“ILLUSIONS. OPEN YOUR EYES” 2019, made for Glo’ Art Collection, Belgium
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Animation (17 sec), handpainted in oil on canvas, which depicts the male character with the bandage on his eyes which he takes off and then puts back on.
From the ancient times and the old philosophical traditions we have the idea that the world around us is a Maya – an illusion. Nowadays with all the virtual reality and the advanced technologies that make human race develop in a progressive speed and in somehow delusional ways, that idea of the world as a deception is so much clearer and closer to accept.
Everybody has illusions, the only question is: are we aware of them or not. And when we become aware, who will be willing to get out of the illusion, and in which way?
Is this world just a dream, and we are making it up, or maybe it’s making us up?
The eyes covered with the bandage in the video are the metaphor for closing eyes in front of the deception. Disclosure is possible, but not everybody is willing to confront it, since it requires the further development and especially change. The constant change is a premise of Maya.