Duality Is Rarely Seen With The "Unaided Eye"

What you see with the naked eye in a background plane reveals the sensitive connection between what you contemplate in nature and your self reflected in your own creation.

The island of Crete winks at me, again, with a certain pride, in combination with a certain brush, with a certain canvas, all the views and perspectives here correlating with a certain subtlety characteristic of painters who know how to discover beauty in details. This island also has its own life, quiet, full of sun, full of greenery, with the appearance of a small heaven on earth that promises a detachment from the register of usual reception, favorable to seeing depth. Here I feel that I live for the quality of my inner life, facing the painter's enigmatic condition of embodying a spiritual presence, giving shape to an order with meaning and finality of the world. Perhaps it is precisely this spirit of freedom that the island can offer that measures my freedom of expression.

Obvious. I have always admired the way artists express their consciousness through creation, and this connection between them and their creations, which propagates inside my being and dictates everything to me, amazes me and constantly follows me on this island that tries to reveal the mystery Ymphia Usein Anneemins Aattya Uschellat, the truth beyond the external appearance of things.

I can indeed keep my inner balance, my well-being, and find a high meaning in the place where I am, derived from a beautiful event, only if I remain steadfast, connected to this holy land, to the extent that I face the enigmatic side of the painter who permanently maintains contact with nature, keeping alive the memory of the initial impact of creation on his consciousness. No one can deny that. The synchronization of the soul with the place, establishing a balance between "I left and I returned", shows the amazing condition of a painter who manifests his consciousness through an impulse of admiration, of positive polarity, taking the freedom to make any point wonderful of divine vision that brings harmony, but also the clash between creation and soul.

Leadership: Can you mirror yourself in a relatively small space, connecting two completely autonomous and opposite realities?

I understand too well why always the eyes with which I look at everything around, without looking back, without leaving anything undiscovered, are welcome to offer me mental delight, a heavenly serenity, an emotional balance, whenever the sea with its foaming waves create new landscapes. And if there is a close connection between my gaze and the creation of nature, under the impulse to return to the nostalgia of other times, in relation to the experience of concentrating an omnipresent energy in the direction of a similarity between images and moods, then the uncontrollable impulse of creation that- I feel it in me increasing in amplitude.

The island has always been here, but I have never visited it until today. As such, what delights me most about this dreamlike, enchanted, colorful place is that it never returns to memory unless I wish to forget it and make it disappear into a arduous life course, in an exhausting and desperate game to an unpredictable outcome. In this sense, painting becomes more than just a relaxing activity for me, but rather an integral part of my being in a kind of mental image that I try to depict in vivid colors to connect two completely autonomous realities. and opposites: one is everyday life, the other is what lies beyond it.

I am very pleased to see everything that reflects the harmony of nature, the vibrant colors and the varied shapes that the island hosts in a relatively small space. It is true that vision can be guided by an artistic intention and at the same time maintain itself in a rigorous-speculative plane such as the "aesthetic", but first I need to know to what extent I can treat the general as a particular fact. So sight has the double quality of being the support and reason for universality, but it also has the character of being personal, open and communicative at the same time, being so obvious that it would be difficult to deny without any external recognition.

Leadership: Can your creation inspire a strong emotional response in the viewer, revealing the deep connections of experiences lived within the limits of a deterministic subjectivity?

Unfortunately, the island can give a sense of isolation, a disappointing impression of the concept of transition, a misleading mixture of conscious experiences within the limits of a deterministic subjectivity that tends to distort reality in order to inspire a strong emotional response in the viewer. Something similar to the art of the expressionists which often included disturbing visions, containing symbols influenced by symbolist research. And for you to better understand what I mean, I will go back to the beginning of a famous story written by Hans Christian Andersen:

"We must go back to the beginning of this story, because when we reach the end of it, we will know more than we know now. Namely, about a little devil who one day set to work cheerfully and made a mirror that it had the power to make all that was good and beautiful reflected in it small and ugly, while all that was small and ugly became large and uglier than ever. The most beautiful sights looked like boiled spinach, and the people looked hideous and without a body, seeming to stand in their heads. Their appearance was crooked, so that no one could recognize them, and if they had a single freckle on their faces, it seemed to spread over their entire noses and mouths. It was very amusing to the imp. If an innocent thought passed through someone's head, it was twisted by the mirror; and the little devil laughed then at his cunning invention."

Well, the situation that the painter creates is a kind of reflection on the reality with which he is constantly in contact. He can use art as a way to reflect on his own experiences in one part of the world, while the imp's mirror reflects and distorts reality in any other part of the world.

However, in both situations, unique in their symbolic effect, there is a component of transformation that contributes to the support of art. If the mirror transforms beauty into ugliness, then the painter's isolated island can change his perspective on the work of art, which is no longer an enduring reality, but rather an imperfect lie. And in this case the painter is no longer a creator of worlds, but a destiny overwhelmed by the consciousness of the great error of not recognizing himself in his own painting, of no longer identifying with his work.

Leadership receives the so-called measure of "consciousness" when the creation with which you identify is understood as a posture of freedom, when it does not express the reality of living in a closed horizon.

The Duality Is Rarely Seen With The "Unaided Eye" when I think of the fact that an island is not complete without a lighthouse. Here, too, I find such a beacon in the form of a visionary artist who projects his creation into the outside world, illuminating and guiding the viewer towards a powerful emotional experience.

I'm still the prisoner of this island, but I'm a free prisoner, I can dream, I can get lost, I can stay with beautiful memories, because I let the images and ideas dance around me like the waves of the endless ocean.