Title: Split
Category: uncanny/unsettling
("Split", charcoal, colored pencils, acryliс on paper, 70x100 cm, 2015)
What my work is about? It's about human psyche being complex and inconsistent. Even for seemingly healthy person it is normal that his or hers personality combines many self-contradictory tendencies and behavior patterns, part of which we may not be aware of.
For example, many of us, if asked whether they want to be rich, will answer "yes, of course", but if we take a good look at our own behaviour we can see many thought and behavior patterns that are actually pushing us away from wealth (some attitudes like living for profit is immoral, or fear that big wealth is dangerous, or whatever else).
Another example, an acquaintance of mine, wants to get married so much, but at the same time always speaks negatively about men, like all men only cause problems. It's quite difficult to get into really happy relationships, which she dreams about, with such attitude... And so on, and so on.
Intensity of our inner conflicts can be different: sometimes, as a result, we just move towards our goals more slowly (and may not ever reach them if our inner unconscious destructive tendencies are constantly pushing us away from them), and sometimes it does have an unhealthy effect on our psyche and we are literally being torn by stress, leading to, for example, neurotic disorders.
My work serves to remind that human personality at its basic formation is not whole (we can talk about quantum psychology or theory of subpersonalities within one person). Awareness of that fact can become a starting point for overcoming this unwholeness on the way to yourself, your core, inner self and a more pure self-realization.
For example, many of us, if asked whether they want to be rich, will answer "yes, of course", but if we take a good look at our own behaviour we can see many thought and behavior patterns that are actually pushing us away from wealth (some attitudes like living for profit is immoral, or fear that big wealth is dangerous, or whatever else).
Another example, an acquaintance of mine, wants to get married so much, but at the same time always speaks negatively about men, like all men only cause problems. It's quite difficult to get into really happy relationships, which she dreams about, with such attitude... And so on, and so on.
Intensity of our inner conflicts can be different: sometimes, as a result, we just move towards our goals more slowly (and may not ever reach them if our inner unconscious destructive tendencies are constantly pushing us away from them), and sometimes it does have an unhealthy effect on our psyche and we are literally being torn by stress, leading to, for example, neurotic disorders.
My work serves to remind that human personality at its basic formation is not whole (we can talk about quantum psychology or theory of subpersonalities within one person). Awareness of that fact can become a starting point for overcoming this unwholeness on the way to yourself, your core, inner self and a more pure self-realization.
Sometimes a person likes the idea of something; marriage, family, a high paying job; better than the reality of it. Great work and ideas to go with it.
Thank you! Yes, I agree with you.
woww , love ittt
🤓😍
Thanks! :)
This is so creepy looking. Love it.
Thank you!
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