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PAINTINGS 2015-2022

'The Long Walk of the creator'

"...some of us are more stone than others, yet most of us are chipping away as we can handle it. Still, there are yet others who have resigned themselves to becoming petrified monoliths, to be excavated at a later date. What is the decision… for you?"

'Veer'

"...The society that we know will have need of us, not needs that are met by us, just as its infinite tendrils will ever be reaching toward us from the deep. Whether it wishes to again groom us into compliance, imitation or rebellion is of no consequence to it.."

'Prelude No.2'

"..Is hate one of the feelings that we find on the seabed, beneath the waves and far from air? Or is it a feeling we take to the depths inside of us, and does not the water eventually choke it from those of us who are committed to our dive? Do we hate them for the state they left us in?"

'The Mind'

"...since our first breath of air above the surface of the waves, we have been taught to transact emotional currency, nests of symbols in our brains, like ravenous larvae, since infancy. Through hope for reaching “The Top”, we would become the user to survive our climb to glory. We would believe much more in the delusion that all resources accumulate toward us. Sanity and humanity are both forsaken in a bargain such as this..."

'Envoi'

"We are nearing our fading. Despite our clever imitations, we are not spared the force-feeding of their reality. We begin to realize that in imitation, we have not succeeded in loosening their grasp; instead, we feel their fingers even tighter around our throats..."

'Veil's Fall'

"...now comes the stage where they need us to understand their suffering through our own experience. The circle is not complete until we break and therefore render them the satisfaction due for their sacrifices. In the death of our character and ensuing ‘un-life’, their existence would be justified. We struggle, but burrow deeper still. At some point we forget we are pretending..."

'Solipsism'

"...our eyes and mind are with Pride, and for everything we do not see, there is another thing we’ve seen and misunderstand. The tide ebbs and flows at the behest of society, but it is also its own master, for society itself could not still the water. Pressed into a shape beyond hate, they numbly carry out their duty of birthing lives in order to reclaim spirits..."

'The plunge into narcissism'

"...Tether and skin gradually fuse together. They feed information into our very cells, calling for us to modify, convincing us that every fragment of our loveliness we sacrifice is for the ideal, which exists to us now as an apparition above questions, especially our own. Our faith thus shielded, we make ourselves appear more humane..."

'Vanity's Ballade'

"... dialogue filled with compliments and grand gestures greeted us at this new beginning that was also an end after just a few steps. Reaching for our hand to lead us to success, reaching for our eyes that we may see and manifest our heaven, reaching into our heart to fill us with longing, flooding our mind with soothing rationale, they make us an offer..."

'Prelude'

"...our vessels and minds are classically pure, but stone-like. For a time, we will believe our wants are their wants, their loves are our loves, and that every feeling that emerges from within us—passion, loneliness, happiness, despair—are truly ours and not the product of our only influences: the waves..."

'Grounded'

"...Not everyone's past has to be their current present, nor does it has to be their future..."

Fountain of Love

'Ressurection'

"A longing of one man's treasure that has been yearning his whole life for. Slowly taking a major step in commencing dreaming again..."

'Resonance'

"A love ripple in the water that we are surrounded by, a resonance. Creating a bridge around connections and feelings that we can all feel..."

'Self'

" It was a drop of water in an oasis of not physically creating artwork. Only my mind constantly creating loops of visual pieces of my scenarios that were happening around me, like a broken projector that still has the film on repeat..."

'Feelings'

Trust

Mind

Choices

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PAINTINGS 2015-2022

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