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I have been creating in different media for the last 25 years. They all affected me and became inseparable part of my work. I am not painter, illustrator, designer or conceptual artist … my medium is everything what I can use; but lately painting and illustration in the sense of enlightening the reality. It is only a tool/expression I use in a given moment. A clear goal is very important in communication because it enables the recipient to receive the message in the intended form, not subjectively and full of individual interpretations.
Visual communication in connected to our consciousness and creativity. I am incorporating knowledge of my personal research in my lectures and in my art work. Good communication is the base of our reality or better said a creation of reality.
Black book is the first picture from the serial of paintings about human search for purpose in life. It all began with an old Persian story written by Nizami Ganjavi in 1197, ”Seven Beauties”, the adventures of Bahram Gur, a prince destined to become the ruler of the world. Seven Beauties is a literary classic in both the East and West - an erotic allegory about the quest for human perfection. Book unveiling ancient knowledge from sufism and Zoroastrian/Mithrean mythology. Nizami wrote the most perfect literary expression of the scheme of the Seven Colours. In his romance of spiritual initiation, the Haft Paykar he equated the seven colours of the universe with the seven metals, the worlds seven climes, the seven planetary spheres, the seven days of the week, and the seven tinctures of the soul. The origins of Nizami’s seven - tinged perception of the universe went back very far. They may be traced to ancient Mesopotamian cosmologies.
So I began with black Indian story, about first physical stage of development, which I am was converting into contemporary life and form, to picture contemporary mixture of old and new. I was combining old Indian illumination with a modern visual storytelling in a form of paintings and graphic book. Discovering darkness and facing my own fear of black colour. I concur it so I am ready for the YELLOW about fillings and senses and it is yellow and gold which I am doing now.