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<p><strong><em>" Watching time going by. " by </em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on paper, 66 x 88 cm</strong></em></p>

Watching time going by.
<p><strong><em>" Lone hunting" by </em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on paper, 66 x 88 cm</strong></em></p>

Lone hunting
<p><strong><em>" Facing the flight of time" by </em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on paper, 66 x 88 cm</strong></em></p>

Facing the flight of time
<p><strong><em>" Das Glück der Frau hängt ab von Phall zu Phall"  by </em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on paper, 66 x 88 cm</strong></em></p>

Das Glück der Frau hängt ab von Phall zu Phall
<table class="fileinfotpl-type-information toccolours vevent mw-content-ltr" style="width: 100%; direction: ltr;" border="0" cellpadding="4"> <tbody> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td id="fileinfotpl_desc" class="fileinfo-paramfield" lang="en"><span class="summary fn" style="display: none;">Mes cliques et mes claques.jpg</span></td> <td class="description"> <p><em><strong>"Mes cliques et mes claques" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Love and hate can be fierce partners in crime.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>In a shaky relationship, it is highly recommended to trace painfully the first indicia of the possible fault lines. In this way, irreparable damage may be averted</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life. When we liberate energy for positive thinking, we need not remain bogged down in a dispiriting situation. By staying clogged up with the unnecessary hassle, we only initiate forlorn deadlocks.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>In a lifetime, we have to make choices. If the future offers no satisfying solutions or no impending viable prospects, knots must be cut. Sometimes "bags and baggage" must be packed. The lady in the picture has taken her conclusions and opted for a new horizon, packing up and walking out with her "cliques et claques."</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Choices and alternatives</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Woman with suitcase ."</strong></em></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Mes cliques et mes claques
<p><em><strong>"The door was still ajar" , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 100 x 50 cm</strong></em></p> <p><em><br /><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>A </strong></em><a title="Door" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Door" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>door</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> that is still ajar creates a contingent situation. It can arouse a feeling of expectation or a sensation of unrest. It can generate hope if one expects to meet somebody. It can create turbulence if the door was expected to be closed.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>We may be disturbed when a door is ajar. A door should be closed or open. But being ajar produces an unclear circumstance.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In front of an unclear situation one may be hesitant, distraught or helpless. It is however essential to make up one’s mind fast. One should deal with it or forget about it. If one keeps on standing in front of a door that is ajar, one can destroy one’s mind.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Destructive thinking patterns and indecisive conduct should be thrown overboard. If not, the Buridan’s syndrome will strike soon.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The Buridan’s ass is placed equally between a stack of hay and a pail of water. The ass will die of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any decision to choose one over the other.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Indecisiveness, open, closed .</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: </strong></em><a title="Woman" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Woman"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Woman</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, door.</strong></em></p>

As the door was still ajar
<p><em><strong>Blame storming , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, 100 x 130 cm, oil on canvas  xx</strong></em></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If brainstorming becomes 'blamestorming' because of time pressure or pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Blamestorming becomes then downright a dishonest appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for 'culprits on duty.'</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">While we expect everybody to tell the downright truth, many are muddying the water, drowning questions in a river of words, and trying to make us forget the real issue.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If paltering and deflecting matters become a new way of telling the truth, interaction might be doomed to culminate in a cluster shell of suspicion. Mutual trust becomes then frantically undermined.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Very often, feelings replace cold facts. If thinking and reason crack under the pressure of sentiment, and when commissioned points result from fibs and fake constructions, the truth is in great peril.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">In our quests, our intuition can be very helpful. Intuition listens to an inner voice and responds to an instant sentiment that may checkmate reason. It is only in hindsight that its soundness or fallibility is proven.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If some prefer to abandon ethical procedures because of practicality or pure sluggishness, society deserves protection against random and unconsidered judicial actions. The social network must be shielded from the danger of "untruth."</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> Phenomenon: Commissioned facts, emotion, truth, scapegoat, justice, ethics</span></em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting pointː Two police-like personae confronting a situation.</span></em></strong></p>

Blame storming
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"On a casual day without a tie" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, (130 x 80 cm), oil on canvas</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong><br /></strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>Let us loosen up some time and take a break to re-calibrate our life. We need no endless over-thinking, though. Let us now connect the dots, set the scene, and steam ahead.</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the many distinctions and resemblances. To find out about the inner self and understand our internal murmurings, we must learn to reach out to the others.</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>Roger. Vancampenhout writes:</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>An indefinite happening may occur in the routine life of an unspecified person. As he passes by, he seems to be an individual integrated into society, dressed in a tie, a symbol of male integration.</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>He has maybe "programmed" an event for the day, but changes his mind. Perhaps he wants to do something else and be free and released from the yoke of the red tape. He seems to have the will to do so.</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>Modern man may be constricted by many obligations, but preserves his freedom: an ephemeral determination to take command of his destiny.</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em>This linear, angular universe allows junctions and sets out prospects. It looks for new directions like the labyrinth seeks its exit."</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon : Routine, destiny, freedom</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point : Man and tie</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

On a casual, tieless day
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span class="detail-box-desc"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1c1c1c; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>"The empty Mirror" , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" class="extiw"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>(100 x 80 cm), oil canvas</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> Mirrors seem to be an essential issue in art.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In "The empty Mirror" two persons look at a black surface. They look at a mirror. Both ignore the beholder and, as so often in the artist's works, both are faceless. They come to life in geometric compositions and grey tones. Perhaps one is the reflection of the other. Perhaps they are doubles or clones. Neither of them has a specific characteristic. They hide their identity. They are men (or women) without qualities.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>If the face is considered as the mirror of the soul, these figures are soulless. The painting suggests potentiality: if we keep on looking, perhaps a figure will suddenly turn and we'll see the traits of the face, perhaps a reflection of the outer world will appear in the mirror or perhaps somebody will walk through the mirror and will thus enter his wonderland, an imaginary, parallel world.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The worst would be if the mirror were empty, as the world, which it is supposed to reflect, is also empty. In that case "the empty mirror” would stand for "the empty world”. (Daniel Thielemans)</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Mental emptiness</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Two persons and mirror</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

The empty mirror
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