ART of Leonard Rubins

“ I have been put at the disposal of the rich and fertile soil. Inhaling of this world in plenty. Becoming aware of my time and the victory of tomorrow… I, the forgotten bird, am sending greetings to people of good will. Let my visual message travel around the wide world, that I have been eavesdropping for many years, and let it return enriched into the nesting grounds of domestic love.
From you to me, the river of life is flowing. From me to you, let my thoughts of goodness embraced in the conglomerate of yearnings. My burning heart, born out of this world, is offering itself to the vanishing time, for use and wear. Through the pain and enigmas, through assignments and strength, I am constructing my real and virtual worlds with joy, and offering them in all their intimacy … to myself as well …”

Tractate on the Ordinary Man – Part I.

Leonard Rubins does not wonder any longer whether he is in possession of the information useful to the world, that he would very much like to transform with his ideas. His creations show the joys of everyman in the world of potential and not primarily strive for success.

Rubins has created this and he saw that it was good.

But the reality of this world has not yet given him enough courage towards himself, and therefore, Rubins is using imaginary tools. Nevertheless, he lives merely that, what wants to go out from him by itself. Why is it then sometimes so difficult for Rubins? Has he perhaps already become happy and realized, but is not yet aware of it? And he is naively waiting for a miraculous event, that would somehow transform him and save him from the burden – to be someone else?

Does he not know, that being called to life is already a miracle? Or maybe Rubins believes that living day by day is only a rough sketch for something more intense and more vast. Maybe this is his only mistake.
Finding that Rubins is not present enough in the destiny of the world, is not enough. His exoteric spiritual yearning lives through the messages in his art. The content of his work often talks about stories that are too late or premature, and in them Rubins likes to name himself as: Comrade Unplugged, Mister Tomorrow or Darko the Too late… Does he then not speak in his own words at the right time or place, or offer his hands to the world, that is silently waiting for his rebirth?
But Rubins also knows that there is a solution – the possibility for differences and a change of everything gray and vague. No one who is a free man is not condemned to a life of his ancestor’s ideology. Rubins knows that, at the end of his days, he will not say:”I’ve lingered on.”… but “I’ve lived!” He is bravely abandoning the symbols of his personal beliefs and the archetypes of the nation that he belongs to.
Ignorance is the greatest sin of ordinary man and solution he seeks, lays in experience. Faith is good, but just not enough. Words age good, but don’t teach Rubins nothing!
In order to posses true knowledge, he is yearning for his own, personal experience. He believes that the only solution to the imaginary ideologies, is the Self-Aware experience, as a true guarantee, that reveals the world in all his ambivalent unity.
Rubins is aware that he might not be redeem and not cursed either. He believes that he will not perish somewhere in the unaccomplished as an Ordinary Man.

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Dan sem zemlji rodovitni na razpolago. Vdihujem ta svet, spoznavam svoj čas in zmago jutrišnjega dne … Jaz, zapozneli ptič, pozdravljam ljudi dobre volje. Po širnem svetu, ki mu prisluškujem že mnogo let, naj potuje moje sporočilo in se oplemeniteno vrača v domače gnezdišče ljubezni.
Od tebe k meni teče reka življenja. Od mene k vam sega moja misel, zaobjeta v konglomerat hrepenenj. Svet, ki je rodil moje goreče srce, ga ponuja minljivemu času v uporabo in obrabo. Skozi bolečine in uganke, skozi odgovornost in moč, radostno gradim realne in virtualne svetove, ki jih ponujam v vsej svoji intimi – tudi samemu sebi…
Razprava o sleherniku – I.del.
Leonard Rubins se v svojem sporočilu ne sprašuje, ali razpolaga s koristno informacijo za svet, ki bi ga tako rad po svoje predrugačil. Njegova stvaritev kaže slehernikove radosti v možnih svetovih in ne stremi prvenstveno po uspehu. Rubins je ustvaril to in videl, da je dobro.
A realnost tega sveta Rubinsu še ni podaril poguma do samega sebe, zato si ga mora umišljati. Kljub temu živi le tisto, kar hoče iz njega samo po sebi. Zakaj je potem Rubinsu včasih tako težko? Mar je že postal srečen in osmišljen, pa se tega še ne zaveda? In naivno čaka čudežnega dogodka, ki ga bo nekoč predrugačil in odrešil bremena – biti – nekdo drug? Mar ne ve, da je čudež že to, da je v življenje poklican. Ali mar Rubins meni, da je vsakdan, ki ga živi le osnutek za nekaj intenzivnejšega in bolj prostranega? Mogoče je to njegova edina zabloda.
Ugotovitev, da je Rubins premalo deležen v “usodi” sveta ni dovolj. Svoje pozunanjeno duhovno hrepenenje živi skozi sporočila v slikah. V njih neizpolnjeno govori o prepoznih ali prezgodnjih zgodbah in sebe rad poimenuje; tovariš Nevključeni, gospod Jutri ali Darko Prepozni, … Ali zato ne govori v svojih besedah ob pravem času, ne razpre svojih rok svetu, ki nemo čaka njegov preporod?
A Rubins tudi ve, da obstaja rešitev – možnost za drugačnost in spremembo vsega, kar je sivo in mlačno. Nihče, kdor je svoboden, ni obsojen na bivanjske nazore svojih očetov. Rubins ve, da ob koncu dni ne bo rekel: “Životaril sem,” temveč “Živel sem!” Pogumno opušča simbole osebnih prepričanj in arhetipov naroda, ki mu pripada.
Nevednost je največji slehernikov greh in rešitev išče v spoznanju. Verovanje je dobro, a ne zadostuje. Besede so dobre, a Rubinsa ne poučijo o ničemer!
Da bi posedoval pravo spoznanje, hrepeni po svojem osebnem doživetju. Verjame, da mu rešitev pred namišljenimi ideologijami ponuja edino, samozavedujoča se izkušnja. Spoznanje, kot resnično jamstvo, da odkrije svet v njegovi ambivalentni enotnosti.
Rubins se zaveda, da mogoče ne bo odrešen, a tudi ne preklet. Verjame, da ne bo, kot slehernik, izgubljen nekje v nedokončanem.