The dissociated man

The Dissociated Man – Triptych

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  1. The Fine
  2. The Golden Chest
  3. The gemstones

Three paintings about the human situation – to constantly find oneself under doctrines that make one live dissociated. To live without being attached to one's culture and traditions, to one's innermost human values, to one's religion or one's person. When the redefinition of stable values ​​destroys the established.

These works have been created as beings about to dissolve in a landscape altered by the storm that threatens (in two of the works) in the distance, and that will sweep away the last attempts at homogeneity, even taking with it the precious things protected at the feet of an incomplete individual, like precious colored eggs. In the work with the golden breast (the first painted in this series), we see how the bodily elements represented in the eyes, lips and red fibers (muscles) begin to be separated from the whole by the force of the storm. Arms and legs are no longer there to escape, leaving the remaining subordinate elements to the fate of the storm.

The double portrait of the two-sided face is the most representative of this dissociation – a psychological phenomenon in which the individual no longer truly sees himself within his true emotional self. The crystalline background like water is the mirror in which he sees himself and does not recognize himself. The individual looking at us in profile or from the front can be the second image – the true and recognizable one – but they can also both be a mirage of a third something, the one looking at the work (the mirror of a reality). Here the elements of the face are unrecognizable: the teeth float like balloons inside a dark mouth with necrotic lips, the skin slowly falls off in an act of (real?) decay, the ear is being cut off and an eyeball tries to leave its socket to abandon the profile figure. Who am I? (the one looking at the work?) The man in profile or the other looking at me from the front as in an imaginary mirror? Am I the two that are seen in the work? One who accepts himself, looks forward, and another who hides with his profile gaze?

The landscape is represented with a horizontal sky line, Gothic in its essence.

Don't forget that dissociative disorders are mental conditions that involve a loss of connection between thoughts, memories, emotions, surroundings, behavior, and identity. They can also be the result of social engineering, applied to create a weakened individual for later manipulation. These conditions include escaping from reality and its forms (as in the works), which causes problems with controlling everyday life (the objects flying in the wind). Dissociative disorders often arise as a reaction to upsetting, anxiety-provoking, or painful events and help keep difficult memories at bay (the storm, old age, and others). Dissociated, we can lose collective and individual memory, to the point of disconnecting from our own identity. When we are bombarded with climate change, democratic wars, ethnic and religious cleansing, with cowardly redefinitions of moral and ethical values, as well as the postmodern constructions of man and woman, one can end up in a deep dissociation – something that these three works attempt to leave as evidence on the artistic plane.

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