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<p><strong><em>"Killing silence",</em></strong> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by </span></em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Tahoma;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">, oil on canvas,</span></strong></em><strong><em>(100 x 80 cm) </em></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></strong></em></span></span></p> <p> </p>

Killing silence
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>"Knowing friends in high places" by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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, 100 x 80 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> Friendship and corruption could become a dialectic problem.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>When we abstract a building, we can divide it in several floors and add different colours, which allude to different political parties.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>At the top floor human shadows hint at people with influential power.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>An elevator leads to the numerous floors.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>One person in the picture claims to know friends in high places.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon : Corruption</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Building, floors, elevator, person</strong></em></p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p>

Knowing friends in high places
<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong><em>Lire les signes du temps , </em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by </span></em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Tahoma;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">, oil on canvas,,</span></strong></em><strong><em>(100 x 80 cm) </em></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. We need many eyes to understand. </span></strong></em><em><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Genius seculi. </span></strong></em><em><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Zeitgeist. Painting is also reading the spirit of the time, grasping the characteristic outlook of a generation, sensing and appreciating the flavour of a period, trying to define the taste, the smell and the atmosphere of our current society, </span></strong></em><em><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">identifying the intellectual and cultural climate, decoding specific events, which allows us to be aware…</span></strong></em></span></span></p>

Lire les signes du temps
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Going back to yesterday" , 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,, 100 x 80 cm. x</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with the present reality and adjust our timeline. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">By recognizing ourselves in light of our history, we become aware of what we are. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">As it has the quality to transmit skills and knowledge, our personal history is a brilliant coach teaching us how to act and play along with the meanders of life. While it inhabits our living, it becomes our fellow traveler shielding us from slippery slopes and sometimes from ourselves. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">Let us listen to the needs of our inner child that is being tamed and imprisoned by the rules of a grown-up world. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">We learned enough lessons the hard way and, thus, have come to understand that we must clearly recognize the things that are either expanding our mental welfare and brightening the paths to creative thinking or the things that are ripping our lives apart. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><em><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">"It is no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then," Carroll reminds in Alice's "Adventures in Wonderland." But the past remains like a beacon in the surf of our life. </span></strong><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;">s. Carroll suggests in Alice's "Adventures in Wonderland": "It is no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><em><br /></em></strong></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Inflexibility in little girls’ mind</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Little Girl</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Little girl before taking a decision
<p><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Looking for the unexpected" , 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,(100 x 80 cm) x</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When we feel the cards are stacked against us, and we have to confront the arresting questions of our walks of life, we may happen to face up to an "apocalypse." When we meet head-on a disclosure of a "new" truth and come to terms with the destruction of our "old" reality, the disparity might be very challenging, or conceivably liberating as well.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Some are annoyed by the laming spirit of a profound mediocrity and the daily grind. They decide then to go on the road and look for the unexpected.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>By discerning the surreptitious features in the scenery of their self, they come to apprehend their personality, find out their identity, and learn how to cultivate it. Taking care of their fingerprints will be an enduring endeavor.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>In our life journey, the unexpected may remind us or surprise us. It may tell us when we are moved by things we think we recognize and give us a good feeling. It may surprise us when we find out things that open a new vision on the world and offer us an unforeseen experience.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves. We are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. To know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we can establish an uplifting link with otherness.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Looking for the unexpected, assumes an open mind, a condition of dynamic, uncluttered response to current events. By finding out the things we don't know, we analyze our interpretations and master our own feelings. We become mindful and assess circumstances in an unbiased manner.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Alexander Von Humboldt left his safe home in Germany and went to go and look for the unexpected in the world at large. This allowed him to discover the many extraordinary and unusual things, which were so precious for the coming generations. He combined guts, luck, and creative insight.</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The 'Burning Man' adherents are possessed by the same spirit: looking for the unexpected and' out of the box thinking.' We will never forget the man who was looking for a needle in a haystack and came out with the farmer's daughter. In his life, Robert Mapplethorpe has always been "looking for the unexpected, for things he had never seen before."</strong></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">: Mindfulness and Serendipity</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point of the picture</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">: Person experimenting with bodily expressions.</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Looking for the unexpected
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Lost the global story." , 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, 80 cm x 100cm xx</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be 'someone else.' After erring and drifting, we eventually realize we want to discover 'ourselves,' without any airbrushing, so as to meet our authentic self and not the one imposed on us. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">When our "thinking pattern" is free and unbolted, we can look at things and ourselves differently. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">If only bits and pieces remain, our mental balance may suffer and become distorted. The influx of unexpected incidents can shatter a whole spiritual construction. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">When the context of things is lost, and the power to assess matters or experiences is missing, crucial disorders arise. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">When our mental functioning is whittling away, and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not translate the correct inflection anymore, and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. By focusing on the 'singular moments' and the 'inspiring details' of our lives, we can tear open the cloudy screen that obscures our vision to reveal the points of 'interest' and 'attention' that can give perspective on our path. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></em></p> <p><em><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">By putting together the numerous parts of a scattered reality and connecting the key points of our life story, mental structures can be resettled. </span></strong><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;">e numerous parts of a scattered existence and connecting the critical points in a life story, mental structures can be resettled.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Loss of identity, of context in life</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Woman crawling</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Lost the global story
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>"My </strong></em><a title="Computer" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Computer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>computer</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> does not understand me" , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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, 120 x 100cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> Between humans and computers there is very a fundamental. misunderstanding.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Technology has acquired human qualities. Computers are considered as buds.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>But if they become stubborn, relationship can become chilled. It happens that disturbed relationships grow out of proportion. An office worker comes back to his office with a gun and starts shooting at his computer. He tries to kill his good friend, his PC. The disappointment has apparently become too strong. His friend has driven him mad.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Man and IT</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Character with computer</strong></em></p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p>

My computer doesn’t understand me
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>Not without the </strong></em><a title="Past (page does not exist)" class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Past&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>past</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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,(100 x 100 cm)</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>We needn’t burn down all the </strong></em><a title="Bridge" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bridge"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>bridges</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, even if, in our mind, the town of our youth has been burnt down and has left us destructive resentments, like for Rufus Wainwrights, (“Going to a Town”).</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our </strong></em><a title="History" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/History"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>history</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>. We have to take into consideration all its benchmarks and can’t take decisions for the future without consulting it. .</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The past becomes our second personality. It is our intrinsic safety code, irrespective of a potential love-hate relationship. It may become our guardian angel and protect us from a bleak blind alley, since it knows that “we” know. And “We” know the colors of its </strong></em><a title="Cards (page does not exist)" class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cards&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>cards</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>. Experience is a tough master and knows the tricks of the trade. It teaches us how to play.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: The past</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Woman looking back</strong></em></p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p>

Not without the past
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Only needed a light " , 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. x</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If something is freaking out people it is very often the slippery slope between words and meaning, between what is said and what is understood.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a sparkle in the eyes of otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>A conniving twinkle or an impelling glitter in the eyes can turn into a glow that takes people to the magic of life.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>In a time of communal disintegration, people suffer from social deafness. Their redoubtable "tin ear" causes an emotional insensitivity that makes it difficult to recognize any signs of empathy or capture the slightest vibrant qualities of 'sharing,' sharing with others.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When we feel related to our environment, we can develop and improve the quality of our involvement since connectedness and concern are remedies against ignorance and envy.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>As many intend to find some relief from their discomfort and lack of social "sharedness," they remain glued to their smartphones and addict to the illusionary avalanche of images and sounds.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>While we are threading our way through the vagaries of life, our shortage of reciprocity and solidarity may corner us into breaches of culpability. We can eschew this and kindle a dream of universalism that does not impose itself but emerges from the world's numerous cultural and topical particularities and enable us to compare, discern, and identify, allowing us to marvel at the diversity. In this way, we can embrace universal recognition, human understanding, peace of mind, and compassion with others and with ourselves.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon:</em></strong><em> Connectedness and empathy</em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </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 point</span></em></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">: </span></em><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Match" title="Match"><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #0645ad; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Match</span></em></a></span><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> and matchbox</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;"> </p>

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