Original artwork description:

It’s a risky journey.
Entering a “hall of mirrors,” a kaleidoscopic world where realities are inverted into illusions, beauty into menace, can indeed be perilous. A Kafkaesque-exploration riddled with distortions, mind-altering seductions, and even the bizarre. Yet life typically demands such forays. Especially if Enlightenment is the ultimate pursuit.
One bold enough to tackle such an adventurous trip into self-discovery will often confront sheer confusion—the many faces of Human Nature.
Virtue versus Evil.
Beauty grappling with the Beast.
Conviction eclipsed by overwhelming doubt.
Such encounters with Life’s ever-bewildering existential “norms” are more than Cosmological Dualism, a passion play pitting powerful human instincts in a symbolic moralistic struggle.
More critically, this quest for certainty is rebellion, a demand for freedom. Standing defiant, refusing conformity, this pictured provocateur rejects the dystopian, a world where knowledge is tightly guarded and kept hidden by scowling centurions, bent on keeping seekers of the Truth in a wild wilderness of ever-mushrooming doubt.
She stands firm, purposeful. Cautious but still confident. Unlike any wild dreamer, or Tolstoyan anarchist, she has no desire to blow up this “Ministry of Secrets.” She simply wants entrance into this castle.
A mere mortal, invariably swept into Life’s forest of swirling, always fleeting impressions and contradictions, she also looks weary, yet still hopeful.
She knows great psychological turmoil will continue, that her struggle with what’s inspired, what’s real, the battle between the individual, the self and society always persists.
For now though, she only hopes to escape the infernal wilderness, to find some illumination, to reach those outstretched hands of benevolent, uplifting knowledge.

© Greciuhina&Kiersh

Materials used:

Acrylic