Inner conflict

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Poster created for video festival Conflicts, exhibited in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro. The festival was organized by Itaú Cultural.

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Würden Sie mir bitte sagen, welchen Weg ich von hier aus gehen?« »Das hängt ein gutes Stück auf, in dem Sie erhalten möchten" "Ich weiß nicht viel Pflege, wo -". "Dann ist es egal, im Wunderland von Lewis Carroll, Alice - welchen Weg Sie gehen. "

My most recent concern artistically is with how we experience the visual world. I believe we see fragments and focus randomly on the impressions we encounter. Images and movement are viewed not purely in a sequential animation but more in the manner of a jigsaw that our brain works instantaneously to join up and make sense of. In my current work I am unpicking this process and aiming to show the viewer the world as they truly see it.

Christian Edler's self-portraits hint at an inner conflict brewing within the artist's psyche. Edler uses his own likeness for surrealist visual experiments, painting himself with various mutations that explore the battles we have with ourselves. In one work, Edler's face multiplies over and over, creating a web of mouths, fingers, and eye sockets that seems bent on destroying itself. In another piece, he collapses face down in resignation, his face cracking like a ceramic vase. Other works…

Osho writes, “One who is full of inner conflict cannot find a resolution.” The spiritual leader speaks of resolving inner conflict and finding peace with Arjuna’s example. #Soulveda #Osho #InnerPeace #Arjuna #InnerConflict #Spirituality #Peace

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Though Athens, Greece-based artist Constantine Lianos creates mostly figurative work, he insists that it in no way is meant to be realistic. Instead, his dark, monochromatic drawings and paintings are created entirely from his imagination. "The painting process is for me the ultimate introspection process, where the rational and the emotional are inseparable, where the method meets the random," writes Lianos in his statement. Sometimes humorous and sometimes disturbing, each character in his…

Attempting to Meditate "At first, your mind will be filled with thoughts..." ~ From The Universal Possibility of Meditation / Deng Ming-Dao

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