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<p><em><strong>"Prêt-à-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking" 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 80cm  xx</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Ready-to-wear thinking and ‘Prêt-à-Penser’ mottoes have repeatedly damaged women’s reputations.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Prejudices, simplistic verdicts, and half-truths are rampant and often level women down to an identical, uniform, homogeneous entity: a ready-to-wear species, a Prêt-à-Porter class.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Condensing women to a toy, a nanny, or simply a mother and shrink-wrapping them into a vehicle that can be maneuvered into the background is a habit that we can still witness daily.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Since many men remain spoiled boys who have never grown up, women are ready to raise them with much patience, both as a condescending contribution to patronizing compassion and a proof of their sense of worth.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Prefabricated thoughts result from sloth and laziness. Ready-to-wear thinking means the absence of critical awareness and ground-breaking judgment. Rubber-stamping, packaged thinking, and blindly taking over what other people claim to be the truth are clearly signs of laziness.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Let us not store preconceived ideas in our minds. A freewheeling imagination can only function and reach its full potential if it is liberated from canning” old thinking” and adopting imposed “packaged mental trips.”</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If we are ready for thinking, not traditional, conventional, rehashed thinking but exploratory and adventurous thinking, we can move forward and discover the astounding appeal of new mind-blowing visions.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our minds.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Our preferences or opinions cannot always be explained or rationalized. There is no accounting for taste. But we can adjust things to our own liking and learn to regard and accept the differing choices of others.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Let us not become victims of a crippling reasoning pattern. If we want to improve our decision-making and critical thinking, we must recognize our mental biases and be willing to overcome them. We must avoid creating arguments to confirm pre-existing beliefs at all costs and invest in a ‘sunk cost fallacy.’ It is better to alight from a car out of control than drive it off the cliff.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Let us not be trapped by faint discrimination or intolerance preventing us from creating open perspectives. If we rise above the imprisonment of fixed ideas, we make an essential step toward personal growth and self-esteem.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Engaging in "nuances" takes a lot of time, too much time for many people. That's why they often prefer fixed, blocky, prefabricated, granite-cast, immutable ideas. This ensures them time-saving peace of mind and a worry-free but shallow existence.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Ready-to-wear thinking</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Female figure</span></em></p>

Prêt-à-penser
<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 lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><em><strong>Pulling the rabbit out of his hat, <span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by </span></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; font-family: Tahoma;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">, oil on canvas,</span> (100 x80 cm) </strong></em></span></span></span></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong>How often can we see people teasing the gullibility of the public? When is he finally going to pull out his rabbit? </strong></span></span></em></p>

Pulling the rabbit out of his hat
<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>"Rooting, hogging or… dying.", 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 130cm</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>If we want to earn our living, we have to suffer. Many like to suffer, and for some, suffering can be a kind of artistic expression that challenges people and defies them with their limits, and, so, pain can be a shot to recognize the architecture and the workings of their being.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Working means suffering: this was the traditional way of thinking and living in our grandparents’ society. Labour ethics may have changed by now since too much suffering can be compensated through unemployment benefits.</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 many countries in the world, the struggle for one dollar a day is still a bitter reality, though. "No gain without pain."</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>"Work makes you free" (“Arbeit macht frei ") is the title of a book of the 19 th century, making a plea for work as a means to combat boredom, gambling, and swindling. It can set them free from their own weakness and dependence. It regulates life and provides the necessary rhythmical pace to move on in life. The Nazis used the title as a slogan at the entrance of their concentration camps.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>The French singer Henri Salvador has another interpretation: "Work is good for you" ( "Le travail, c’est la santé." ). But he adds frolic: "Doing nothing, makes you keep it" ( Ne rien faire, c'est la préserver ).</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>All this opens the door to "laziness". Paul Lafargue makes a plea for laziness with his book "Le Droit à la paresse" and reduces the "values" of labor completely.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Work and laziness</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Man hogging</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>

Rooting hogging or...
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: DE;" lang="DE"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Steps in the unknown" , 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  xx</strong></em></p> <p><em style="color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong>We have to walk out on ourselves, expel ourselves from our inner castle, and drop our formatted masks if we want to encounter people in the flesh without makeup.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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 we are prepared to take steps into the anonymous world, we accept to crush the daily grind and decide to explore the outer world.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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 challenge the unknown, we want to discover the undisclosed. By going down the steps to the unrevealed edges of life and finding the unknown, we learn to distinguish the unidentified nature of things.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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 we ultimately want to know who we are and recognize our identity, we must find others' identity. By making friends with others, we can make friends with ourselves. In that way, we sense how, harmoniously, everything can fall into place.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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>What could we want more than being genuine and authentic? We all need a distinctive, substantial identity guiding us along the scary slopes of our life adventure and protecting us from unsuspected pitfalls. Still, our identity remains under construction and can often let us down, tossing us about in our daily journey and recurrently altering its policy.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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>Let our doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as a brother-in-arms, steps in the unknown need not frighten.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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>Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self. If we give way to the desire to look above and beyond the limit of the horizon, we can perceive a fabulous range of unsuspected privileges unfolding in front of our eyes.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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>: The identity, discovery of the unknown</em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; 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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; 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; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">: </span></em><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR-BE"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Staircase" title="Staircase"><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #0645ad; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Staircase</span></em></a></span><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Schritte ins Ungewisse
<p><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p><em><strong>Step on the gas, 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,  xx</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>If we feel we do not focus enough on our actual needs, we like to know the traps of our fake priorities and find out how to identify and avoid them. By stopping trendy causes and averting shiny object syndrome, we eschew misallocation of time and energy. If we take responsibility for our actions, we can avoid creating a culture of blame-shifting or missing out on valuable chances for better insight.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>We know how tempting it is to step on the gas.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>On the one hand, oil-producing countries ask us to accelerate continuously.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>On the other hand, energy-consuming countries want us to slow down our consumption.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>In the background of the dialectic discussions about a permanent contradiction between the increase and decrease of energy consumption, the environmental challenges arouse worry and dramatic social unrest.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Crimes against nature and the environment are regularly committed, and "Plausible deniability" has become a keyword for manipulative strategies.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>If evidence of participation in suspicious activities crops up, perpetrators easily deny cognizance playfully and shift blame onto the scapegoats on duty. Such a procedure helps avoid backlash; everybody can step on the gas as if nothing has ever happened.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>By providing evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt," any allegation can be countered.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><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>: Energy consumption</em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #202122; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #202122; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" lang="EN-US"> : Fuel dispenser</span></em><strong><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"></span></em></strong></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Step on the gas
<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 style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong style="color: #202122;">"The power and the glory"</strong><span style="color: #202122;"> , by </span><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie" style="color: #3366bb; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></a><span style="color: #202122;">, oil on canvas, (100 x 80 cm) xx</span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Significant guiding forces govern the world and our lives. Undercurrent drives push people in all directions, with immeasurable outcomes.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Power and glory are two main dynamics. We can interpret them through several rationales in the realm of social motivation. If some dream of sovereignty, royalty, or fame, others even dream of divinity.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Power and glory are two dialectic energies working on common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering underswell of glory in the shade of power can be very inspiring and illuminating. Everything can become entangled on the road of passion for reaching the desired goals.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The traps of unbridled passion that drive us to hold back the truth and hamper us from speaking candidly and truthfully must not invade our thinking. Living on lies and denying irrefutable facts to attain power or glory condemn anyone to walk on bumpy paths with awkward pitfalls and embarrassing wrangles.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If we take height instead of digging ourselves into a whirlpool of deception or self-sufficiency, we can track down the things we have neglected for so long that can give our lives a rainbow of color and vibrance</strong></em>.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon:</em></strong><em> Dialectic link of power and glory</em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: white;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" 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; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Woman and man</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> </p>

The Power behind the glory
<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>"The daily job" , 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 130 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> For some </strong></em><a title="Work" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Work"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>work</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> is a duty. For others it is a choice. For a number labor is not a value.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Many hate the magic roundabout of daily life,” Métro, boulot, dodo” ("commute, work, sleep"). They get sick of the nine to five jobs. They want to walk free from the same old routine, work, work, work. They don’t want to belong to the category of the day-in, day-outers, the grinders.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>For many, however, routine creates a sense of security. You needn’t think. You haven’t got to worry. Just follow the usual track. They call the others, simply, parasites or spongers and consider NEETs as underachieving losers. While they are slogging and doing their daily job, the others are just goofing off or goldbricking.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Other social groups have a different viewpoint: “Workers of the world unite and make fun!”</strong></em></p> <p><a title="Paul Lafargue" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lafargue"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Paul Lafargue</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, French revolutionary </strong></em><a title="Marx" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marx"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Marxist</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> writer, explains his views in his book: "The Right to Be Lazy". He considers laziness as a value on its own. " The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the </strong></em><a title="Body" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Body"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>body</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> and mind."</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Bertrand Russell, wants to convince us that labor tends to cause unhappiness, therefore, the quantity of labor ought to be lessened. ("In Praise of Idleness")</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Wage </strong></em><a title="Slavery" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Slavery"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>slavery</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> is involved if livelihood depends totally on wages, which causes social stratification, with threat of starvation, poverty and social stigma . Intensification of labour leads to stress, which can lead to burnouts. The possibility of sponsoring laziness or, at least, of providing a basic salary to every citizen, has been discussed by some Western countries.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Labour, laziness</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Man walking to office</strong></em></p> </span> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"> </p> </span> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"> </p> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"> </p>

The daily job
<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>"The letter that came too late" 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 130 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> Irrevocability of time and irreparable emotional loss.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>How many people have not been victims of redoubtable snail mails? So many letters, with an important emotional message, have been sent. They never reached their destination or, when it did, far too late. Time can cause irreparable loss and arouse a mental state of sadness, distrust, powerlessness and despair.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Bill Moore from Aurora, Colorado, was handed over a letter he had written to his girlfriend seven decades ago, which was discovered inside a record sleeve purchased from a thrift shop. A same trick of time and destiny has been played on Chuck Kunellis of Fair Oaks, California and John Eddington from Aurora, Colorado.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Extreme snail mails, which have been handed over 7O years later, after sending, caused an eruption of sorrowful emotion.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Irrevocability of time</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: letter handed over</strong></em></p> <p><em><br /><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>'French': Irrévocabilité de temps. Le message ne peut être transmis à temps. Cela peut conduire à une situation dramatique et des sentiments d'impuissance.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>'Nederlands': Onherroepelijkheid van de tijd. De boodschap kan niet op tijd geleverd worden. Dit kan leiden tot een dramatische situatie en gevoelens van hulpeloosheid.</strong></em></p> </span> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"> </p> </span> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"> </p> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"> </p>

The message that came too late
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong><em>The page she had forgotten to turn (100 x 100 cm) </em></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">, by </span><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;">Erik Pevernagie</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">, oil on canvas,100 x 80 cm</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> <p> </p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p> </p> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p> </p> <span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"><em><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">We learn by our mistakes. We know it makes no sense to keep bothering about things which belong to the past. Sometimes, however, we realize we haven’t done our homework well enough. We recognize then that we have forgotten to turn a page from our history.</span></span></strong></em></p> </p> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon</strong>: Memory,</em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture:</strong> Person sitting at left side</em></p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"><em><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> </span> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> </span> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> </span> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> </span></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </p> </span> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> </span> <p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> </span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"><em><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>

The page she had forgotten to turn
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