BP1039 Lecture of Rhythm

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BP1039 Lecture of Rhythm
by Uri Hofi

Rhythm is inseparable from life. Everything we do in life or what nature does is connected with rhythm. Everything is done with its own rhythm. Perhaps just to say: THE RHYTHM WHICH IS RIGHT FOR IT! The rotation of the earth around the sun and around itself. The day and the night depend on this and the 9 months for birth, and the seasons of the year. Walking, writing, music and dance. From this it results that rhythm is also time! Right rhythm is right time. When we create a form during the process of forging, that is with the aid of the hammer and anvil we are striking with a very specific rhythm (each one has his own rhythm). In practice, the form contains the rhythm and it is also possible to say that form is rhythm or that rhythm is also form. If we forge the form with the right rhythm and in the right time, the right form is obtained. If one is working on a certain form in less time than required we obtain a lesser form. If we work on the form with a greater time than would be right we obtain a figure - which is extra or overdone. The form, the rhythm and the time are actually one thing which cannot be separated. All of this is also connected with the amount of energy invested in producing a certain form. If all of the three things mentioned above are right then the amount of energy invested for it is the minimum necessary for producing the form. And thus the form is natural and not forced. One feels in the form the strength in modesty. When too much energy is invested in producing this form it shows quite clearly. Actually this can be expressed mathematically: Form = Energy divided by (Time x Rhythm)

That is, when investing a certain amount of energy with a minimum rhythm and time, one gets a maximum form. There is great beauty and strength in economizing which receives its expression in the form itself. Hofi