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<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 unbearable heaviness of being , 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 x</strong></em></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Lightness and weightiness are both linked to a philosophy of life. They are choices in life.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Heaviness can be the embodiment of a sense of responsibility, the expression of maturity, the result of profound meditation, or the emanation of a search for meaning in life.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Weightiness may also lead to oppression when we experience it like a burden: an unbearable burden. In that case, the time has come to release and offload a stale environment.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The time has come, then, to let loose and liberate oneself. In this way, physical or mental dependence can be alleviated and evaporated.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Things lose then, eventually, their gravity, their weightiness. The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than blaming others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness.</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch the quirky aura and the exceptional quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> Phenomenon: Lightness and weightiness of life.</span></em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point : Rock and man with bowler hat</span></em></strong></p> <p><em>*****<strong> </strong></em></p> <div class="description mw-content-ltr fr" dir="ltr" lang="fr"><em><strong><span class="language fr" title="Français">Français :</span> Légèreté et pesanteur sont liés à une philosophie de vie. Ce sont des choix de vie. Ce tableau traduit la contradiction philosophique de légèreté et lourdeur. Pesanteur peut être un signe du sens de responsabilité. Elle peut être l'expression de maturité. Elle peut être le résultat d'une profonde méditation. Elle peut être l'émission d'une quête de sens dans la vie. Mais pesanteur peut également conduire à un sentiment d'oppression lorsqu'elle est ressentie comme un fardeau: un fardeau insupportable. Alors le temps est venu de se libérer et de se défaire d'un environnement étouffant. </strong></em></div> <div class="description mw-content-ltr fr" dir="ltr" lang="fr"></div> <div class="description mw-content-ltr fr" dir="ltr" lang="fr"><em><strong>Nederlands: Lichtheid en zwaarte zijn gerelateerd aan een levensfilosofie. Dit zijn keuzes in de levensstijl. Het schilderij vertaalt de filosofische tegenstelling tussen lichtheid en zwaarte. "Gewicht en gewichtig" kunnen kunnen staan voor gevoel voor verantwoordelijkheid. Ze kunnen worden verklaard als zijnde een uiting van volwassenheid. Ze kunnen mogelijk het gevolg zijn van diepe meditatie of ze kunnen de expressie zijn van een zoektocht naar betekenis van het leven. Maar zwaarte kan ook leiden tot een gevoel van verdrukking of onderdrukking wanneer het wordt ervaren als een last: een ondraaglijke last. Dan is de tijd gekomen om "los te laten" en zich te ontdoen van een benauwde, bedompte atmosfeer.</strong></em></div> <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 unbearable heaviness of life
<p><span style="color: #181818; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Une femme peut en cacher une autre" , 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>, (64 x 99 cm), oil on canvas</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 we remain hidden in the rainbow of a prism, locked up in the spectrum of unsolved stories, life becomes a journey in a world beyond appearances and a mystery behind perpetual tensions.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>In a men’s world, many women may still feel embroiled in a web of wearisome and uncomfortable positions and often prefer to hide in a veil of anonymity or a shroud of 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>By escaping from the limelight for some time, they try to assemble the tokens of their personality and reconstruct an identity that may have been under attack in the course of their lifetime.</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 this event, comprehensive and essential facets may get lost for the public eye, which might make the picture of their persona sometimes inscrutably opaque.</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 outside world will, then, have to attempt to find out the missing pieces of the puzzle… “Cherchez la femme.”</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: human mysteries</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Several facets of woman</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>

Une femme peut en cacher une autre
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>"Waiting for the unexpected" , 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,( 80 x 100 cm)</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>“For me it’s even more the shape that one perceives than the idea behind the painting, which astonishes and alienates me. It starts from a situation in everyday life: "One expects that somebody appears on the balcony".</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The painting represents the visual angle of the person, who is watching and waiting but who is not present on the canvas.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>This visual angle invites us to trap the perspective by deforming it thoroughly. At the same time, the beholder who looks at the painting also looks at the balcony by taking the identity of the absent character.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The beholder creates a connection between the external and internal space of the painting. In this way the painting opens itself to the public.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The shape, the structure impose themselves and create some disturbance. The canvas is almost empty. No cumbersome details. No technical tricks.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I realize now that it was the vacuum which disturbed me and which worried me."(Ludmila Krasnova)</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon:The un-expectations</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point : Window with balcony</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

Waiting for the unexpected
<p><span style="color: #050505; 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>"Woman in progress" , 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 style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Throughout our emotional odyssey in the unembellished narrative of our life, we may sense many alluring voices that are enticing us into a beguiling, seamless story.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Our inner monologue, however, might start raising consequential questions about the scintillation of that story, about our vulnerability during the tempting process and the danger of losing our real self. The question may be asked, whether the lure might enlighten, weaken, or destroy our living.</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 our interior monologue mostly listens to the wisdom of our experience and the guidance of our memory, it may prefer not to listen. In that event, however, unreason and passion will be calling all the shots.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>For decades women have been attempting to embroider the tale of their life, but, very often, their interior monologue has not left them much of choice.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>As many still live in a patriarchal world, dominated by the punitive power of a conservative system, they have not got the opportunity to adopt attractive alternatives. Neither have they been able to refer to alluring stories that might have enhanced their standard of living and mental independence.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Gender equality in Western societies is a somewhat recent debate. In the understanding that women in France, had not the right to hold their 'own' bank account, until 1965; and that women in Switzerland had no voting right, until 1971, we must recognize that women in many third world countries have still a long way to go.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Fairness and impartiality are the main points on the agenda. Female egalitarianism and equal opportunity is still a sweltering challenge when we note that in some countries, many are always treated like slaves or considered as underdogs.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>“Women in progress.”</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Female equality,</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Woman moving forward</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em> </em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em> </em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>

Woman in progress
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Délit de sale gueule" - "Ugly mug offense" , 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; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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>Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces that don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime, and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society.</strong></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;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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>Fear can be a source of facial discrimination because faces, which we are not used to, can be frightening, deviant, or weird. Since the human brain permanently processes countenances, it identifies “who is who,” who is a foe, who is a friend, and who could constitute an imminent danger. Only when the mind has become accustomed to various facial types can people drop their prejudices and fear.</strong></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;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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 the 1850s, Irish immigrants were victims of a selective perception as they were mocked for their physiognomy when arriving in the US. With the influx of numerous settlers, we could expect discrimination of people's facial features or expressions in many countries. Only when the human mind has accustomed itself to many different facial types can people drop their prejudices.</strong></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;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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 people may have a very decent outlook and need not fear any discrimination. As they do not show, physically, any negative side or any dark side, they remain under the radar. They are adopted as law-abiding citizens without suspicion.</strong></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;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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>However, through their intellectual disability or mental illiteracy, some cannot free themselves from the imprisonment of irrevocable idiocy and feel condemned to find gratifying compensation by extracting the vilest qualities from the deep quarters of their dark self.</strong></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;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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>Anyhow, we should not fool ourselves. If some people say we are all born equal, this is partly true because some are ‘more equal’ than others.</strong></em></span></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; 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>PS Taiwan organizes a Facial Equality Day in May to attack prejudices.</strong></em></span></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Facial discrimination, aversion, alarm</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Weird face</strong></em></p> <p style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Délit de sale gueule
<p><span style="color: #333333;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"The unbreakable code" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>,(100 x 130 cm), oil on canvas</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"><em><strong>In the face of the numerous attempts to establish shared agreements, human understanding often remains enigmatic and motivations impenetrable.</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 cannot share our values any longer, and our incipient intentions have become blurry, common understanding may turn into irredeemable misunderstanding. If the spirit of shared perspectives and commitments breaks up, suspicion, remorse, or regret stand on the doorstep. As such, shared initiatives ought to be reasoned and well-thought-out to avoid ‘understanding’ becoming ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘hope’ breaking down into ‘heartbreak.’</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>To avoid interminable discussions, many prefer to settle matters by encrypting everything. In that way, they want to brand their common understanding using codes.</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>Codes and semiotic conventions are a challenge for human communication as they seal off people with a privacy protection label. They make them accessible only by using a barcode that might estrange them from their surroundings. At the same time, however, they procure them a kind of reassurance in their comfort zone. This dialectical situation may keep them struggling during their entire life.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"> </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>Unless one has the unconditional key, many codes remain unbreakable in our society, and cognitive abilities very often do not allow us to decipher the real facts.</strong></em></span></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Codes and human understanding</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the pictureː woman with code bar</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 unbreakable code
<p><span style="color: #050505; 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>You never get a handkerchief when you really need it 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 × 100 cm).</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> A friend in need is a friend indeed.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Let us fear the torment of emotions that might sway in its wake chaos through the sound construction of reason and discernment. Let us cherish emotional intelligence along the intricate and tortuous paths of life’s labyrinth instead.</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 the invisible wall between two secret gardens crumbles down, it may provoke an irreparable emotional earth slide, or it may be an unexpected opportunity of building a newfangled bridge between clandestine desires and furtive impulses.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>As the day comes when feelings overwhelm the fortress of our corporeal reality, a helping hand from the social environment is always gladly expected, but often absent. A friend in need is a friend indeed.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Face and handkerchief are caught in a pattern of lines and surfaces, displayed on the canvas.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong> '' Factual starting point of the picture ː Woman and handkerchief</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>''Phenomenon: Tragedy and comedy</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>

You never get a handkerchief when you really need
<p><em><strong>"Waiting for the smoke signals" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> , 100 x100 cm, oil on canvas.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>People often don't dare to send smoke signals or attention-seeking signs because of an ingrained reticence to open their minds.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Could it be mistrust, laziness, or lack of courage that stops us from walking up to people?</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Could a lack of confidence lead to lethargy and apathy? Have we just got to sit back and wait for some smoke signal? Should people go on sending smoke signals or messages in a bottle, before falling into despair?</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Hope may inspire and entice us, but we cannot just live on hope. Indeed, love can be hope, but it is merely a contingency since it might either mend our life or break our hearts.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Whichever way, let's look at the bright side of life, even if love has only been a long shot and become evanescent. Love may still inspire us if we have the gift to savor the fragrance of the treasured moments of togetherness from memorable times that furtively slipped away.</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 merely see life as we think it is, and we perceive things only from our own tapered point of view and don't learn the idioms of the others, life is doomed to remain a misconstruction.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>So, let's not put our lust of life on the back burner of a distant future, but let's share and walk up to others, listening to the sound of their words, and taking part in the vibrant carrousel of their pursuits.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Social isolation</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>'Factual starting point of the picture' : man in waiting position and smoke signals</strong></em></p>

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<p><span class="detail-box-desc"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>Un Brin de causette svp - Please. Just a bit of a chat, 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 x130 cm</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>As anonymity or lack of interest dissolves the spirit of complicity between people, just a bit of a chat may open up a cloudy atmosphere and bring some shining light into a morose environment.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>As anonymity or lack of interest dissolves the spirit of complicity between people, just a bit of a chat may open up a cloudy atmosphere and bring some shining light into a morose environment.</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 people don't give some personal time to social time, they are bound to walk like phantoms through the gloomy alleys of their existence or move unconsciously like automatons amid other people.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Some are condemned to remain mere "clock and smartphone watchers," inasmuch as they are not able to read and interpret the lines of their life or don't even treasure the enchantment of daily captivating moments.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>By sharing their stories, people could bring warmness in an emotional, freezing environment.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Once the horizon is narrowing and the countdown is ticking hastily, people may bring themselves to tear down the veil of inattention, losing their wintry smile, and come to recognize eventually the radiance and the deliverance of the breathing space that they have been missing for so long.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Let's be sensible. Life is about taking the time to recognize things that we already know and finding out the mysteries behind the innocence of their appearance. Life is a patient quest for second or third dimensions.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: communication</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: man walking among </strong></em><a class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Travelers&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" title="Travelers (page does not exist)"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>travelers</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> Representing pressure of </strong></em><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Time" title="Time"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>time</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, lack of </strong></em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication" title="Communication"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>communication</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>.</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 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>

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