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Like a Horse Prepared for Battle, acrylic on canvas, 2021
The expression and body language of this swift horse with lightning-fast reflexes, communicates the wonder caused by viewer’s sudden presence. Physically refined, it is shown as jumping for joy (horse can jump 8 ft 1.25 or 2.47 m). This wonder horse, having high energy, is very powerful due to its strong muscles and leg structure. The author “immortalies” this waltzing horse on the very crust of the earth which hides a fiery maze beneath.
Stationary Movement, acrylic on canvas, 2021
In eternity, the human existence will “acquire an ev- er-moving repose and a stationary movement”. This sig- nifies the existential freedom from every necessity of mo- tion or repose, the realization of existence as relation, the freedom of love as the mode of the fullness of existence. “A stationary movement that is simultaneously eternal- ly-moving stasis, presupposes that outside of this is the Other in whom room is found: movement turns toward God and is stationary in Him. Stasis is also eternal- ly-moving, because it is not exhausted in its limits, but turns out of itself.” (St. Maximus the Confessor)
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