Superficial vs. Inner Beauty - Portrait Painting Series & Food for Thought
What is Beauty?
I am sad, I am desperate. I am happy, crazy and adventurous. I am tired and discouraged. I envy you and I hate you. I love you and I need you to be alive. I AM HUMAN!
We are living in a radiant time. Dazzled by the beauty and perfection of the people in our mobile devices, we put on our sunglasses. The light is only reflected from the surface. It is a fallacy, because it does not warm us.
We are constantly confronted with an artificial image of reality in which happiness, beauty and success count more than their opposites. One is desirable, but the other is not. The one-sided focus on the seemingly positive, however, does not help us to understand the entirity of our being. The world is polar. We are light and shadow, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, confidence and hopelessness. We should be proud of this diversity, because it is our very own personal journey.
Each person, a composition through which the universe is singing.
The Abstract Mind
The portraits of the series "The Abstract Mind" deal with the essence behind our outer appearance. They are explorations through the dark forests and sunny plateaus of the human existence. The fine, inexpressible nuances of our being are what true beauty is made out of. An explosive power, invisible to the eye.
The American psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross sums this up very nicely by saying: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Beauty is understanding, care and realization. It arises from within and if it is truthful, it transforms into love on the outside. Your mirror is the person you touch. See, how beautiful you are!
