balance

Finding Balance

5/12

The 5th work of the immigration series is  called “Finding balance”. Major life changes provoque unbalance.  Immigrating requires a change of mind-set, search and understanding of the new reality. The new structure may seem confusing and the ways to function in society may need adjustments. Language, culture, clima, everything will challenge your adaptability. The door is half open and you never know what it may hold behind it. The scene is simple; door, table, different chairs where perhaps one can sit for a while and find some guidance or figure out the silence. On the walls 2 paintings: the waters look straight while the firm ground looks unbalanced. Small details and overwhelming feelings. All stages of a major change or immigration is a vast and uncomfortable ecossistem of feelings. Can you relate?

Peaceful routine.


Once again I reccour to polarities, extreams, opposites, extremities.

In my personal life the peace I always dreammed of; beauty, harmony, love and simplicity.

In the world evil, greediness, injustice, hate, disgust, stupidity, cruelty.

I don’t understand and I also don’t accept such dispairity. It is not easy to find balance between these two realities. It is impossible to feel happy and at ease inside when you know the world is burning down and falling apart in the outside. When does it break even? How does it change? Where does it end? How long more should we be endure the pain og this sick, unfair, twisted world? How do we sleep at night knowing that someone is hurting, hungry, suffering, drowning?

How do we cope?

How to survive?

We find a way to scream in silence of art.
PEACEFUL ROUTINE – Acrylics on canvas – 40×50 – 2018 – Luciana Mariano (c)