:50,055 creating this huge oeuvre, fully independently, 44 00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:53,599 and by a kind of miracle it's all stayed together. 45 00:05:53,687 --> 00:05:58,647 It's like finding a time capsule in Sweden. 46 00:05:58,733 --> 00:06:00,733 And now we have to ask: How should we integrate it? 47 00:06:01,236 --> 00:06:03,192 I had never heard of her before. 48 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:06,443 And I have been studying art at university, so... 49 00:06:06,533 --> 00:06:09,115 Art history is a man's suit. 50 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:10,317 Imagine a man's suit. 51 00:06:10,453 --> 00:06:12,489 So the fiber is man. 52 00:06:12,622 --> 00:06:15,364 So all these women have been always 53 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:17,619 acted as decoration. 54 00:06:19,421 --> 00:06:21,628 Dear Mr. neumann, 55 00:06:21,715 --> 00:06:23,626 all that is missing, is the photograph 56 00:06:23,717 --> 00:06:26,129 of the "first abstract painting,” 57 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:28,835 which no doubt is standing rolled up somewhere. 58 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:31,342 Since it's neither numbered nor signed, 59 00:06:31,433 --> 00:06:34,049 I would like photographic proof 60 00:06:34,144 --> 00:06:39,480 that the picture was painted by me, in the year 1911. 61 00:06:39,566 --> 00:06:43,684 It is indeed the very first abstract picture in the world, 62 00:06:43,778 --> 00:06:47,566 for not a single painter was doing abstract work at that time. 63 00:06:47,657 --> 00:06:51,320 It is therefore an "historic painting". 64 00:06:51,411 --> 00:06:52,992 Yours, kandinsky. 65 00:06:57,751 --> 00:07:01,335 So, in order to tell the history of abstraction now, 66 00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:02,877 you have to rewrite it. 67 00:07:02,964 --> 00:07:04,545 Because, basically, 68 00:07:04,633 --> 00:07:06,611 all the people who said, "it happened in this year," 69 00:07:06,635 --> 00:07:09,502 well, no, it didn't, it happened in 190... 70 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:50,254 What we know is that she did exhibit her early, naturalistic works. 71 00:07:52,138 --> 00:07:55,346 But never in her lifetime 72 00:07:55,433 --> 00:07:57,924 did she put any of her abstract work on show. 73 00:08:00,689 --> 00:08:05,023 Hilma af klint's project was something much grander 74 00:08:05,151 --> 00:08:07,483 than what we today call "art." 75 00:08:07,570 --> 00:08:10,528 It was all about seeing the world we live in 76 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:13,698 in a larger context, 77 00:08:13,785 --> 00:08:15,992 to understand who we really are 78 00:08:16,079 --> 00:08:18,445 in a cosmic perspective. 79 00:08:45,025 --> 00:08:47,357 So... 80 00:08:47,444 --> 00:08:50,607 Let's rewrite art history. 81 00:08:56,661 --> 00:08:59,448 Well, in science, 82 00:08:59,539 --> 00:09:01,996 a citation can always be overturned, 83 00:09:02,083 --> 00:09:03,664 but in art history, 84 00:09:03,752 --> 00:09:05,354 it seems like citations cannot be overturned. 85 00:09:05,378 --> 00:09:07,494 An "historic painting.” 86 00:09:07,797 --> 00:09:10,334 So, when you write art history, 87 00:09:10,425 --> 00:09:13,462 you cite was was written before, 88 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:16,636 and you can add, but you can never overturn. 89 00:09:18,224 --> 00:09:23,594 There was this exhibition at moma entitled "inventing abstraction" 90 00:09:23,688 --> 00:09:29,228 and not one word was said or written about hilma af klint. 91 00:09:29,319 --> 00:09:35,610 And this attests to a hostility that speaks volumes. 92 00:09:36,076 --> 00:09:37,987 In answer to my inquiry, 93 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:40,660 the museum of modern art in New York, 94 00:09:40,747 --> 00:09:44,831 the so-called Vatican of art history, replied, 95 00:09:44,918 --> 00:09:47,250 they weren't so sure whether hilma af klint's art 96 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:50,620 actually worked like abstract art. 97 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:54,840 After all, 98 00:09:54,928 --> 00:09:57,294 she hadn't exhibited in her lifetime, 99 00:09:57,388 --> 00:10:00,095 so how could one tell? 100 00:10:00,183 --> 00:10:02,299 So it makes it almost impossible 101 00:10:02,393 --> 00:10:06,386 to insert hilma into... Reinsert anybody, 102 00:10:06,481 --> 00:10:10,941 but especially somebody who would disturb the history 103 00:10:11,027 --> 00:10:12,983 so much as hilma. 104 00:10:45,603 --> 00:10:48,891 But it might be because being so early, 105 00:10:48,982 --> 00:10:53,521 hilma af klint would cause such an upheaval in art history, 106 00:10:53,611 --> 00:10:57,024 that some would say: It's better to leave her outside. 107 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:27,351 I want to acquire real insights about our existence on earth 108 00:11:27,478 --> 00:11:32,438 in relation to the center of the universe. 109 00:11:44,996 --> 00:11:48,159 She was a delicate person 110 00:11:48,249 --> 00:11:54,415 with beautiful blue eyes that looked right through one. 111 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:58,790 And she was what, in olden days, was called "charming" in a shy way. 112 00:11:58,885 --> 00:12:02,298 It broke out when one met her. 113 00:12:07,602 --> 00:12:10,765 I admired her enormously, 114 00:12:10,855 --> 00:12:14,723 and I saw what she had accomplished. 115 00:12:14,817 --> 00:12:20,483 How she managed to do all of this on her own 116 00:12:20,615 --> 00:12:22,947 remains a mystery to us. 117 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:54,889 All the works that may only be opened 20 years after my death 118 00:12:55,024 --> 00:12:58,733 are marked with the above sign. 119 00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:14,662 It was all packed up after she died. 120 00:13:14,752 --> 00:13:19,963 Her nephew inherited it all and wasn't too happy about that. 121 00:13:20,091 --> 00:13:25,336 So it turned out that Erik had to look after it. 122 00:13:25,430 --> 00:13:29,298 Which was quite touching, 123 00:13:29,434 --> 00:13:31,891 but came as a shock to us, 124 00:13:31,978 --> 00:13:34,344 because it was a great responsibility 125 00:13:34,439 --> 00:13:37,806 and we were by no means prepared. 126 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:40,649 1,500 paintings 127 00:13:40,737 --> 00:13:44,321 and books with over 26,000 pages. 128 00:13:44,407 --> 00:13:45,772 What should one do? 129 00:13:45,867 --> 00:13:48,984 And nobody understood what this is. 130 00:14:06,387 --> 00:14:12,132 So, you can imagine these crates lying here, 131 00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:15,852 and were there for 20 years. 132 00:14:15,938 --> 00:14:20,147 I mean, it gets very hot in the summer, 133 00:14:20,234 --> 00:14:23,271 and then in the winter, we have -15, 134 00:14:23,363 --> 00:14:26,571 and in the summer, it could be +40 here. 135 00:14:26,657 --> 00:14:29,524 And that they survived, it's just amazing, 136 00:14:29,619 --> 00:14:32,076 it's a miracle. 137 00:15:32,056 --> 00:15:34,468 Okay. 138 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,263 So. 139 00:15:38,354 --> 00:15:42,563 So, this is Sweden sea atlas, 140 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:46,643 svensk sea atlas. 141 00:15:46,737 --> 00:15:48,853 As a naval family, 142 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:52,532 we're very famous for the charting, 143 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,233 the naval charting. 144 00:15:54,370 --> 00:15:56,076 We have seven generations, 145 00:15:56,164 --> 00:15:59,247 father, son as nhaval officers. 146 00:16:00,835 --> 00:16:03,042 What might it be like for a girl to grow up 147 00:16:03,129 --> 00:16:08,123 in a family of naval officers? 148 00:16:08,217 --> 00:16:10,253 Hilma was like the rat 149 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:13,427 that the cat has brought into the house. 150 00:16:13,514 --> 00:16:16,472 She was a female, 151 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:19,972 she was well-educated, 152 00:16:20,062 --> 00:16:22,474 she had a mind of her own, 153 00:16:22,607 --> 00:16:26,350 and she painted like nobody else. 154 00:16:26,444 --> 00:16:29,607 And she was controversial. 155 00:16:31,157 --> 00:16:33,864 Soin 1862, hilma af klint was born 156 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,484 into an aristocratic family 157 00:16:36,579 --> 00:16:38,490 and lived for the first ten years of her life 158 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:41,197 in karlberg castle, 159 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:44,747 a naval cadet school hear Stockholm. 160 00:16:47,757 --> 00:16:49,668 There, her father, Victor af klint, 161 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:53,547 taught not only the young sea cadets... 162 00:16:53,638 --> 00:16:57,256 So, besides school, she was taught at home 163 00:16:57,350 --> 00:17:01,684 mathematics and astronomy and navigation, and so on. 164 00:17:01,771 --> 00:17:03,477 He also encouraged and supported 165 00:17:03,564 --> 00:17:06,647 his daughter's talents. 166 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:08,577 Where did we have her? 167 00:18:08,671 --> 00:18:11,083 Yeah. 168 00:18:11,173 --> 00:18:15,633 Number 805, hilma af klint, of course. 169 00:18:18,431 --> 00:18:22,640 And it says what her father's occupation was 170 00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:24,137 and when she was born, 171 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:26,389 and she registered the first time 172 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,688 the fourth of September, 1882. 173 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:34,480 She was, I would say, 174 00:18:34,572 --> 00:18:37,234 the second generation of women at the academy 175 00:18:37,325 --> 00:18:39,532 who studied, so to say, 176 00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:42,361 and received a full education. 177 00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:06,555 The models were male, 178 00:19:06,646 --> 00:19:10,184 they had some kind of... Some very small trousers 179 00:19:10,274 --> 00:19:13,812 or some kind of cloth, 180 00:19:13,903 --> 00:19:19,318 like, draped over the essential part. 181 00:19:23,412 --> 00:19:26,245 Clearly, hilma af klint broke the rules, 182 00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:29,039 which only applied to women. 183 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:31,250 Obviously, outside the academy, 184 00:19:31,337 --> 00:19:34,579 there were other possibilities. 185 00:19:39,762 --> 00:19:44,722 What I find fascinating about her naturalistic early works, 186 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:48,763 is that she never tried to make people more beautiful than they are. 187 00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:52,597 In accordance with whatever ideal there might have been. 188 00:19:57,613 --> 00:20:00,571 This is someone who not only has an eye, 189 00:20:00,658 --> 00:20:05,903 but is also trying to understand the world in visual terms. 190 00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:35,394 Well, she had a couple of rewards, really, in money. 191 00:20:35,484 --> 00:20:41,650 She got 50 Swedish kronor in '84 for drawing an anatomy, 192 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:45,108 and '88, her last term here, 193 00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:49,286 she got 100 Swedish kronor for painting a model, 194 00:20:49,373 --> 00:20:52,365 and 100 Swedish kronor is a lot of money 195 00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:54,246 at that time. 196 00:20:54,336 --> 00:20:56,622 One reason why they were accepted at the art academy 197 00:20:56,756 --> 00:21:03,924 was because there were lots of aristocratic women 198 00:21:04,013 --> 00:21:07,676 not being married at that time. 199 00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:09,723 When they were not married, 200 00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:13,519 their older brother had to support them. 201 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:15,437 They found out 202 00:21:15,566 --> 00:21:18,148 that giving the women a good training at the academy 203 00:21:18,235 --> 00:21:20,977 would give them a job and an income 204 00:21:21,071 --> 00:21:24,234 so they could support themselves. 205 00:21:29,163 --> 00:21:33,122 There are several of these lying here. 206 00:21:41,091 --> 00:21:42,251 And it works. 207 00:21:42,343 --> 00:21:44,083 Hilma af klint becomes 208 00:21:44,178 --> 00:21:47,295 a successful portrait and landscape painter. 209 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,554 She also earns her own money 210 00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,728 as an illustrator, 211 00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:59,683 and even with drawings for a veterinary institute. 212 00:22:04,281 --> 00:22:06,738 But wasn't there more to come, 213 00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:08,612 much more? 214 00:22:11,413 --> 00:22:13,153 Although she left piles of books 215 00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:15,490 with notes about her work, 216 00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:18,121 there's almost nothing personal to be found, 217 00:22:18,212 --> 00:22:21,420 not even a postcard. 218 00:22:21,507 --> 00:22:24,670 Have you read them all? =-no. 219 00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:32,431 That's a beautiful one, look at that. 220 00:22:36,772 --> 00:22:38,353 But I did find some hints 221 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,274 that her life must have been enriched in many ways. 222 00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:07,633 Notes from the Italian journey 223 00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:27,812 Leonardo da Vinci. 224 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:35,453 Bellini Madonna, beautiful 225 00:23:41,837 --> 00:23:46,922 She had the baltic exhibition in 1914 in malmo. 226 00:23:47,009 --> 00:23:48,715 She showed her academic paintings 227 00:23:48,844 --> 00:23:52,132 together with, how do you say, 228 00:23:52,222 --> 00:23:56,056 the union of the Swedish women painters. 229 00:23:58,228 --> 00:24:00,014 By the way, 230 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,221 another artist also presented a landscape painting 231 00:24:02,358 --> 00:24:04,599 at the baltic exhibition: 232 00:24:04,693 --> 00:24:06,934 Wassily kandinsky. 233 00:24:07,029 --> 00:24:09,987 Should hilma and wassily happen to have met there, 234 00:24:10,074 --> 00:24:12,235 they could have told one another 235 00:24:12,326 --> 00:24:14,442 that their work was already moving 236 00:24:14,536 --> 00:24:17,994 in other directions. 237 00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:45,348 In order to create work that is strong and powerful, 238 00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:51,358 I have been forced to renounce the dearest wish of my youth: 239 00:24:53,659 --> 00:24:58,619 To be able to reproduce outer form and color. 240 00:26:06,356 --> 00:26:11,441 Those granted the gift of seeing more deeply 241 00:26:11,528 --> 00:26:14,395 can see beyond form 242 00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:18,028 and concentrate on the wondrous aspect 243 00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:21,281 hiding behind every form, 244 00:26:22,456 --> 00:26:25,414 which is called life. 245 00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:52,232 If you compare her to the men, 246 00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:54,226 the supposed “genius” men, 247 00:26:54,321 --> 00:26:59,941 their steps towards abstraction were very timid, in a way... 248 00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,991 Like, very slow, year... 249 00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:04,035 It took years for them to do, 250 00:27:04,123 --> 00:27:08,867 and you can sort of see elements of their later vision 251 00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:11,452 creeping in slowly to their paintings. 252 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:37,190 This is someone who knows 253 00:27:37,281 --> 00:27:39,818 how to work with color, composition and format. 254 00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:43,275 At the same time, it doesn't look like any of her other work, 255 00:27:43,412 --> 00:27:45,824 nor like anyone else's from that period. 256 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:02,883 The power of the first 10 paintings she makes 257 00:28:02,973 --> 00:28:06,261 in 42 days, 258 00:28:06,393 --> 00:28:09,351 as an artist, they're sort of terrifying, 259 00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:12,186 because they're so powerful, they're so perfect, 260 00:28:12,274 --> 00:28:15,482 and they look like they were made yesterday, 261 00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,151 and they don't look like anything you've ever seen, 262 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:23,028 and how could she invent this in one moment? 263 00:28:30,459 --> 00:28:33,041 So we know now 264 00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:36,461 that the universe is 95% dark energy, dark matter. 265 00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:40,128 But the strange thing is, nobody gets excited about this. 266 00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:43,586 I think our world has become more blunted, stupid, dulled, 267 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,969 unless somewhere out there there's a hilma af klint painting it all, 268 00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:51,059 so in a hundred years we'll see what we've missed. 269 00:28:51,188 --> 00:28:54,146 I think this world has forgotten how to marvel. 270 00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:56,315 In 1900, we still knew how to marvel. 271 00:28:56,443 --> 00:29:00,857 Today, we sit in front of our iPhones and media and are bored. 272 00:29:51,498 --> 00:29:53,864 At the time when hilma af klint was working, 273 00:29:53,959 --> 00:29:59,625 it was becoming clear in the sciences 274 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:03,583 that reality is not only what we can see and touch. 275 00:30:03,677 --> 00:30:06,589 But it also extends beyond the visible. 276 00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:16,145 Major discoveries were being made, which were in the invisible realm. 277 00:30:16,231 --> 00:30:19,598 And suddenly we knew that all of space is full of waves 278 00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:24,437 that we can't perceive, but which are all powerful. 279 00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:29,116 The spectrum is enormous, starting out here with gamma rays, 280 00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:34,034 x-rays, radioactive waves, and all the way across to radio waves. 281 00:30:39,921 --> 00:30:42,378 The discovery we make here is: 282 00:30:42,466 --> 00:30:44,707 That we haven't seen the world at all. 283 00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:52,381 Here is the strange consequence. 284 00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:58,437 If I, as an artist, want to portray the world as it is, 285 00:30:58,523 --> 00:31:03,233 I must not portray it as it looks. Because it isn't like that! 286 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:08,485 So if I want to show the world as it is, I must invent it. 287 00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:00,282 But also something very responsive 288 00:32:00,377 --> 00:32:02,038 to what's happening in science, 289 00:32:02,129 --> 00:32:04,586 so she's looking at quantum mechanics 290 00:32:04,673 --> 00:32:08,382 as much as she's looking at natural science and at botany. 291 00:32:09,010 --> 00:32:11,092 A bit like Leonardo da Vinci: 292 00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:13,795 He was both an artist and a research scientist. 293 00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:17,053 And I'd say that hilma af klint was also both, 294 00:32:17,144 --> 00:32:20,682 in the field of images. 295 00:32:20,814 --> 00:32:24,352 She tried to dissolve the boundaries 296 00:32:24,443 --> 00:32:27,776 of what we call reality. 297 00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:21,840 Do you know what light looks like? 298 00:34:21,935 --> 00:34:26,304 In the 19th century, they were sure they knew what light was: A wave. 299 00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:29,686 But then Einstein realized 300 00:34:29,776 --> 00:34:31,562 you have to conceive it as a particle, too. 301 00:34:31,653 --> 00:34:34,941 Which led to his essential point, when he said: 302 00:34:35,031 --> 00:34:39,775 “If light is simultaneously both wave and particle, 303 00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:42,952 then we no longer know what it is." 304 00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:47,908 And he said that at this moment, he felt no ground under his feet. 305 00:34:57,679 --> 00:35:00,921 What I needed was courage 306 00:35:01,016 --> 00:35:06,227 and it was granted to me through the spiritual world, 307 00:35:06,313 --> 00:35:10,306 which bestowed rare and wonderful instruction. 308 00:36:01,409 --> 00:36:05,322 As a young, newly trained artist, 309 00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:07,950 together with her women friends, 310 00:36:08,041 --> 00:36:12,250 who were fellow graduates of the royal academy, 311 00:36:12,337 --> 00:36:15,750 they engaged in spiritualist séances. 312 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,377 This was quite common in the late 19th century, 313 00:36:18,468 --> 00:36:21,801 so there was nothing remarkable about that in itself. 314 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:26,802 The edelweiss society: 315 00:36:26,935 --> 00:36:30,894 There women and men attended séances, 316 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:36,062 including the director of the royal academy, 317 00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:40,065 and also August strindberg. 318 00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:47,870 Yet it was women above all who were active in the society. 319 00:36:47,956 --> 00:36:51,665 Is it possible that hilma af klint met August strindberg there? 320 00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:55,209 I'm sure they did. I think so. 321 00:36:55,296 --> 00:36:58,914 But neither of them knew how important the other would become. 322 00:37:02,303 --> 00:37:05,090 Hilma af klint 323 00:37:05,181 --> 00:37:10,266 admitted on June 8, 1896. It's crossed out, 324 00:37:10,353 --> 00:37:14,847 meaning that she left at some point, like Anna cassel, too. 325 00:37:19,779 --> 00:37:24,648 Then she started a group called the five 326 00:37:24,743 --> 00:37:27,109 with four other women. 327 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:32,951 And they received messages. 328 00:37:43,094 --> 00:37:48,009 "Accept, accept, hilma," the angel says. 329 00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:53,435 Then a wonderful energy flows 330 00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:58,481 from the heavenly into the earthly. 331 00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:03,400 There's the angel, and the earthly being is hilma. 332 00:38:03,490 --> 00:38:08,735 Here you see an utterance from these spiritual beings: 333 00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:13,822 "Hilma, you were brought here to do this." 334 00:39:06,302 --> 00:39:11,387 25,000 pages of notes, 335 00:39:11,474 --> 00:39:15,058 of a relentless quest to understand 336 00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:20,764 what this voyage of the mind and the visual was actually about. 337 00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:35,320 And science is also devoted 338 00:39:35,415 --> 00:39:38,157 to actually observing what is there. 339 00:39:38,251 --> 00:39:39,912 So in that sense, 340 00:39:40,003 --> 00:39:44,292 those two impulses are not so far apart. 341 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:47,124 She begins by looking, 342 00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:49,960 and she begins by listening. 343 00:39:58,605 --> 00:40:03,315 I registered their magnitude within me. 344 00:40:03,401 --> 00:40:06,234 Above the easel, I saw a Jupiter symbol, 345 00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:10,360 which shone brightly and persisted for several seconds. 346 00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:17,283 I started the work immediately, proceeding in such a way 347 00:40:17,373 --> 00:40:21,787 that the pictures were painted directly through me, 348 00:40:21,878 --> 00:40:24,290 with great power. 349 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,501 In one year, 350 00:41:09,592 --> 00:41:13,756 she painted 111 paintings. 351 00:41:13,846 --> 00:41:17,213 That is three days per painting. 352 00:41:23,231 --> 00:41:27,770 Ten panels, of paradisiacal beauty, would be created. 353 00:41:28,861 --> 00:41:30,977 They were edifying colors, 354 00:41:31,072 --> 00:41:34,815 and intended gently to impart to me all my feelings. 355 00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:40,536 It was the leaders' intention to give the world an insight 356 00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:46,914 into the systematization of four phases of human life. 357 00:41:47,046 --> 00:41:52,837 Each of the "ten largest” was to be created over four days. 358 00:41:54,637 --> 00:41:57,049 They are called: "Childhood", 359 00:42:01,019 --> 00:42:03,260 "youth", 360 00:42:08,026 --> 00:42:11,189 "adulthood" 361 00:42:20,329 --> 00:42:22,490 And "old age". 362 00:42:38,598 --> 00:42:42,182 For many people it's very provocative when someone says: 363 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:46,474 "Ll did this physically, but it's not by me, 364 00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:48,805 it came through me, 365 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:52,563 I was in contact with energies greater than me." 366 00:42:57,033 --> 00:43:01,151 Just imagine. In the early 70s, they offered hilma af klint's work 367 00:43:01,245 --> 00:43:04,737 to the moderna museet, and the director at that time said: 368 00:43:04,832 --> 00:43:06,538 "Thanks but no thanks. 369 00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:10,995 She didn't make her work accessible in her lifetime, 370 00:43:11,089 --> 00:43:12,875 so she's of no interest to us." 371 00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:16,291 When he heard that she was a medium 372 00:43:16,385 --> 00:43:18,296 at one stage, 373 00:43:18,387 --> 00:43:19,843 there was no discussion. 374 00:43:19,931 --> 00:43:21,262 He was not interested. 375 00:43:21,349 --> 00:43:24,557 He didn't even look at the pictures. 376 00:43:25,228 --> 00:43:28,846 If we start saying that artists with visions are not artists, 377 00:43:28,940 --> 00:43:32,148 then there's very little of art history left. 378 00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:34,608 We have to throw out constable and Blake 379 00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:38,153 and even strindberg and then kandinsky. 380 00:43:38,241 --> 00:43:42,484 To be thorough we need to throw out the entire Christian pre-history of art. 381 00:43:42,578 --> 00:43:44,569 I really don't know who would be left. 382 00:43:46,707 --> 00:43:48,789 Exhale - inhale 383 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,462 whether they exist or not, 384 00:43:55,550 --> 00:43:58,212 I think that hilma af klint's achievement 385 00:43:58,344 --> 00:44:01,711 lies in accepting the possibility 386 00:44:01,806 --> 00:44:05,264 of higher states of consciousness. 387 00:44:43,764 --> 00:44:45,550 She was one of the top students. 388 00:44:45,641 --> 00:44:49,634 She was granted a post-baccalaureate studio. 389 00:44:55,610 --> 00:45:01,071 This was the center of Stockholm in those days. 390 00:45:03,784 --> 00:45:05,024 So she was on top, 391 00:45:05,161 --> 00:45:08,528 and the blanch salons were on the first floor. 392 00:45:08,623 --> 00:45:15,370 And everybody with a certain name came here. 393 00:45:15,463 --> 00:45:23,463 So, hilma was exposed to the modern ways of painting 394 00:45:23,679 --> 00:45:28,890 and to all modern painters that passed by here. 395 00:45:28,976 --> 00:45:31,934 And she was here for 20 years. 396 00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:49,994 Whenever I was not using the studio at hamngatan 5 for my paintings, 397 00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:54,996 it was used by lotten ronnqvist 398 00:45:55,086 --> 00:45:57,919 and Alma arnell. 399 00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:02,169 Both were of the opinion that my work was improper. 400 00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:14,848 We have to remember that, in hilma af klint's day, 401 00:46:14,981 --> 00:46:20,271 people thought women could only be artists until they married. 402 00:46:20,361 --> 00:46:24,195 Because the real role of a woman is to be mother, 403 00:46:24,323 --> 00:46:26,985 housewife and spouse. 404 00:46:27,076 --> 00:46:31,786 The only witness she could call upon, 405 00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:35,785 to assert her right to do what she liked, was theosophy. 406 00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:53,011 The theosophical movement, 407 00:46:53,102 --> 00:46:55,468 according to Helena blavatsky, 408 00:46:55,604 --> 00:46:58,311 broke down all boundaries. 409 00:47:02,069 --> 00:47:03,434 Starting from the premise 410 00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:05,941 that all religions are basically the same, 411 00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:08,610 it leads to an awareness of the oneness 412 00:47:08,701 --> 00:47:10,282 of all human beings. 413 00:47:10,369 --> 00:47:12,985 The current standpoint of the mahatmas 414 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:17,073 the Jewish standpoint of the birth of Jesus 415 00:47:17,168 --> 00:47:20,831 Buddha's standpoint during earthly life 416 00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:24,334 the standpoint of judaism and heathendom 417 00:47:24,425 --> 00:47:27,917 the mohammedan standpoint 418 00:47:28,012 --> 00:47:31,220 the teaching of buddhism 419 00:47:31,307 --> 00:47:34,094 the Christian religion 420 00:47:41,984 --> 00:47:46,944 Theosophy was a kind of women's liberation theology. 421 00:47:48,908 --> 00:47:52,992 It gave women license to access higher worlds, 422 00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:55,912 which no other religion had given them. 423 00:47:55,998 --> 00:48:00,742 But theosophy said: "Sure, you can be priestesses.” 424 00:48:00,836 --> 00:48:05,421 Suddenly an infrastructure existed where they could meet. 425 00:48:09,387 --> 00:48:12,720 This anti-authoritarian aspect of theosophy, 426 00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:15,840 its welcoming of women, 427 00:48:15,976 --> 00:48:19,218 was a huge step forward for women. 428 00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:35,947 People look for ways to dismiss things, 429 00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:38,029 so one way is to say, "oh, I don't have 430 00:48:38,124 --> 00:48:39,955 to deal with this work, it's made by a woman." 431 00:48:40,042 --> 00:48:42,158 Or, "oh, I don't have to deal with this work 432 00:48:42,253 --> 00:48:44,494 because it wasn't written about before." 433 00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:46,108 "Oh, I don't have to deal with this work 434 00:48:46,132 --> 00:48:49,670 because she had some crazy spiritual ideas.” 435 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,046 Well, I mean, that's ridiculous on its face, 436 00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:54,254 because, first of all, 437 00:48:54,348 --> 00:48:57,932 every single intellectual that you can find at that time 438 00:48:58,018 --> 00:48:59,599 was a theosophist. 439 00:48:59,812 --> 00:49:03,020 Kandinsky, malevich, mondrian and hilma af klint, 440 00:49:03,107 --> 00:49:07,476 they were all interested in spiritual issues, 441 00:49:07,570 --> 00:49:13,031 in theosophy and anthroposophy, to differing degrees. 442 00:49:13,117 --> 00:49:16,200 That was due to the time they were living in. 443 00:49:25,504 --> 00:49:27,836 "Dr. Rudolf steiner. 444 00:49:27,923 --> 00:49:29,788 Now I have a purpose to do, 445 00:49:29,925 --> 00:49:32,132 after taking counsel of some of the members 446 00:49:32,219 --> 00:49:34,881 of 'teosofist, ' 447 00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:37,133 asking you if it should be possible for you 448 00:49:37,266 --> 00:49:39,473 to go to Stockholm. 449 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,176 The paintings are many and great, 450 00:49:42,271 --> 00:49:45,434 and I cannot go to you. 451 00:49:45,566 --> 00:49:48,433 Please do it, if you have any time." 452 00:49:52,072 --> 00:49:55,030 Rudolf steiner was a man of great charisma. 453 00:49:55,117 --> 00:50:00,237 In 1908, he was still head of the German-language section 454 00:50:00,331 --> 00:50:02,993 of the theosophical society. 455 00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:06,621 She brought steiner to look at her pictures. 456 00:50:09,548 --> 00:50:11,288 She was a strong character, 457 00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:15,171 but she also wanted acceptance and guidance, 458 00:50:15,262 --> 00:50:17,173 coaching, you would say today. 459 00:50:17,264 --> 00:50:23,305 And I think she saw that steiner could be that person. 460 00:50:23,395 --> 00:50:28,059 I don't think that steiner saw the same thing. 461 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:33,944 And then he told her 462 00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:36,522 that her way of working was not appropriate. 463 00:50:36,617 --> 00:50:40,155 She shouldn't be painting like a medium, 464 00:50:40,246 --> 00:50:43,613 and that her contemporaries wouldn't accept her painting 465 00:50:43,707 --> 00:50:46,574 until 50 years later. 466 00:50:46,669 --> 00:50:48,705 That was in 1908, and after that, 467 00:50:48,796 --> 00:50:53,085 it was a rupture for four years, 468 00:50:53,175 --> 00:50:57,919 where there are no traces of her paintings. 469 00:51:03,519 --> 00:51:07,011 Well, in the same year, 1908, 470 00:51:07,106 --> 00:51:12,191 Rudolf steiner also met wassily kandinsky. 471 00:51:12,278 --> 00:51:14,269 From a letter, we know that photographs 472 00:51:14,363 --> 00:51:17,446 of hilma af klint's huge abstract paintings 473 00:51:17,533 --> 00:51:21,117 were in steiner's possession, 474 00:51:21,203 --> 00:51:26,573 maybe even the hand-colored ones, 475 00:51:26,709 --> 00:51:28,324 and at a time when nobody else 476 00:51:28,419 --> 00:51:31,536 was painting abstract. 477 00:51:35,759 --> 00:51:39,547 It's quite possible that actually some artists 478 00:51:39,638 --> 00:51:43,472 saw her work and brought those ideas to Paris, 479 00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:47,051 for example, before... We don't know. 480 00:52:21,889 --> 00:52:26,883 She lived in this environment quite intensively 481 00:52:26,977 --> 00:52:29,764 for most of her life. 482 00:52:44,828 --> 00:52:47,820 For a few years after that, she stopped working, 483 00:52:47,915 --> 00:52:51,749 and only started again in 1912. For four years, she didn't work. 484 00:52:51,835 --> 00:52:54,201 It was also the time when her mother went blind. 485 00:52:54,338 --> 00:52:59,173 So suddenly she had to do much more for her mother at home, 486 00:53:06,642 --> 00:53:08,758 I think she had this problem with her family, 487 00:53:08,894 --> 00:53:12,887 I think she was not really understood by her family. 488 00:53:15,401 --> 00:53:17,517 I think she was close to her father, 489 00:53:17,611 --> 00:53:18,726 but when he died, 490 00:53:18,821 --> 00:53:21,813 I think she was kind of alone. 491 00:53:21,907 --> 00:53:24,649 I'm not sure about her relation to her mother. 492 00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:28,327 I'm curious about that, but I don't know. 493 00:53:36,672 --> 00:53:40,415 The family said hilma was painting odd things 494 00:53:40,509 --> 00:53:43,421 that no one should see. 495 00:53:43,512 --> 00:53:47,175 So everyone was offended 496 00:53:47,266 --> 00:53:50,599 at her keeping all this secret. 497 00:53:54,022 --> 00:53:59,858 Having her as a dinner guest was a bit difficult. 498 00:53:59,945 --> 00:54:03,984 She never ate fish, she never ate meat. 499 00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:08,317 And actually, I don't think she ate eggs. 500 00:54:08,412 --> 00:54:11,779 So it was root vegetables or Greens - 501 00:54:11,874 --> 00:54:14,456 a real vegetarian. 502 00:54:16,128 --> 00:54:18,210 Choose appropriate food 503 00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:45,362 Hilma was by the locals here said to be very kind 504 00:54:45,449 --> 00:54:49,283 but rather serious and a little stiff upper lip, 505 00:54:49,369 --> 00:54:50,825 so to speak. 506 00:54:50,913 --> 00:54:53,370 - Oh dear. - Oh dear. 507 00:54:53,457 --> 00:54:56,699 I don't picture her like that. 508 00:54:56,794 --> 00:55:00,207 Because I found this picture in a magazine 509 00:55:00,297 --> 00:55:02,879 where she actually was dressed as a clown. 510 00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:07,630 So she has a sense of humor, she must have had. 511 00:55:17,815 --> 00:55:21,399 There was someone she loved, 512 00:55:21,485 --> 00:55:25,353 a doctor from the malaren islands, 513 00:55:25,447 --> 00:55:27,438 called helleday. 514 00:55:27,574 --> 00:55:31,613 This doctor seemed to have been very fond of her, 515 00:55:31,745 --> 00:55:36,489 but she declined marriage. She once said, 516 00:55:36,583 --> 00:55:42,874 "within me Wells forth such a power 517 00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:46,002 carrying me forward, 518 00:55:46,093 --> 00:55:52,635 that marriage and family happiness are not my destiny.” 519 00:56:12,327 --> 00:56:17,697 The more we discover the wonders of nature, 520 00:56:17,791 --> 00:56:21,704 the more we become aware of ourselves. 521 00:56:38,312 --> 00:56:41,270 First, I want to understand the flowers of the earth. 522 00:56:43,817 --> 00:56:47,685 I shall start with the world's flowers. 523 00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:01,661 Then, with the same care, 524 00:57:01,752 --> 00:57:05,711 I shall study whatever lives in the waters of the world. 525 00:57:08,884 --> 00:57:12,422 Then comes the gate into the blue ether 526 00:57:12,512 --> 00:57:15,595 with its many species of animals. 527 00:57:22,397 --> 00:57:25,981 And finally I shall enter the woods, 528 00:57:26,068 --> 00:57:30,061 to study the damp mosses, all trees 529 00:57:30,155 --> 00:57:36,025 and animals living among the cool, dark multitude of trees. 530 00:57:41,166 --> 00:57:43,953 Flowers, mosses and leeches by hilma af klint 531 00:57:49,925 --> 00:57:52,792 The common spirit of humankind 532 00:58:07,901 --> 00:58:10,392 Transmission of power 533 00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:16,027 it's obvious that hilma af klint's works are not intellectual maps 534 00:58:16,118 --> 00:58:18,450 to be understood rationally. 535 00:58:18,578 --> 00:58:21,365 You need your whole body, 536 00:58:21,456 --> 00:58:23,993 to receive these works in a way 537 00:58:24,084 --> 00:58:27,042 in which the intellect only plays a small role, 538 00:58:27,129 --> 00:58:29,370 and by no means everything. 539 00:58:43,645 --> 00:58:46,557 Notes on letters and words, 540 00:58:46,648 --> 00:58:49,731 pertaining to the works of hilma af klint. 541 00:59:00,787 --> 00:59:06,657 The essence of all human existence lies within "wu". 542 00:59:24,686 --> 00:59:28,395 One symbol that you see again and again is the spiral. 543 00:59:28,523 --> 00:59:33,734 In all cultures, when you're moving out from a central point, 544 00:59:33,820 --> 00:59:38,655 a spiral signifies development. 545 00:59:38,742 --> 00:59:43,782 And if you follow a spiral inwards, towards the center, 546 00:59:43,872 --> 00:59:47,831 you can think of that as going deeper. 547 00:59:57,385 --> 00:59:59,125 And people said on adelso, 548 00:59:59,221 --> 01:00:02,054 "how strange, what can miss af klint possibly want 549 01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:05,007 with all the eggs that she buys?” 550 01:00:23,036 --> 01:00:26,494 I think she has such a luminous palette, which actually, 551 01:00:26,581 --> 01:00:29,869 looking at it today, has a sort of pop art quality. 552 01:00:34,256 --> 01:00:38,169 Like these large-format, sunny orange tones... 553 01:00:38,260 --> 01:00:41,252 I really can't think of any oeuvre to compare it with. 554 01:01:00,115 --> 01:01:03,699 To my mind, her color scheme is very important. 555 01:01:03,785 --> 01:01:05,525 Blue is the most important color, 556 01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:07,235 then comes yellow, 557 01:01:07,330 --> 01:01:09,912 and the kind of ground, as you see in the 10 largest, 558 01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:14,289 is pink, the world is pink. 559 01:01:14,379 --> 01:01:19,294 It's the color of life and growth. 560 01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:26,763 We know that blue is a color she associates with femininity, 561 01:01:26,850 --> 01:01:29,842 and yellow with masculinity. 562 01:01:35,567 --> 01:01:39,526 Many players struggling in this drama, 563 01:01:39,613 --> 01:01:43,572 have been dressed in the wrong clothing. 564 01:01:46,286 --> 01:01:49,653 Many a female costume conceals a man. 565 01:01:49,748 --> 01:01:53,240 Many a male costume conceals a woman. 566 01:02:01,593 --> 01:02:04,756 A lot of hilma af klint's work is actually about living 567 01:02:04,888 --> 01:02:09,973 in a polarized world - a world of male and female, 568 01:02:10,101 --> 01:02:14,014 of day and night, of heat and cold 569 01:02:14,105 --> 01:02:18,223 and where we feel that the world is divided 570 01:02:18,318 --> 01:02:20,434 into extremes. 571 01:02:35,126 --> 01:02:40,166 The development of the world includes the wonderful dilemma 572 01:02:40,298 --> 01:02:44,883 that light itself is divided into brightness and darkness. 573 01:02:46,471 --> 01:02:50,589 This problem is especially difficult to understand for a blind world 574 01:02:50,725 --> 01:02:54,183 whose organization is founded on two forces 575 01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:56,387 instead of one. 576 01:03:00,986 --> 01:03:04,149 The atom is myself and the world, 577 01:03:04,239 --> 01:03:07,322 for I am inseparable from the world. 578 01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:14,241 The atom is here. I am the atom together with the world. 579 01:03:14,332 --> 01:03:18,200 We are both indivisible. I and the world, both of us. 580 01:03:18,295 --> 01:03:20,377 That is the atom. 581 01:04:08,803 --> 01:04:10,464 It was a new way of painting, 582 01:04:10,555 --> 01:04:12,796 it was a new form of art, 583 01:04:12,891 --> 01:04:17,100 and she... she walked away at the same time 584 01:04:17,187 --> 01:04:18,597 as she made the way, 585 01:04:18,688 --> 01:04:20,144 she has written herself, 586 01:04:20,231 --> 01:04:23,268 and that's not easy, 587 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,817 to be a pioneer in that sense. 588 01:04:26,654 --> 01:04:28,736 In solitude 589 01:04:43,463 --> 01:04:48,457 It might have been a hand towel or a bedsheet, or a pillowcase 590 01:04:48,593 --> 01:04:50,549 whatever she'd sewn together. 591 01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:56,298 People once had beautifully woven textiles in their homes. 592 01:04:56,393 --> 01:04:59,635 Of course, materials are expensive, and hilma af klint 593 01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:04,098 had sold very little since 1906, when she started painting 594 01:05:04,234 --> 01:05:09,274 her abstract works, and she was living very frugally. 595 01:05:09,364 --> 01:05:13,073 So this makes sense. It's interesting that you saw that. 596 01:05:23,878 --> 01:05:28,042 In the summer, she wanted to live in the studio 597 01:05:28,133 --> 01:05:32,467 she'd built for herself on munso. 598 01:05:35,432 --> 01:05:40,643 How she was able to exist was a mystery to us. 599 01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:59,324 Hilma and Anna cassel met at the royal academy 600 01:05:59,414 --> 01:06:01,621 in 1882. 601 01:06:01,708 --> 01:06:07,169 As one of the siblings said, they forged a lifelong friendship. 602 01:06:09,549 --> 01:06:12,541 Later, it was said in our family, 603 01:06:12,635 --> 01:06:15,923 that Anna financed hilma's painting. 604 01:06:16,014 --> 01:06:20,257 She was extremely well-to-do, and she helped in various ways. 605 01:06:22,020 --> 01:06:26,639 She also saw to the building of the studio on munso, 606 01:06:26,733 --> 01:06:29,691 which was on the giertta family's land. 607 01:06:29,777 --> 01:06:32,735 It was demolished after hilma died. 608 01:06:43,041 --> 01:06:46,659 Come on, follow me. 609 01:06:52,342 --> 01:06:57,302 We have the oldest one over here. 610 01:06:57,388 --> 01:07:00,095 This is my husband's great-grandmother 611 01:07:00,183 --> 01:07:02,344 and grandfather. 612 01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:05,177 They befriended her, 613 01:07:05,271 --> 01:07:10,937 and hilma spent a lot of time here in this house. 614 01:07:12,654 --> 01:07:17,944 Their daughter-in-law and hilma were great friends. 615 01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:22,152 Hilma and Emily were very close, 616 01:07:22,247 --> 01:07:24,408 very close indeed. 617 01:07:24,499 --> 01:07:27,787 They had the same, you know, outlook on life, 618 01:07:27,877 --> 01:07:32,416 and they did séances and stuff together. 619 01:07:32,507 --> 01:07:35,499 I knew she was doing abstracts 620 01:07:35,593 --> 01:07:40,212 but not with that power, oh gosh. 621 01:07:40,306 --> 01:07:44,970 No wonder she needed this big house to have them in! 622 01:07:47,939 --> 01:07:52,353 It was a great view out to the lake. 623 01:07:54,445 --> 01:07:57,482 It was a very peculiar house. 624 01:08:00,159 --> 01:08:02,946 It was built in the gothic style. 625 01:08:03,037 --> 01:08:07,576 It was very tall and not very big. 626 01:08:07,709 --> 01:08:11,247 It consisted of a large hall, 627 01:08:11,337 --> 01:08:15,080 with rods slung across 628 01:08:15,174 --> 01:08:18,382 so she could hang her paintings. 629 01:08:22,557 --> 01:08:26,345 There she lived during the summer 630 01:08:26,477 --> 01:08:28,468 together with her elderly mother. 631 01:08:28,605 --> 01:08:32,814 There was also a nurse 632 01:08:32,900 --> 01:08:34,436 to help her with her mother. 633 01:08:34,527 --> 01:08:36,893 There hilma was able to paint. 634 01:08:49,917 --> 01:08:54,286 Every time I succeed in finishing one of my sketches, 635 01:08:54,380 --> 01:08:58,123 my understanding of humanity, animals, 636 01:08:58,217 --> 01:09:00,583 plants, minerals, 637 01:09:00,678 --> 01:09:05,638 of the entire creation, becomes clearer. 638 01:09:08,394 --> 01:09:14,765 I feel freed and raised up above my limited consciousness. 639 01:09:26,037 --> 01:09:28,904 And we want to fit her into this story 640 01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,031 that we typically tell about artists, 641 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:32,657 but it's impossible, 642 01:09:32,752 --> 01:09:34,663 because women didn't fit that story, 643 01:09:34,754 --> 01:09:37,871 and so, you know, she would have to find 644 01:09:37,965 --> 01:09:39,330 another way to live 645 01:09:39,467 --> 01:09:42,755 and to live out her... The kind of grandeur 646 01:09:42,845 --> 01:09:45,461 of her creative vision. 647 01:09:59,445 --> 01:10:02,278 The temple that will hold the paintings one day 648 01:10:02,407 --> 01:10:04,944 must be built of alabaster. 649 01:10:05,034 --> 01:10:08,572 In other words, it must be completely white. 650 01:10:11,916 --> 01:10:14,999 At its central point will be the astronomical tower 651 01:10:15,086 --> 01:10:17,873 with an internal spiral staircase. 652 01:10:26,305 --> 01:10:30,344 The place we have chosen for it is the island of ven in the ...Resund. 653 01:10:40,445 --> 01:10:44,029 She wanted it to be surrounded by water. 654 01:10:45,366 --> 01:10:47,027 She was old at that time, 655 01:10:47,118 --> 01:10:52,704 and it wasn't so much about her personal success. 656 01:10:52,790 --> 01:10:55,702 It was more about 657 01:10:55,793 --> 01:10:59,001 giving the paintings to the world. 658 01:11:26,949 --> 01:11:30,112 She then went up to dornach, 659 01:11:30,203 --> 01:11:32,910 to Rudolf steiner, and said, "look. 660 01:11:32,997 --> 01:11:37,331 We want both to build a temple. 661 01:11:37,418 --> 01:11:39,659 I have the paintings. 662 01:11:39,754 --> 01:11:42,370 Let's build it together.” 663 01:11:42,507 --> 01:11:46,466 She did say that. And he refused her and said no. 664 01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:49,134 "I'm building my dornach first, 665 01:11:49,222 --> 01:11:51,884 then we'll see what happens to your temple." 666 01:11:52,850 --> 01:11:55,717 Herr Dr. steiner, 667 01:11:55,812 --> 01:11:59,396 should the paintings which I created 668 01:11:59,482 --> 01:12:02,349 between 1906 and 1920, 669 01:12:02,443 --> 01:12:06,061 some of which you once saw for yourself, 670 01:12:06,155 --> 01:12:08,612 be destroyed? 671 01:12:08,699 --> 01:12:11,486 Or can one do something with them? 672 01:12:16,874 --> 01:12:19,661 That sounds more like a threat, 673 01:12:19,752 --> 01:12:21,538 showing how urgent it was for her 674 01:12:21,629 --> 01:12:24,666 to find a place for her paintings. 675 01:12:29,262 --> 01:12:32,345 In order to influence the zeitgeist 676 01:12:32,431 --> 01:12:34,137 or influence the art world 677 01:12:34,225 --> 01:12:37,137 or influence at different levels, 678 01:12:37,228 --> 01:12:40,311 you have to have some key people on your side. 679 01:12:40,398 --> 01:12:42,639 It's really that simple. 680 01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:47,897 Dear Mr. neumann, 681 01:12:47,989 --> 01:12:52,983 I know how important “publicity” is, especially in America. 682 01:12:53,077 --> 01:12:56,945 Could I ask you, therefore, to beat the drum a little? 683 01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:59,530 I have never before exhibited watercolors in New York, 684 01:12:59,667 --> 01:13:03,080 which would be a reason for a resounding drumbeat. 685 01:13:12,346 --> 01:13:14,132 It's often said that hilma af klint 686 01:13:14,223 --> 01:13:17,056 never exhibited during her lifetime, 687 01:13:17,143 --> 01:13:20,351 but there are many letters left in her estate in Sweden 688 01:13:20,438 --> 01:13:22,394 which tell another story. 689 01:13:25,568 --> 01:13:28,230 June 9, 1928. 690 01:13:28,321 --> 01:13:29,982 Dear miss af klint, 691 01:13:30,072 --> 01:13:33,109 yesterday at the hague, I heard that you would be exhibiting. 692 01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,191 The matter appears to be well in hand. 693 01:13:35,286 --> 01:13:38,904 So please ask again when you are ready to send the paintings. 694 01:13:38,998 --> 01:13:42,331 Heartfelt greetings, Peggy kloppers. 695 01:13:42,460 --> 01:13:44,325 Dear Mrs. kloppers, 696 01:13:44,420 --> 01:13:48,208 transportation from Sweden to London is not very quick, 697 01:13:48,299 --> 01:13:50,836 and packaging everything up also takes time. 698 01:13:50,927 --> 01:13:53,760 I have today written to Mrs. merry. 699 01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:58,055 To ask how many square meters I can have, 700 01:13:58,142 --> 01:14:01,100 and to emphasize that it would be better 701 01:14:01,228 --> 01:14:04,971 to put the paintings in a room next to the exhibition hall. 702 01:14:08,527 --> 01:14:11,314 But here, the correspondence ends. 703 01:14:11,405 --> 01:14:15,193 The path Peters out. 704 01:14:15,284 --> 01:14:18,401 Until, in the year 2018, 705 01:14:18,496 --> 01:14:22,910 when suddenly, a postcard comes to light... 706 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:24,786 From London. 707 01:14:28,089 --> 01:14:30,080 Dear Anna, 708 01:14:30,174 --> 01:14:33,587 we enjoyed a glorious voyage of four and a half days 709 01:14:33,678 --> 01:14:36,545 with the most amiable captain. 710 01:14:36,681 --> 01:14:39,639 He helped us with the car. 711 01:14:39,767 --> 01:14:42,554 Tomorrow Mrs. merry will be joining us, 712 01:14:42,645 --> 01:14:46,137 to unpack the paintings as planned. 713 01:14:46,232 --> 01:14:49,599 Heartfelt greetings, your friend, hilma. 714 01:15:03,666 --> 01:15:05,952 So, in 1928, 715 01:15:06,043 --> 01:15:07,783 hilma af klint had an exhibition 716 01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:10,377 in the center of London. 717 01:15:10,464 --> 01:15:13,797 Did it also include her ten large ones? 718 01:15:18,556 --> 01:15:23,425 And why has it taken 90 years for this fact to surface? 719 01:15:25,730 --> 01:15:27,686 Art history, the past 500 years, 720 01:15:27,815 --> 01:15:29,476 how many women are in it? 721 01:15:29,567 --> 01:15:31,933 None, basically, you know? 722 01:15:32,028 --> 01:15:33,643 And then... and you say, "why?" 723 01:15:33,738 --> 01:15:35,694 And they say, "oh, because there were 724 01:15:35,781 --> 01:15:38,898 no great women artists," but it's not true. 725 01:15:38,993 --> 01:15:40,403 That's not true... that's a lie. 726 01:15:45,332 --> 01:15:49,075 In male art history, it's all about "genius." 727 01:15:49,170 --> 01:15:52,628 But "genius" excluded women because women "had no genius." 728 01:15:52,757 --> 01:15:55,464 They could do pretty still lifes of flowers, 729 01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:58,463 or a nice portrait, 730 01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:00,840 or a successful landscape, but not a "work of genius." 731 01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:04,841 It's still harder for women to be in the art world. 732 01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:06,675 There's no shadow of a doubt. 733 01:16:06,771 --> 01:16:08,557 You take it for granted 734 01:16:08,647 --> 01:16:10,683 that you have a collection 735 01:16:10,775 --> 01:16:12,106 and it's mostly male artists 736 01:16:12,193 --> 01:16:13,729 and you take it for granted, 737 01:16:13,819 --> 01:16:15,559 and that's the way it's supposed to be. 738 01:16:15,696 --> 01:16:18,733 There are as many women artists. 739 01:16:18,866 --> 01:16:20,982 Art schools, it's like still 740 01:16:21,077 --> 01:16:24,194 a bigger percentage of women at art schools, 741 01:16:24,288 --> 01:16:26,324 so you have to ask yourself, you know, 742 01:16:26,415 --> 01:16:28,531 what happens between art school 743 01:16:28,626 --> 01:16:30,662 and the marketplace? 744 01:16:30,753 --> 01:16:34,211 This is a club system, you know? 745 01:16:34,298 --> 01:16:36,209 Boy... you can call it boys' club, 746 01:16:36,300 --> 01:16:38,882 you can call it "the market club,” 747 01:16:38,969 --> 01:16:40,584 you know, you can call it anywhere. 748 01:16:40,679 --> 01:16:42,385 There is this club system 749 01:16:42,473 --> 01:16:44,213 that excludes so many people, 750 01:16:44,308 --> 01:16:47,721 and museums are not immune to this. 751 01:16:54,026 --> 01:16:56,642 Now, with all these all-women shows, 752 01:16:56,737 --> 01:16:58,147 people are ticking a box and saying, 753 01:16:58,239 --> 01:16:59,820 "okay, tick, done. 754 01:16:59,907 --> 01:17:01,443 Okay, let's go to the next. 755 01:17:01,534 --> 01:17:03,525 They're done, politically correct, done. 756 01:17:03,619 --> 01:17:06,986 We have adjusted the imbalance.” 757 01:17:07,081 --> 01:17:11,871 And so... and all these all-women shows have become also 758 01:17:11,961 --> 01:17:14,668 kind of fashionable, 759 01:17:14,755 --> 01:17:17,838 and no, we don't want to be fashionable. 760 01:17:17,925 --> 01:17:20,712 We really want to be part of art history. 761 01:17:32,314 --> 01:17:36,102 There were always outstanding women, but what's interesting is 762 01:17:36,193 --> 01:17:39,435 they came and were forgotten again and again. 763 01:17:39,530 --> 01:17:43,022 So every generation is repeating: "Hey, I didn't know about her!" 764 01:17:50,332 --> 01:17:52,869 It's true there weren't that many, 765 01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,248 but there were not as few as we find in our museums, 766 01:17:56,338 --> 01:17:59,375 or admit into art history. 767 01:17:59,466 --> 01:18:02,799 There were far more than are being shown today. 768 01:18:02,887 --> 01:18:06,675 I think that's the scandal we really must address. 769 01:18:42,635 --> 01:18:46,799 She lived a most industrious life. 770 01:18:51,477 --> 01:18:56,346 And she agreed with her dear kinswoman, hedvig af klint, 771 01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:58,806 to move to live with her at djursholms ...Sby, 772 01:18:58,901 --> 01:19:03,520 in her very pleasant villa 773 01:19:03,656 --> 01:19:05,942 next to ...Sby station. 774 01:19:12,665 --> 01:19:15,782 But hilma had not been living there long 775 01:19:15,876 --> 01:19:20,245 before she fell victim to an accident involving a tram, 776 01:19:20,339 --> 01:19:23,957 as a result of which she became ill and died. 777 01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:37,887 She was 82 years old. 778 01:19:39,984 --> 01:19:43,067 And she had waited 779 01:19:43,153 --> 01:19:47,442 for Erik to come back from sea. 780 01:19:47,533 --> 01:19:50,775 And yes, he did return to her in time. 781 01:20:00,004 --> 01:20:01,960 I understand why she did that. 782 01:20:02,047 --> 01:20:04,959 Because Erik was the only one she could turn to, 783 01:20:05,092 --> 01:20:06,957 the only one who was capable 784 01:20:07,052 --> 01:20:10,670 of getting to grips with all this and understanding her. 785 01:20:16,603 --> 01:20:19,936 Her will left everything to Erik, 786 01:20:20,024 --> 01:20:23,937 but nothing could be sold. 787 01:21:08,655 --> 01:21:13,945 It's basically like a trick played 788 01:21:14,036 --> 01:21:16,152 on the art establishment, 789 01:21:16,246 --> 01:21:19,784 an experiment that shows the establishment up for what it is. 790 01:21:28,926 --> 01:21:32,760 Our present point of view 791 01:21:32,846 --> 01:21:36,839 who wrote the history of abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s? 792 01:21:36,934 --> 01:21:38,845 The museum of modern art in New York. 793 01:21:38,977 --> 01:21:41,844 Who has all the pictures of that history? 794 01:21:41,939 --> 01:21:44,476 The moma in New York. 795 01:21:44,566 --> 01:21:48,184 Now suddenly there's a counter history: 796 01:21:48,278 --> 01:21:49,688 Centered around a woman, 797 01:21:49,780 --> 01:21:53,068 who is not on the market, and from whom they have not a single work. 798 01:21:53,158 --> 01:21:56,446 Of course they're going to say: "Sorry, she's not important.” 799 01:22:01,250 --> 01:22:04,117 All these successful artists who are sold internationally 800 01:22:04,211 --> 01:22:06,543 as investment strategies, 801 01:22:06,630 --> 01:22:08,495 work in series. 802 01:22:08,590 --> 01:22:11,297 Only series can be sold at the same time across the world, 803 01:22:11,385 --> 01:22:14,001 only with series can prices be driven higher. 804 01:22:14,096 --> 01:22:16,838 So should hilma af klint come on the market now, 805 01:22:16,932 --> 01:22:19,514 she'd be a hit, with everyone interested, 806 01:22:19,643 --> 01:22:24,228 and the moma would be first in line to exhibit her. 807 01:22:24,314 --> 01:22:26,054 And part of this devious trick 808 01:22:26,150 --> 01:22:29,688 is that she can't be integrated into this market system. 809 01:22:29,778 --> 01:22:32,235 Which I think shows, 810 01:22:32,322 --> 01:22:34,313 in a diabolical way, 811 01:22:34,408 --> 01:22:36,694 how narrow-minded this art system is. 812 01:22:36,785 --> 01:22:41,575 It's all about the question: 813 01:22:41,665 --> 01:22:44,532 "How much money can we make?" 814 01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:47,580 And with hilma af klint you can't make any. 815 01:22:54,970 --> 01:22:57,052 Less selfishness, more indifference 816 01:23:02,144 --> 01:23:06,103 She lived under hardship and didn't sell anything 817 01:23:06,190 --> 01:23:10,354 because she knew that she had to keep this intact. 818 01:23:24,208 --> 01:23:30,295 My mission, if it succeeds, 819 01:23:30,380 --> 01:23:35,591 is of great significance to humankind. 820 01:23:35,719 --> 01:23:40,634 For I am able to describe the path of the soul 821 01:23:40,724 --> 01:23:46,594 from the beginning of the spectacle of life to its end. 822 01:24:18,470 --> 01:24:20,802 There are a lot of works, 823 01:24:20,889 --> 01:24:24,802 that have never even been unrolled 824 01:24:24,893 --> 01:24:27,760 or taken out of boxes since hilma af klint's death. 825 01:24:30,899 --> 01:24:34,733 We've spent many months looking at works, 826 01:24:34,820 --> 01:24:37,857 unrolling them so that we can exhibit them. 827 01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:47,204 It's thanks to the commitment of a woman curator 828 01:24:47,291 --> 01:24:50,658 that hilma af klint has now got this exhibition. 829 01:25:34,421 --> 01:25:37,538 One million people have seen this exhibition, 830 01:25:37,633 --> 01:25:40,921 which is a terrific number, an unbelievable number. 831 01:25:41,011 --> 01:25:43,172 Never in my wildest dreams 832 01:25:43,263 --> 01:25:47,256 did I think that so many people would come. 833 01:26:03,492 --> 01:26:06,825 It really hit me like a bomb. 834 01:26:06,953 --> 01:26:11,367 I've never seen anything so extraordinary. 835 01:26:11,458 --> 01:26:14,120 And I don't even like kandinsky. 836 01:26:22,552 --> 01:26:25,589 "The woman who invented abstraction" 837 01:26:38,110 --> 01:26:41,068 "Hilma leaves vassily behind” 838 01:26:48,912 --> 01:26:51,870 Many who saw the exhibition 839 01:26:51,957 --> 01:26:55,791 were astonished at their own reaction to it. 840 01:26:55,877 --> 01:27:00,997 For instance, I saw people who suddenly burst into tears, 841 01:27:01,091 --> 01:27:03,833 or suddenly became completely calm and quiet. 842 01:27:05,429 --> 01:27:09,092 It appears that these works do something to us, 843 01:27:09,182 --> 01:27:13,516 not only through their sheer size, but also through a kind of energy. 844 01:27:47,304 --> 01:27:53,095 If I pass away in lund and am cremated in malmo, 845 01:27:53,185 --> 01:27:58,976 the urn should be buried in the churchyard on munsao. 846 01:28:21,213 --> 01:28:25,877 Here you have the grave of Victor, 847 01:28:25,967 --> 01:28:28,379 the father of hilma, 848 01:28:28,470 --> 01:28:31,428 and he lies here with his wife 849 01:28:31,515 --> 01:28:34,473 and hilma. 850 01:28:34,559 --> 01:28:35,594 How do you know? 851 01:28:35,685 --> 01:28:37,095 There's no sign. 852 01:28:37,187 --> 01:28:41,476 Uh, because my father had her interred here. 853 01:28:48,073 --> 01:28:50,314 The question remains: 854 01:28:50,408 --> 01:28:53,775 Why is there no reference to hilma af klint anywhere, 855 01:28:53,870 --> 01:28:55,326 not even at the houses and places 856 01:28:55,413 --> 01:28:59,622 where she lived and worked? 857 01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:02,451 The... l find it very strange, 858 01:29:02,546 --> 01:29:05,333 because Sweden is... We are such a small country, 859 01:29:05,423 --> 01:29:08,665 and usually, we are very proud of people 860 01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:11,342 that are doing something remarkable, 861 01:29:11,429 --> 01:29:15,672 because we need everybody, you know, 862 01:29:15,767 --> 01:29:20,010 to get our country on the world map. 863 01:29:24,651 --> 01:29:29,395 Sweden is an incredibly secular country now. 864 01:29:29,489 --> 01:29:32,151 It used to be a very mystical one, 865 01:29:32,242 --> 01:29:35,780 shrouded in myth and legend, 866 01:29:35,871 --> 01:29:40,706 and the modern swedes very much distance themselves from that. 867 01:29:45,255 --> 01:29:48,918 I think it's going to take another ten or twenty years 868 01:29:49,050 --> 01:29:55,421 before Sweden truly realizes what a treasure it possesses, 869 01:29:55,515 --> 01:29:58,848 that perhaps in twenty or thirty years, hilma af klint 870 01:29:58,935 --> 01:30:02,644 will be acknowledged 871 01:30:02,731 --> 01:30:05,017 as the most important Swedish artist. 872 01:31:01,206 --> 01:31:02,696 If we ask ourselves, 873 01:31:02,791 --> 01:31:07,330 "how do we want to relate the history of abstraction?” 874 01:31:07,420 --> 01:31:10,787 It's no longer possible to tell a story 875 01:31:10,882 --> 01:31:12,622 that excludes hilma af klint. 876 01:31:16,554 --> 01:31:20,638 Suddenly there's a woman, suddenly we have to talk about spiritualism, 877 01:31:20,767 --> 01:31:23,429 and we have to ask, what is meant by abstraction? 878 01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:28,560 We can't present hilma af klint as an isolated figure, 879 01:31:28,650 --> 01:31:31,813 because she brings with her a whole series of questions 880 01:31:31,903 --> 01:31:36,772 that will hopefully make art history exciting again for years to come. 881 01:31:49,587 --> 01:31:51,123 We have an opportunity right now 882 01:31:51,214 --> 01:31:54,001 to remake the history of art in a better way 883 01:31:54,134 --> 01:31:55,624 by using hilma af klint. 884 01:31:55,719 --> 01:31:56,925 It seems to me there's 885 01:31:57,012 --> 01:31:58,502 a window of opportunity right now 886 01:31:58,596 --> 01:32:00,132 that everybody's unsure 887 01:32:00,223 --> 01:32:02,464 because it causes them to rethink, 888 01:32:02,559 --> 01:32:05,517 and let's hope that people are brave 889 01:32:05,645 --> 01:32:11,356 and that they allow her work to change other people's work, 890 01:32:11,443 --> 01:32:13,559 and that's what art is supposed to do. 891 01:32:13,653 --> 01:32:15,894 And if they don't do that, 892 01:32:15,989 --> 01:32:17,604 um, that's sad, 893 01:32:17,699 --> 01:32:22,033 and they have made life more boring, um, so... 894 01:32:48,188 --> 01:32:51,601 Sometimes we need courageous spirits, 895 01:32:51,691 --> 01:32:57,311 and I would truly say that she was a courageous, determined person. 896 01:32:57,405 --> 01:32:59,691 Sometimes it takes time 897 01:32:59,824 --> 01:33:03,157 for others to come closer, 898 01:33:03,244 --> 01:33:08,364 to dare to cross boundaries or to see the larger context. 899 01:33:24,474 --> 01:33:31,562 Only for those prepared to leave their familiar life behind 900 01:33:31,648 --> 01:33:34,856 will life emerge in a new gown 901 01:33:34,943 --> 01:33:39,061 of continually expanding beauty and perfection. 902 01:33:42,408 --> 01:33:45,900 But in order to attain such a state, 903 01:33:45,995 --> 01:33:48,611 it is necessary to achieve stillness 904 01:33:48,706 --> 01:33:50,992 in both thought 905 01:33:51,084 --> 01:33:53,325 and feeling. 906 01:37:40,897 --> 01:37:44,981 Whether thinking about electrons, or kandinsky, or painting, 907 01:37:45,068 --> 01:37:48,560 the only thing that really interests us is: 908 01:37:48,696 --> 01:37:52,735 "Who am I? How can I find myself?" 909 01:37:52,867 --> 01:37:57,076 You find yourself by reflecting and working on it, becoming self-aware. 910 01:37:57,163 --> 01:38:01,577 You'll find yourself in the end. As in my favorite quote from novalis: 911 01:38:01,667 --> 01:38:06,536 "Where are we really going? Always home."