Miniature calligraphy

Today, major ecological, social, political and economic upheavals have engendered a sense of fear in modern man who now wonders where the next prophecy of catastrophe will emerge. Will the apocalypse really happen?  For most, this term signifies the ultimate demise and destruction of the world but it does not mean this for Jean-Luc Leguay, who re-analyses the meaning and symbolism of the apocalypse using a selection of masterfully illuminated manuscripts. Do these objects, in fact, reveal divine secrets and the future destiny of mankind? What if they concern man’s coming internal revelation and new levels of reality? Our talker is as keen to reveal their meaning as he is to illuminate our souls.

In this 42-minute talk, Jean-Luc Leguay evokes the osmosis between word and light and how it manifests in manuscript illumination. Previously a choreographer, the author retraces his personal path for us and looks at the reasons that led him to endure a 10-year initiation by a Franciscan hermit monk into the practise of this pictorial art.

The invisible is hidden in the visible An invitation for all to become aware of the full potential they received at birth. “What we call a way is hesitation”, wrote Kafka. Starting with this quote, Jean-Luc Leguay suggests we should be ‘reborn from on high’ and focus on the vertical axis.
Following in the footsteps of the cathedral builders, who only started to lay down the foundations of their edifices once the keystone had been established, we are invited here to consider that if we know where we are going to, we are able to create our lives. This is how the future determines the present... and not the other way around.