Borislav Dimitrov’ Fine Art Portfolio Fine art works pyrography on paper Pyrograffiti on Cultural Phenomenology of Literature

1. Borislav Dimitrov’ Fine Art Portfolio Pyrograffiti on Cultural Phenomenology of Literature Fine art works pyrography on paper http://www.behance.net/borisart www.borislav.comuv.com/art.html . "Our eyes demand their turn" James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (FW 52)

2. “ The medium is the message” - Marshall McLuhan

3. My name is Borislav Dimitrov and I am a lawyer and artist. My specific appreciation of art and avocation as v isual artist is based on my interests in literature and philosophy. My works are conceptual art exploring the interaction between image and text, simultaneous nature of communication as perception of qualia moments and experience. I am interested in the interpretation of the visual language and contemporary reads of artifacts of consciousness and myths of my heritage produced the series of engravings as Thrace Fabulous (Thracian Orphism), the series Epic of Gilgamesh , the series The Legend of the Golem . The influence for other series comes from contemporary content as works of Marshal McLuhan, cubist poetry of Kenneth Rexroth and the art of Norman McLaren (series Anastomosis ), the deconstructivist though of Jacques Derrida and the architects as Bernard Tshumi and Louis Khan, the hypertext novel Hopscotch of Julio Cortasar.

4. My most recent project is based on James Joyce’s novels Finnegans Wake ( Icon O Graphing “Finnegans Wake” ) and Ulysses ( Little Engraving Review On James Joyce’ novel “Ulysses” ). Having longstanding interest and work in progress’ pleasure and experience of reading and researching Joyce, between the unmentionable trivialities routine I have completed a cycle of engravings and oil paintings on the Wake. Icon o graphing in visual fable James Joyce ’ novel Finnegans Wake comes to share love and passion extracted from the core of an Joycecentric universe and explore the Wake as experience of the eye on the mindís ear. Iconography of the sound of FW comes to impulse the brotherhood of Earweakers (Joyce ’ hero HCE as Here Comes Everybody) into the journey of the Eyeweakers and James Joyce as the great Eyeweaker itself. Visualizing Joyce's Meander Tale FW my artistic attempt is to translate his portmanteau words as portmanteau images, to envisage polyphonic phrasing and represent the visual assonance of FW echolalia, to explore the iconography of double-talk, infixes, auditory rhymes as qualia of the "messes of mottage" (FW 183). Following Joyceí suggestion to read FW a laud (coded in his text „Ope Eustace tube!” (FW 535-26) is my mission to find the Eustace tube of the eye and “ listen ” the image of the sound. I would appreciate a brief review on my art works devoted to the Joyce’ novel at http:// www.borislav.comuv.com/FW.html .

5. You could find my "Icon O Graphing Finnegans Wake" listed under Finnegans Wake article in Wikipedia Web as visual fable based on James Joyce’s novel "Finnegans Wake" by Toronto artist Boris Dimitrov. The project is lited under the Bulgarian version of James Joyce article at Wikipedia - Борислав Димитров : Икон -о- графия на "Бдение на Финеган " , The drawing as semiotic reading - Рисуването като семиотично четене ...Проектът „Икон-о-графия на Бдение над Финеган” e визуална басня върху произведението на Джеймс Джойс „Бдение над Финеган”, представена от един по-читател на Джойс. Arte, filosofía, creación. Un búlgaro en Toronto. ¡Imprescindible! - "Icon O Graphing Finnegans Wake" commented by the Spanish magazine for Literature and Art LUKE ( http://www.espacioluke.com/ ) – "Tablon de anuncios": El blog imprescindible Miércoles 2 de Marzo de 2005 - Arte, filosofía, creación. Un búlgaro en Toronto. ¡Imprescindible! Boutique Exhibition of Fine Art Engravings - Visual Fable On James Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake" - March 21, 2005 - by Toronto’s resident artist Boris Dimitrov, Timothy’s, 801 Bay Street, Toronto, Just On Bay and College! James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake on Bay

6. The project “ The Epic of Gilgamesh ” is inspired by the book of William Irwin Thompson – “ Coming into Being - Artefacts and Texts in Relation to Consciousness ”. William Irwin Thompson is a social philosopher , cultural historian and cultural critic , professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at York University in Toronto . W.I. Thompson made significant contributions to cultural history , social criticism , the philosophy of science , and the study of myth . He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind- jazz on ancient texts". I this sense my art works are an attempt for “eye mind – jazz on Cultural Phenomenology of Literature ”. Thompson moved to Canada, teaching at Toronto's York University from 1967-1973. While there he was exposed to the work of such thinkers as Canadian media theorist Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), author of The Mechanical Bride (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy (1967) and Understanding Media (1971) . Thompson considers fellow Irishman James Joyce 's novel Finnegans Wake to be "the ultimate novel, indeed, the ultimate book," and also to be the climactic artistic work of the modern period and of the rational mentality. Thompson engages a diverse set of traditions, including the complex systems thought of Ralph Abraham , and the novels of Thomas Pynchon .

7. Cultural Phenomenology of Literature W.I. Thompson and the mathematician Ralph Abraham designed a new type of cultural history curriculum based on their theories about the evolution of consciousness. W.I. Thompson developed a theory that there were five archetypal literary and mathematical mentalities in cultural history from the Ice Age to the present. These mentalities are based upon a configuration, in which objects are articulated in a constructed space, and a configuration of time, a narrative, in which identities are unfolded. The former is a world, the latter, a self. The Arithmetic (Ancient) - The Geometric (Classical) - The Algebraic (Medieval) - The Galilean Dynamical (Modern) - The Complex Dynamical (Contemporary) The Literary Milestones of the Arithmetic Mentality are - Formative: Sumerian, “Inanna’s Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech” Th e work shows the archetypal and generative power of the list ; Dominant: “Inanna’s Descent into the Netherworld.” This work shows the cultural shift from village agriculture to the city-state in which a priestly class develops astronomy as a mythopoeic system of knowledge ; Climactic: The Gilgamesh Cycle, both the Sumerian cycle, and the Akkadian epic.

8. The Gilgamesh epic shows the war of the sexes and the tension between matristic systems of prehistoric authority and charismatic military leadership with its new heroic system of values. The Literary Milestones of the Galilean Dynamical Mentality are - Formative: Lazarillo de Tormes, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Descartes’s Discourse on Method. The picaresque narrative celebrates the new non-heroic individualism of the common man, and shows life as a process of learning a new science and wisdom through trial and error ; - Dominant: Faust with all versions as performances of the European myth. Faust shows man challenging sacerdotal authority to gain power over nature, which is the dominant scientific myth of modernism. Melville’s Moby-Dick goes back to the Gilgamesh epic in its vision of male bonding and slaying the beast of nature ; - Climactic : James Joyce’s Ulysses is a conscious recapitulation of literary history, from the Homeric epic to the modern novel, and a brilliant performance of the shift from the linear narrative of a single hero to the complex dynamical system of an ecology of consciousness – a movement that he completes with Finnegans Wake. T he Complex Dynamical Mentality arises in Paris in 1889 with Poincaré .

9. Artist Statement The source of my artistic influence is literature and philosophy discourse. Drawing is like semiotic reading. According to the social semiotic theory of representation, the grammar of visual design is like the linguistic structures, visual structures point to particular interpretations of experience and forms of social interaction. Color is a semiotic resource. The text is not exclusively black and white anymore or situated in linearly configured blocks. The colors, shapes, sizes, fonts, and positions of letters and words on Web sites, environmental signs, magazines, and textbooks reflect our changing society, creating images that did not exist 20 years ago. Computers and other technology have changed our concepts of time and space, and they have altered the way that we participate in many activities (Gee, 2003). With the increased amount of visual information, semiotics researchers have emphasized that communication is multimodal; people are reading not only written words, but also images.

10. Relevant Education: Open Studio, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104, Toronto, Ontario - Etching class of Prof. Pawel Zablocki and printmaking workshops (2004) National School of Art, Photography and Printing, Sofia, Bulgaria, Professional qualification and diploma in Etching (1977-1981) Art Show and Exhibition: Solo and group exhibition in Europe and North America, works are represented in private and corporate collections.