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<p><em><strong>"Give me more images" , 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, 80 x 100 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>What makes people tick?</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 some, life is a trap of boredom, but the imagery is a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power of images can generate an inexorable addiction that has to be gratified. Here and now!</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 becoming addicted to images, we have grown into an “iconoclastic” society, and people are, more and more, dependent on visual representations. They need the escapist and distracting effect of imagery.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Their imagination must be triggered day by day, as the monotony of daily life has to be set on fire, continuously, not tomorrow, but today. They don’t want their chaotic thinking disturbed.</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 life is a decoy of boredom, they claim inflammatory, entertaining, dominant characters.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Since many are totally desensitized, they may adore gruesome scenes of cruelty and suffering. There is no fear of overexposure.</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 fragmentation of our awareness may trigger dizzying vertigo in the chaos of our living. As such, an overwhelming flurry of connectivity and images generate, thereby, an oversaturation in our brain, and the overabundance makes us anxious, fractured and insecure. This might, in turn, actuate us to cut the wire with the world and stumble into an estranging and contentious cocoon of self-absorption, while off-loading the lush supply of social interaction.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Life becomes, then, an intricate maneuvering ground for walking a fine line between sound connectedness and crumbling consciousness, between unflinching cohesion and atomizing fragmentation.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: video and television</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the pictureː woman in front of tv</strong></em></p>

Give_me_more_images_1
<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal" align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><em>"Was it a bird, was it a plane…? <span style="font-family: Tahoma;">" , by </span></em></strong><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Tahoma;"><strong><em>Erik Pevernagie</em></strong></span></span></a><strong><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> , Oil on canvas</span>(80 x  100 cm) <span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></em></strong></span></span></p> <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><strong><em>Everything is in the “perception”. Is reality to be taken for granted? Is truth a 24 carat product? Is life a real enterprise and is it an unreal adventure? Is it a virtual joke? Is it a surreal experiment? Is it an imaginary sketch? "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a twister?"</em></strong></span></p>

Was it a bird, was it a plane…?
<p><em><strong>"Feeling like a fallen star" , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> (100 x 100 cm), Oil on canvas.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>We may all be </strong></em><a title="Star" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Star"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>stars</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>. We may all move in the </strong></em><a title="Sky" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sky"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>sky</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> of our dreams.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>We may all rise to the top of the universe, look down on the small things of life and then fall down, suddenly. We are merely dust: we are stardust. We are all made of stardust. "We are all made of stars." ( "</strong></em><a title="Moby" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Moby"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Moby</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>" )</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The universe expands every day. Everyday humans are born and stars are born. Every day humans and stars die: They come together and then they fall apart.</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Temporality and the fragile condition of humans</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Star with girl '</strong></em></p>

Like a fallen star
<p><em><strong>"Final decision" , 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  xx</strong></em></p> <p><em style="color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong>Let us not focus on the chink in the canvas of the darkness but look at the light piercing through it.</strong></em></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 find the natural rhythm and strike a perfect cord, we can sing our “own” song tuning our life's signature.</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>If we put the sterile mechanism of our brain on hold, we can view an ocean of enticing, eye-opening perspectives. Life offers us an array of choices allowing us to discover a spray of overpowering colors, and hear overwhelming new sounds, and smell the intense fragrances of nature. People may have problems when they have to make vital decisions. Thoughtful resolutions must empower us to become functioning and confident if we want to take control of our life.</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>The discovery of new human surroundings can enable us to make choices that allow us to create a better quality of life and restructure our perception.</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>If our good intentions are hinged on ignorance or figments, we remain anyhow responsible for our acts and must assume our decisions, making amends for damage. If we want to eschew awkward entanglements, we shall sharpen our perception, stay on top of what is truly happening worldwide and what our inner circles experience, and understand how they react to sensitive issues.</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"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon:</em></strong><em> Choice and action</em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Person ready to go for it.</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>

Final_decision
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"><em><strong>Life out there 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 xx</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"><em style="color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><strong>Life is a spread of surprises, and it is both a privilege and  a challenge to react to things and events and find the right answers to thorny questions. In this process, however, it might be wise to change first our perception and our way of looking at things before wanting persistently to change those very things and altering their hallmark.</strong></em></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>Sometimes, life presents us with challenging conditions, and trying to navigate them can be utterly overwhelming. Since our most powerful asset is the ability to make choices for ourselves, this freedom to choose, we must conquer, cherish dearly, and practice cleverly.</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>Liberty is a supreme precious good. It is our compass and reacts to our encounters, bumps into new realities, and navigates through the complexity of our world. It is map-reading the focus of our attention and listening to the wisdom of our past. Our freedom shall follow the signals of the lighthouse of our emotional intelligence and, at the same time, take account of the social veracities.</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>While our liberty is steering us through the whims of our desires and the ups and downs of our expectations, we must ensure that the puzzle pieces of our destination fit into the mystery structures of the others. We learn to avoid pitfalls or hopeless flops using our awareness and freedom of choice.</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>As many people feel secluded, they may look forward to breaking free from the restrictions that they have had to suffer or that they have imposed upon themselves. Wanting to leave their imprisonment to meet ‘life out there,’ they may become confused as they have difficulties adapting to their new-found liberty.</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>Life is a mysterious adventure full of unexpected happenings and captivating episodes with intriguing revelations. We merely have to squeeze it gently and enjoy each drop by only reaching out for “real life, out there.”</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"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon</em></strong><em>: Real versus fake living</em></span></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: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point of the picture</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">: Person reassessing things</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p><em> </em></p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Life out there
<p><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"</strong><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus" title="Sisyphus"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Sisyphus</strong></span></span></a><strong>' hardship on the hill" , 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><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>As we are standing on a dazzling cliff, overwhelmed by a blizzard of unanswered questions, the alarming immateriality of our living may cry out to us, and our consciousness may ask us to account for what we are doing or for what we have not done. That moment can be the instant we might engineer our future with destiny.</strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, repeating this action forever, Sisyphus did what so many people still do nowadays. Many cannot stand the unbearable routine, with the sun rising every day in the east and sinking into the west, and show unrelenting frustrations provoked by the monotonous and useless efforts they make every day.</strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Cornered in a Kafkaesque situation, they have the impression of living a life with mainly intricate, weird, or irrational incidents and feel crushed by the administrative establishments that force them to execute senseless actions. It arouses, then, feelings of vulnerability, disorientation, and absurdity.</strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Feeling confronted with the absurdity of life may sometimes nurture personal satisfaction for those who like to set a significant task or create a compassionate mission. In so doing, the seal of absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a ‘Sisyphus’ status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience.</strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Clear-sightedness, persistence, and transcendence can be excellent antidotes for ultimate peace of mind and buoyancy in life and sometimes valuable cures against social and administrative bashing.</strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Be that as it may, if we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again.</strong></span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong> Trying to attain the inaccessible might be a pure waste of time. Still, however, the blunt attempt to challenge the ultimate hurdles to reach the untouchable can kindle a glow in the dusk and become a lighting beacon of resilience and throw us out of ourselves into an inspiring fairytale of horizons to nurture our dreams.</strong></span></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Absurdity of life,</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: </strong></em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Man" title="Man"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Man</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> climbing a rock</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"><em> </em></p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Sisyphus on the hill
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Time - Die Zeit - Le temps (50 x 70 cm) </span></strong></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><em><span style="color: #333333;">A la recherche du temps perdu. </span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">Watching time go by. Panta rei.</span></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p>

Time - Die Zeit - Le temps
<p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"><em><strong>The day the mirror was talking back", 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 80 cm, oil on canvas. </strong></em></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring. The exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or the flattering praise of fabrications may tempt many now and again.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Many have acquired a particular skill of developing sophisticated showboating talent and a convincing gift of playing for the gallery. Through their accomplished grandstanding and their imaginative attention-seeking manipulations, they become experts in impressing their discussion partners. How many baloney wordmongers have not done everything possible to impact people using unethical tricks and words without real content?</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>When the moment comes that their parallel truth collides with their "real truth," they may have a hard time subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their fictional world.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>If their presence becomes too controversial and irritating, the day comes that their conceit is blowing up in their faces. The mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion and talks back mercilessly while the truth becomes overwhelming and unavoidable.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Many may have to fight their prejudices or doubtful means of action. Some can correct them and adjust their thinking pattern. Others never give in. They prefer to stick with their dirty mind in the mud.</em></strong></span></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"><strong><em>Since prejudices are shallow or false judgments, infiltrating our mind in the absence of dynamic reflection, we have got to coach ourselves to prevent intense emotional discomfort or irreparable harm</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon</strong> : Reality and wishful thinking</em></p> <p><em> </em><em><strong>Factual starting point:</strong> Man confronting mirror</em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

The day the mirror was talking back.
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>"Keeping up with the Joneses"</strong> - <strong>"Jones's label"</strong> , by <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie" style="color: #3366bb; background: none;"><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></a>, oil on canvas,(100 x 80 cm) x</p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>We expect populists to be popular. However, what can be more inconsistent and nonsensical than “unpopular” populists. They start doing everything to fit the job and are gritting their teeth so hard that they shatter them all and are chewed to bits. The moral … let us be genuine, humble, and coherent instead of stumbling from a vainglorious stance into the opposite.</strong></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Neighbors can be a benchmark to define social status. Demonstration and accumulation of material goods are a way to prove one's socio-economic or cultural superiority. Through conspicuous consumption, one can establish a position on the social ladder.</strong></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Many want to live in a society of appearances. The world is a show, and the show must be a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful, and the fortunate.</strong></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>The invulnerable and the exclusive people live like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, nobody can touch them, and there is no fear or guilt of overexposing luxury and fortune. Belair must be able to snub at Beverly Hills with total peace of mind.</strong></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>The wish to copy-paste the glittering fish meets the gnawing and demanding need to keep up the living standard. Many depend on excessive spending to realize the societal show. They buy gadgets they don't need at all, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for while infringing their corporeal and financial capacities, merely to pay doctors and psychiatrists.</strong></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>In their feverish and unbridled efforts to "do as the Jones's do," they are trapped in a reverse situation that they wanted to escape. By living beyond their means, they feel profoundly frustrated and consider themselves as failures and damned losers.</strong></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Giving up both the obsession with sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self, and appreciate being "in" the moment. Rather than continually grumbling about "owning," "not owning," or "not possessing enough," why not delight in the healing enchantment of the little moments of every day</strong>.</span></em></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> <strong>Phenomenon:</strong> Demonstration and accumulation of material goods</span></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">: Label in coat</span></em></p>

"Keeping up with the Joneses"
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