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ARTWORKS
art is the ultimate mental activity
requiring absolute focus
challenging the mind and the heart
expecting rebellion
each piece is linked to another
in a certain hierarchy
regarding the meaning it bears
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THE ESSENCE OF EVERYTHING
(ink & gold on paper)
"Perhaps we shall be able to overtake that elusive feeling of absurdity in the different but closely related worlds of intelligence, of the art of living, or of art itself. The climate of absurdity is in the beginning. The end is the absurd universe and that attitude of mind which lights the world with its true colors to bring out the privileged and implacable visage which that attitude has discerned in it."
Camus, Albert. (2005). The Myth of Sisyphus. 18th Ed. Suffolk: Penguin Books, p.10-11.
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APATHEIA
(ink & gold on paper)
"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion ... It is according to opinion that we suffer."
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. (1917). Moral Epistles Volume-II. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Ep2-189.
&
an innuendo to,
The Rape of Proserpina,
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (1622).
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TRICKING CHARON
(ink & gold on paper)
"Death is not an event in life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. (1922). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., p.88.
greatly inspired by;
Toten Insel (Isle of the Dead)
Third Version,
Arnold Böcklin, (1883),
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
+
Isle of the Dead Op.29,
Symphonic Poem,
Sergei Rachmaninoff, (1908).
1.1.3
THE PANTHEON
(ink & gold on paper)
"To reawaken conscience
in peoples' hearts,
to gather up the tears
of the oppressed and of the suffering,
to nake the world a pantheon,
to change men into gods,
and with a single kiss,
to love all mankind!"
from the aria Nemico Della Patria,
André Cheniér, Umberto Giordano, (1896).
&
La Muse d'André Cheniér,
Denys Puech, (1888).
1.2
END OF ALL THINGS
(ink & gold on paper)
ending of;
Elégie Op.3 No.1, Sergei Rachmaninoff, (1892).
1.3
THE ABSURD
(oil on canvas)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-minor, Op. 18,
First Movement,
Sergei Rachmaninoff, (1901).
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