"Le ciel c'est l'autre" - "Heaven is the other one" , by Erik Pevernagie, oil on paper, 88 x 66 cm xx

Everybody is an alien to somebody else. The other can be heaven or can be hell. Still and all, the other remains an opportunity to discover ourselves.

People die from a lack of shared empathy and affinity. When we establish social connectedness, we give hope a chance, and the other can become heaven.

If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from the prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds.

On the dark stormy nights of our life, we can inhale soothing well-being through the radiant glow of an unsuspected lighthouse. We can sense the refreshing rhythm of our heartbeat, feel compassion for ourselves, and, at once, reach out to all others.

Emotion often outwits intelligence, and intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable.

Even if a blizzard of suspicion may sometimes fray it, we must keep walking up the happy rainbow of trust and compassion and trust the quality of connectedness.

When we evade the grueling imprisonment of a mental cage, we can redirect lost momentum to positive thinking and restrengthen a trust's mold.

Albert Camus' foreigner is an alien in society, erring as an isolated individual along the strata of a lonely life. He hasn't got the opportunity to know the ins and outs of finding somebody who would bring him heaven and make him discover the juicy fruits of life. They will condemn him to death for that shortage and his lack of human feelings in the first place.

Jean-Paul Sartre's foreigner doesn't take any chance to find a person who brings him heaven since "the other is hell."

Phenomenon: Social connectedness

Factual starting point of the picture: Man and woman