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Title: Endless opposites


For most people life is a journey through endless polarities. Good cannot exist without evil; happiness without sadness; wrong without right. As long as one remains within such realm of duality one is always surrounded by opposites and has to choose one over the other. Every choice made is a step in one of two directions. Every step taken leads to a new choice to be made...

The individual perception of dualism is mostly influenced by personal beliefs and interpretations of life events. Which in turn are primarily ruled by the dominant characteristics of human nature like desire, fear, laziness, or selfishness.

The collective perception of dualism is created through cultural norms that shift and change over time. These norms are largely shaped by influencers (individuals, religions, organizations, businesses, etc) who push and promote their own beliefs or ideas, often with hidden agendas, which inevitably are more or less dualistic.

The understanding of the nature of duality gradually reveals itself as a consequence of objective reflection on human culture. A realization that ultimately the duality of things is a human created concept. The good or evil is only so if we make it to be or impose on others that it is so.

In this image I wanted to depict the perplexity that duality imposes on a human being, and the ever present attainability of liberation.

This image is the cover of the 2006 French edition of Robert Silverberg's novel "In another country".



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Recent image comments:


John from UK wrote:June 15, 2009

Brilliant!

mike odom from usa wrote:December 18, 2008

Simply fantasic, very vivid art , amazing imagination, you have a style of your own.Where is your work located ?

Kris from U. S. of A. wrote:November 3, 2008

Wow! This looks great! This optical illusion trick works every time to get a great effect. Great job on the sky as well, and a good commentary piece on the average human mind.

Dave from USA wrote:September 23, 2008

This painting takes my breath away, thank you for this experience

Tom from US wrote:February 12, 2008

Refreshing and thought provoking!

ashley from uk wrote:April 29, 2007

youre amazing

be my friend

Vitor Bandeira from Brasil wrote:April 28, 2007

Your image shows how it would be a world created by men.

Men don´t have skills, patience or time enough to create an environment where nothing is the same.
Man just creates paterns, copies.
Man creates nothing.

God creates nature. Nature is infinite. Nature is perpetual.
God creates eternity eternally.
God creates as time passes by.

In nature, you do not create, you transform.
In nature, you cannot rule, just observe.
In nature... you are nature.

Congratulations.

vitor_bandeira@yahoo.com.br

Jose Pasillas from United States wrote:February 27, 2007

Hello my name is Jose Pasillas, your art is simply fantastic, awesome!! One question only where can I go to learn this type of art?
Please reply at my email adress at josegerapass@yahoo.com

anonymous wrote:August 22, 2006

Dawid is always interesting and changing, always thinking and looking for something new

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