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<p><em><strong>"</strong></em><a title="News (page does not exist)" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=News&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>News</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> of the world" , 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 100 cm) Oil on canvas}</strong></em></p> <p><em><br /><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In the mass media information must be newsworthy. The news must cover current events or recently changed situations.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Newspapers and broadcasts want not only to supply the news. They want to be in the news. They want to be the news. They want their readers to be excited: not by soft news, but by hard news, by breaking news. They want to catch their attention by newsworthiness and interestingness. They want to be an antidote to slogans like “No news is good news ». They don’t need quasi-news or unnews. They need scoops.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Sometimes the dead tree media create major troubles by making illegal incursions in the field of privacy. Accuracy of facts is another problem in their journalistic operations. Double checking events is often forgotten. Those who learn from their mistakes apply double-double or triple checking.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>When trying to get their information, some apparently don’t respect the deontological rules. In order to break the news and sell more copies they present special themes as crime, sensation, vice, gossip, tittle-tattle, rumors and scandal.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In exposing slight sexual misconducts, drug use or criminal acts of national or local celebrities, “The World of the News” used insiders and under cover journalists to supply photographic substantiation, and phone hacking in current police investigations.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: “The World of the News” crime, gossip, scandal.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Person reading “The World of the News”</strong></em></p>

News of the world
<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>Not without the </strong></em><a class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Past&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" title="Past (page does not exist)"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>past</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> .1 , 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)</strong></em></p> <p><em><br /><strong> </strong></em></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 our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have difficulty fighting the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and our childhood innocence might give back the core of what we are.</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>Even if we have bad feelings about our past, causing a sense of alienation, it is part of our history. We have to keep in mind that we should not take all benchmarks and decisions for the future without consulting the past.</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>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 cards.</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>Experience is a demanding master and knows the tricks of the trade. It teaches us how to play.</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>We needn’t burn down the bridges of the past, even if the castles of our youth have been shattered in our minds leaving destructive resentments.</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>If we are erring through a wasteland of memories, missing all the appointments with love, we must decide to give up the crusades against the figments in our thinking pattern. We must not allow draconian phantoms of the past to possess our thoughts and colonize our 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>If we feel uncomfortable with the harrowing ugliness in the world and the infuriating violence in our environs, we must not wait to speak out loud, louder, and louder until the hot-air balloon of indifference and intolerance finally blast into pieces. </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>: The past</em></span></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 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">: Woman looking back</span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Not without the past.
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p><em><strong>"Penis Envy" , 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 x130cm),</strong></em></p> <p><em><br /><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Since the time </strong></em><a title="Sigmund Freud" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Sigmund Freud</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> has started his psycho-analytical researches, the item "Penis Envy" has invaded many strata of our society.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Though Freud assumed that women envy men, simply because they have a penis, the hub of a men’s existence is precisely this particular organ. In the relationship with the penile member, many men seem to have a complicated affair, related to a sense of power. As size and ability are at the root of their self-esteem, it may lead to a feeling of shame and depression, if failures occur.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The Italian writer </strong><a title="Alberto Moravia" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Alberto Moravia</strong></span></span></a><strong>, in his book "Him and Me" (Io e lui), puts on an interesting dialectical performance of a man's passionate penis, talking to his owner. He gives us a fascinating dialogue between Instinct and Sublimation.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>In the opinion of the artist the </strong></em><a title="Automobile" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automobile"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>automobile</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> is often considered as a protraction of the penis. At the center of the painting, we see a representation of a car and an abstraction of two individuals watching at each side of the canvas. "The </strong></em><a title="Car" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Car" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>car</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> has become a " Penis Extension", tied to a man’s sense of virility, job </strong></em><a title="Prestige" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prestige"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>prestige</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, earning potential and true masculinity as a whole. It is an alternative for Penis enlargement. The car has simply become a magic potion for promising "male enhancement."</strong></em></p> <p><em><br /><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>'Phenomenon': Consumerism and envy</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>'Factual starting point': car and two men watching</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Penis envy
<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><strong><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ">Privacy (100 x 80 cm</span></em></strong></span></p>

Privacy
<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><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></span></p> <p>" <strong>Swimming or sinking</strong>" , by <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Erik Pevernagie</span></span></strong></a>, oil on canvas,100 x 130 cm  x</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">Fear is the fruit of powerlessness leading stealthily to exhaustion or aggression. Instead of sheltering and nourishing fear, we must nurture our imagination to foster thus and so sharing and connecting. </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">While reveling in the passion of the 'moment' and braving the whirlpool of time, a flow of vibrations can surprise us and reveal unsuspected power in our inner self, giving us muscle and confidence. </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">Instead of hating or killing time, let us embrace and escort it as a brother in arms, without regret or strain. If we follow the beat of our heart and channel the timeliness of our expectations, we can detach ourselves from greed and its compelling voices whispering "more and more." </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">We must make necessary inferences in a challenging situation and take consequent actions. Either we swim, or we give up and sink. For swimming, we need training, calculation, and endurance. For undertaking, we need preparation, evaluation, and stamina. </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">Since we must face unforeseen hitches during the stormy trips of our life, we are aware we must be considerate to brace ourselves for harsh times. </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">People expect us to be responsible and enterprising "Macher" instead of sloppy "Schlepper." Nobody enjoys pussyfooting and jelly fishing creatures. </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">Instead of vanishing in the quicksand of wishful thinking and clutching desperately to imaginary 'dei ex machina,' we must stop 'playtime,' start 'construction time,' and get things going. </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;"><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"><em>It is either swimming or sinking. We cannot live merely on blunt expectations or irresolution. </em></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></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><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"><br /> <em>Phenomenon</em> : survival </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></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 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: 10.0pt; 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; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point</span></em></strong><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; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"> :  swimmer </span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Swim or sink
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p><em><strong> </strong></em><span class="detail-box-desc"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><strong><em>"Thank God for the Belgian chocolate " , by <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Erik Pevernagie</span></span></a>, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm</em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><strong><em>“Thank you“ might be the hardest word to say. We may wonder, what can be so castrating about embracing gratitude? Some think it causes fear of loss, while it unleashes indistinct anxiety of losing independence or self-control. Gratefulness might come down to perpetual struggle against oblivion. It could amount to a lasting +-burden for maintaining the <a href="https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-dutch/infallibility"><span style="color: #222222;">infallibility</span></a> of their memory. In short, for some, thankfulness is a box of Pandora. </em></strong></span><strong style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"><em> </em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><strong><em>But chocolate can solve many problems. It is a relieving medicine that eases our existence and can turn life into a paradise on earth.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"><em>As its ethereal taste may find its origin in the pineal gland of our brains, it makes people happy and enraptures our spirit. </em></strong><strong style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"><em> </em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><strong><em>It provides moments of enjoyment and can transform lives into fairy tales.</em></strong></span><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"><em> </em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><strong><em>It may even take us on a spiritual trip that confers surprising aphrodisiac powers.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Thank God, thankfulness will never cause any regret.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Belgian chocolate</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Person worshipping chocolate bar .</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p>

Thank God for the Belgian chocolate
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"><em><strong>"The dirty bike" , by </strong></em></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0072c6; font-size: small;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm</strong></em></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Through worldwide manipulations, our respectable 'Bike' loses its credibility and becomes the subject of controversial interpretations. Its involvement in dubious affairs and scandals of corruption damaged its good reputation indeed.</strong></em></p> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Our poor bike becomes so, a 'dirty bike.'</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>We may wonder why so many people fail to look after their bikes and at the same time, neglect to watch where they are driving to and where they are coming from. They forget to check the past and to explore the presence, as to avoid the pitfalls and the hazards on the bumpy roads. Why people let themselves guide by vanity or greed and have their bike driven into the wall of disgrace and humiliation may be for many a mystery.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>While walking down the memory lane, we may discover in the remains of our early days, surprising little details that have been eclipsed under the mantle of forgetfulness or inattention.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Those loose shreds in our remembrance can highlight the importance of the fundamentals that steer our daily lives. But they may also urge us to crack particular values that we use to impart to quirky things or single actions, allowing us, so, to discern the uprightness and the truth behind the appearances.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>We may feel the world is slipping out of our hands and recognize that the core of our conceived blueprint is escaping us. Let us challenge, then, a point of resilience and get out of the weeds, clear our mind and figure out "who is who" in our lives, and gauge what is valuable in our mind.</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 our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives.</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 our bike eschews mental extinction and vanity, it will follow a sparkling clean course.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon:</strong> Vanity and Corruption</em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Factual starting point:</strong> Cyclist and bike</em></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top; mso-line-height-alt: 10.65pt;" align="center"> </p>

Dirty Bike
<p><span style="color: #181818; 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>"The hidden sides of his character" , 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</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. Some parts are translucent; some elements are opaque. The characters' hidden meanders often remain concealed and are not easy to figure out.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment, and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>'Truth' and 'facts' are 'sworn enemies,' but facts are often torn into a smokescreen and camouflaged into an appearance of alluring reliability. Only gullible people might swallow this for fear of being treated like dummies.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>The truth is not a transparent process. What we see are shadows behind mat glass, a vaporous representation of reality.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>Truth is not as such, what we think it is. The 'truth' is a prism with many sides that only let us guess.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, combat with our 'own' preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>In reality, the truth is perhaps not 'true.'</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="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"><strong><em>Maybe it is just a lie. Taking our truth for "the" truth could lead to many erroneous interpretations</em></strong>.</span></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: The hidden sides of truth and reality</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Part of male person</strong></em></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>

The hidden sides of his character
<p><em><strong>"The sorrow of </strong><a title="Belgium" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Belgium" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Belgium</strong></span></span></a><strong>", 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 80 cm</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> The individuation or the differentiation of social and ethnic groups in society can become predominant in some countries. Feeling a loss of identity and a lack of freedom of action, some entities may want to proclaim themselves distinct from other social groups, separate , autonomous or independent with own projects and political ideas.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>A separation is always difficult and constantly creates scars of sorrow and regret. Everybody may agree upon the diagnosis but very often not about the therapy. It is precisely the therapy that is mostly very painful. Along with other European countries like </strong></em><a title="Great Britain" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Great Britain</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> and </strong></em><a title="Spain" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spain" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Spain</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, Belgium is confronted with this problem.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Some parts of society feel that the rug is being pulled from under their feet. Some suffer from a sundown syndrome, fearing that, for them, the sun is going down for ever.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Individuation or social differentiation.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Bending person in sorrow</strong></em></p> <p> </p>

The sorrow of Belgium
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