Year 2009
Artist's Inspiration : The painting aspires to be a philosophical allegory of the tragic human condition, accursed by Man’s reflective consciousness that has shadowed His existence since time immemorial.
He crouches in resigned acknowledgement of His predicament, condemned to being an indeterminate and ambiguous entity that cannot be truly liberated in His animalistic corporeality which His self-consciousness demands to negate, nor be fully actualized in transcendental being. Man can live only as an appearance of temporal possibilities, a continual process of self-surpassing, a twisted rope of fictional reason convoluted by the opposing forces of Animal and Self-awareness. It is precisely this continual self-negation that His existence is predicated upon, an infernal curse that even centuries of civilization offer no protection against.
This internal struggle is evident in the pervading sense of disenfranchisement in the individual and sporadic pockets of societal violence around the world today, manifestations of Man’s innate need to destroy and reinvent Him-self, a Sisyphean task that Man is bound by, even as His shadow of self-consciousness struggles to escape, to transcend….
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