Man On The Beach (2021) Peinture par Aeon

Oil on canvas, 100x80cm (39.4x31.5in), 2021.

It was a big-tanned man on the beach. His back was so hairy that it immediately caught my attention. But when I started sketching his torso, he turned his head in my direction, realizing me portraying him, and quickly walked away. That is what happens when drawing random people—you could lose your object at any moment as people are not just constantly on the move—they can even walk away. Meanwhile, I was stuck without his legs and did not make the rest body in time. However, I decided to draw a special stand-like, a kind of substitute for legs. I loved how surreal it turned out! Working at the studio on the painting, I combined this man's sketch and the minimalistic background into a new topic with a semantic message. There is some sense of the imminent future on this reddish, not quite a Sun, but a sphere in the upper left. It is still out of reach but coming into form already, and it might evoke feelings beyond the mind's capability to define and comprehend them. The bottom area of the painting also has its story. It was the end of shellfish season when dead bodies of thousands of shellfish could be seen lying along the shore, presented in the painting in a slightly veiled form.

✔ The painting is signed on the front and back. It is on a gallery-wrapped canvas with finished black edges and comes ready to hang. "Man On The Beach" was conceived and completed between November 2020/January 2021 at the Otherworldly Dream Studio in Jerusalem.

About the series "Intelligent Water":

The changes we have wreaked on the Earth clearly show and are prescient of the future disaster. However, as an artist, I always strive to underline the presence of Light in every work (meaning the Light in a broader sense). I think this is our only hope in these dark times, and it is essential for me to identify my work precisely with that.

I like the hypothesis that Water is a thinking substance of Earth that catches the signals from the Ether and transforms them into some psychic energy. We are not independent creatures and are intensely dependent on Water (among other things), and it's a fact that hard to deny. We live on the living planet of an intelligent ocean, where, as in the Strugatskys' "Solaris," Water is a form of life. We are nothing more than carriers of particles of its intellect.

My inspiration for this project revolves and impels from around the beach area with a clear center point - interaction humans with Water. I started by observing and sketching people on the beach. Then I worked on actual paintings in the studio. As I wanted to make my work more laconic and neater, at some point, I felt the need to get rid of minor elements, leaving only the most "precious" ones. I also felt the minimalistic background could have an exciting impact on the composition. So I first made the background, then constructed the center elements using the prepared sketches.

I think of this series of paintings as bold surreal revelations that might equip us to consider radically new views of reality and reflect a unified picture of the world, where everything is infinitely interconnected.

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