My second painting is `The why-s and what-s’ .

The painting contains an amalgam of fourteen philosophical, social, physical, cultural and psychological symbols.



The central idea is the interrelation between the subconscious and between (what we call) reality.

The subconscious, though studied and proved to be `a mine of gold’, is still perceived, from ignorance, as being occult or, at least, strange.



The story of my painting starts from the bottom side flowing towards the top.



The fourteen symbols





1. The interference with the subconscious is realised when an idea pops, `from nowhere’, into awareness. When talking about the edge between the two worlds, we cannot establish its place in mathematical terms, this is why, I represented this border as a very thin layer. This was shown in the way the `separator platform’ is torn and curved as easily as a piece of paper can be physically mutilated. It looks like the result of an explosion, leaving at sight the riches of its unexplored.

So, why are we not thought about the power of mind?



2. The sand castle that dominates the entire perspective stands for the colossal importance that we give to the concrete possessions. It also suggests the fact that none of the material achievements can last forever and that, though it is so taught to gather reaches, they are nothing but beautiful sand castles.

So, why do we invest almost all our time in making money?



3. The connection between the ideas( the treasures from the bottom of the painting) and their physical result(the castle) is represented by the central colourful `river’ of energy. Ideas are energy. They can materialize through hard work, (in the painting) represented by the red hand from the top of the stream. This is the last step before getting in the ownership of the physical wealth.



4. The senior couple - represents the wisdom of life and the act of embrace represents the main achievement of life: the understanding that love is of great magnitude, that love is vital and that it is the only feeling that deserves and which can lead to sacrifice.

What is your life main priority?

5. The lion -The social, financial and any other type of issues is represented by the gigantic beast. But what harm can a beast do to a being if it lacks the features that are making it scary? As angry as it may be, the lion has neither fangs, nor nails. So, why are we afraid? Of what? Why do we get stressed? The worst a problem can affect us is to harm our material `layer’. Why are we afraid of losing our life as long as we are the life itself?





6. The fear is mirrored in the human's eyes. He cannot express himself on a verbal level, because he lacks the mouth. This denotes that the human should first do their best to solve the issue by their own and only when absolutely necessary to ask for the participation of other individuals.



7. People should try to confront the problems and not run of them. Trying to flee won't make the problems disappear, but will only make them advance in gravity. The man is rooted in the material world and I represented this status by literary adding roots to the man’s legs. This makes the escape impossible.



8. The man with wings and bounded hands- We tie ourselves with a nine to five routine, forgetting, or simply never knowing that we have the ability and the birth right to `fly’( I used as a symbol the wings) as high as we wish to. All it takes for fulfilling the wildest dream is the strong desire to do so.



Why aren’t we being taught in school about it?



9. The magician-Life is magic, we believe it, understand it, feel it or not. And this is what maintains its glow.

Why is magic seen as a terrifying subject?

10. The woman and her refection into the two mirrors- we are interconnected with each other. We are, at the subatomic level one, which can be translated into: each of us is everybody. The white woman’s reflections are: an African woman, with the traditional lip-plate and the mad or genius –Salvador Dali.

Why do people kill and harm each other?

What establishes who we are, where we borne, when we die?

11. The couple’s birth- the natural need of finding our twin soul stays with us for a life time, till the search is successfully accomplished. Is it because the male and female were designed to match each other like two puzzle pieces.

Why is it so difficult to find the perfect partner?

12. The thinker- Take time to meditate, think and develop yourself!

13. The wreck- the forgotten or latent ideas, which we do not regard as we should. We do not value them at their real worth.

14. The leg coming from a parallel world- The intrusion of parallel universes, worlds.

What do we know about time travel?

Why is it possible to affect the future, but not the past?



The third painting is called `Steps towards fulfilment' and it sugests the necessity of personal and professional development that can bring happiness into an individual's life.

The picture below is one of the paintings that I would like you to give me the opportunity to talk about.

All my paintings are the result of my questions about this weird `reality' and about the way our identities are being manipulated and affected by it.

The first painting is actually the union of two large (40 inches/ 30 inches) canvases.

I called it `Which missing link?’ , because it is structured as a puzzle. It is my manifestation against the war in Iraq.

It symbolises the scrupulous tactics of the American politicians that made (many years before the actual start of this 21st century genocide) their detailed and perfect plan for getting into the possession of the world’s oil resources.

I have so many to say about this traumatic reality, but I will keep the description short.

On the upper side of the painting the Statue of Liberty has proudly replaced its source of light with a gas pump.

The Twin Towers are both in flames at a point when the second airplane did not attack yet. This is the proof that the airplanes were nothing but a planned show. As many entitled men say, the second tower collapsed because of bombs explosions, seconds before the plane hit it.

The central image represents, in an allegorical way, the back stage of the White House’s politics and it reveals who are the ones responsible for the innocent people’s massacre. The `men in suits’, shaking their hands as a sign of gratitude for their plan’s success. The blood on their hands is the mark of their acts. Bush and the Al Qaida representant are in good terms and the last details of the war are established and approved with a large smile of satisfaction.

How many of the world’s people know that actually, Al Qaida was founded by the Americans?

This is a part of what one can read on Wikipedia:



`What exactly al-Qaeda is, or was, remains in dispute. In the BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares, writer and journalist Adam Curtis contends that the idea of al-Qaeda as a formal organization is primarily an American invention.



Would an organisation fight against its `nest' or would it cooperate for their reciprocal benefit? The answer is not difficult.



The person with the American flag covering his face is the president of the United States of America, who is shown as the string puppet of the real criminals.