Human relationships and a feeling of
loneliness represent artistic preoccupations of Mladen Culic. Eternal quest to
achieve unity with our other half, largely determines our actions, behaviour
and relationships with others. These pursuits often result in intense and
contradictory emotional state. But these dramatic emotions often inspire
artists to create new works.
In his new painting cycle, the author
returns to the digital images printed on the forex while exploring various
options that new digital media provide. Some images are fully digitally
prepared 'painted' by software and digital
'brushes', and a few 'analogue' images were additionally processed by
computer tools. He also continues to explore the motives of the previous cycle
(GMH , ZAGREB,
2009), specifically anthropomorphic silhouettes within the undefined space.
Their multiplication in different colours provokes different psychological
experiences of the observer. The new element that is widely used is the mirror
symmetry - evoking the kaleidoscope effect. Those mirror images symbolically
express the two sides of the same (unhappy love) story. Although the artist
still uses bright colours a tendency toward dark colour scheme is
apparent.
It is interesting that the pictures were
named after melancholic songs of various artists. The exception is the image of
"Mu (n) k" as an association for Munks "Scream" which
opposes the silence, or bound scream, inability to cry. (word "muk"
in Croatian means silent scream, inability to produce a sound because of the
amount of pain)
In
general this cycle deals with the painters past. The presence of Impressionistic
influence, visible in his early works, now manifests through the rough
brushstrokes, flat patches of colour and light, and vibrant surface. He also
reinterpreted some of his older works amplifying the original concepts. For
example painting "Carnival is Over" is a reinterpretation of his
first painting and symbolically marks the end of a life period, and this
painting cycle.
Although computer technology often seems
cold and emotionless, this exhibition is a highly emotional display of the painter's
personality.
Jasmina
Skočilić
ECKHART TOLLE
POWER OF NOW - EXCERPT (BOTTOM OF THE PAGE )
IN
POWER WE ENTRUST THE LOVE ADVOCATED
Dead can dance
Sail on silver
wings
through this storm
What fortune love may bring
Back to my arms again
The love of a former golden age.
I am disabled by fears concerning which course to
take.
For, now that wheels are turning,
I find my faith deserting me...
The way lies through our love;
There can be no other means to the end,
Or keys to my heart...
You will never find.
FATHER
AND DAUGHTER
PAUL
SIMON
I’m gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you’ll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loved his daughter more than I love you
THE CARNIVAL IS OVER
Dead can dance
Outside
The storm clouds gathering,
Moved silently along the dusty boulevard.
Where flowers turning crane their fragile necks
So they can in turn
Reach up and kiss the sky.
They are driven by a strange desire
Unseen by the human eye
Outside
The circus gathering
Moved silently along the rain swept boulevard.
The procession moved on, the shouting is over
The fabulous freaks are leaving town.
They are driven by a strange desire
Unseen by the human eye.
The carnival is over.
SEEKERS WHO ARE LOVERS
Cocteau
twins
I can't stop hungering for
otherness
I forgot the use,
My head fell out of the sky and crashed into my palms
Jesus sky valentine
Love
we're on the tip of it
You are a woman just as you are a man
MEDUSA
Brendan Perry
When all you
have left are your memories
And diamonds and pearls for company
I'll be sailing to St. Lucia on the ocean breeze
With the moon and my scars for company
In your bedroom you keep an iron cage
Where a blackbird sings her freedom song
For you know the true value of having slaves
They sing the saddest of songs
Medusa you robbed me of my youth
Abandoned me on the tropic of solitude
Seducer of the shipwrecked and forlorn
You told me to undress
Then crowned my head with thorns
ALWAYS RETURNING
Brian Eno
HALFWAY TO FIVE POINTS
Anna Ternheim
How to get to fivepoints
Make a wrong turn you’ll know
If you're thinking of going
Think no more
Who's taking you down there
What's his name let me know
The price he offers
around the corner of love
Halfway to Fivepoints
Is as far as you'll come
Halfway with high hopes
of love
So be careful my love
Be careful my girl
Be careful with love
How to get to Fivepoints?
How would I know?
A place so distant and
so long ago
Halfway to Fivepoints
Is as far as you'll come
Halfway with high hopes
Of love
HERE LIES LOVE
David Byrne
Is it a sin to
love too much?
Is it a sin to
care?
I’d do it all
for you
How can it be
unfair?
The most
important things are love and beauty
It doesn’t
matter if you’re rich or poor
To prosper and
to fly
A basic human
right
The feeling in
your heart that you’re secure
Is it a sin to
love too much?
Is it a sin to
care?
I’d do it all
for you
How can it be
unfair?
I know that
when my number’s up
When I am
called by God above
Don’t have my
name inscribed into the stone
Just say, “Here
lies love!” “Here lies love!” Here lies love!”
WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS
Moby
(Reasons)
Bebe
I have reasons,
to look for you
I have a necessity to see you, hear you, talk to
I have reasons, to wait for you
I have reasons, many reasons
To ask the wind for you to come back
even if it is like a shadow
The air smells like you, my house falls because you are not here
My sheets, my hair, my clothes are looking for you
My feet are like cardboard
My bed becomes cold and gigantic
And in it I get lost
My flowers die of sadness
FATHER AND DAUGHTER
Paul
Simon
I believe the light that
shines on
you
Will shine on you forever
And though I can't guarantee
There's nothing scary hiding under your bed
I’m gonna stand guard
Like a postcard of a Golden Retriever
And never leave till I leave you
With a sweet dream in your head
I’m gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you’ll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loved his daughter more than I love you
PORCELAIN
Moby
In my dreams I'm dying all
the
time
When I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye
BY THIS RIVER LYRICS
Brian Eno
Here we are
Stuck by this river,
You and I
Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down.
You talk to me
as if from a distance
And I reply
With impressions chosen from another time, time, time,
From another time…
Anna
Ternheim
SONG TO THE SIREN
Cocteau
twins
Long afloat on shipless
oceans
I did all my best to smile
'til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang-Sail to me .Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am , here I am
Waiting to hold you
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, 'touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow
O my heart, o my heart shies from the sorrow
LIVE
TOMORROW
Laleh
t's cold around me, the night
is
young
The sun has fallen
And I've become the lonely one
The moon is dancing among the clouds
And my knees are shaking
And my dreams are braking
But I know I live
But I know I live, today
ECKHART
TOLLE
Love/Hate Relationships
The reason why the romantic special love relationship is such an intense
and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer
liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack and
incompleteness that is part of the human ego condition in its unredeemed
and unenlightened state.
There is a physical as well as a psychological dimension to this state.
Physical
On the physical level, you are obviously not whole, nor will you ever
be: You are either a man or a woman, which is to say, one-half of the
whole.
On this level, the longing for wholeness, the return to oneness,
manifests as male-female attraction, man's need for a woman, woman's
need for a man.
It is an almost irresistible urge for union with the opposite energy
polarity. The root of this physical urge is a spiritual one: the longing
for an end to duality, a return to the state of wholeness.
Sexual union is the closest you can get to this state on the physical
level. This is why it is the most deeply satisfying experience that the
physical realm can offer. But sexual union is no more than a fleeting
glimpse of wholeness, an instant of bliss.
As long as it is unconsciously sought as a means of salvation, you are
seeking the end of duality on the level of form, where it cannot be
found. You are given a tantalizing glimpse of heaven, but you are not
allowed to dwell there, and find yourself again in a separate body.
Psychological
On the psychological level, the sense of lack and incompleteness is, if
anything, even greater than on the physical level.
As long as you are identified with the ego mind, you have an externally
derived sense of self.
That is to say, you get your sense of who you are from things that
ultimately have nothing to do with who you are:
* your social role,
* possessions,
* external appearance,
* successes,
* failures,
* belief systems, and so on.
This false, mind-made self, the ego, feels vulnerable, insecure, and is
always seeking new things to identify with to give it a feeling that it
exists. But nothing is ever enough to give it lasting fulfillment. Its
fear remains; its sense of lack and neediness remains.
Addictive Clinging
If in your relationship you experience both love and the opposite of
love—attack, emotional violence, and so on—then it is likely that you
are confusing ego attachment and addictive clinging with love.
You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.
True love has no opposite.
If your love has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego-need
for a more complete and deeper sense of your self, a need that the other
person cannot meet for you. It is the ego's substitute for salvation or
God.
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move
through your own pain.
Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the
substance you are addicted to—alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a
person—you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.
That is why there is so much unhappiness, so much pain in most intimate
relationships.
They do not cause the pain and unhappiness.
They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.
Q: What do you mean by romantic special relationships?
Unless and until you access the consciousness frequency of Presence (God
within), all relationships, and particularly intimate relationships,
are deeply flawed and ultimately dysfunctional.
They may seem perfect for a while, such as when you are in love, but
invariably that apparent perfection gets disrupted as arguments,
conflicts, dissatisfaction, and emotional or even physical violence
occur with increasing frequency.
It seems that most romantic relationships become love/hate relationships
before long.
Love can then turn into
* savage attack,
* feelings of hostility, or
* complete withdrawal of affection at the flick of a switch.
This is considered normal.
True salvation is a state of freedom from fear, from suffering, from a
perceived state of lack and insufficiency and therefore from all
wanting, needing, grasping and clinging.
Special Relationships
The special relationship oscillates for a while, a few months or a few
years, between the polarities of love and hate, and it gives you as much
pleasure as it gives you pain. It is not uncommon for couples to become
addicted to those cycles. Their drama makes them feel alive.
When a balance between the positive/negative polarities is lost and the
emotionally negative, destructive cycles occur with increasing frequency
and intensity, which tends to happen sooner or later, then it will not
be long before the special relationship finally collapses.
It may appear that if you could only eliminate the emotional negative or
destructive cycles, then all would be well and the relationship would
flower beautifully, but alas, this is not possible.
The polarities are mutually interdependent. You cannot have one without
the other. The positive already contains within itself the as yet
unmanifested negative. Both are in fact different aspects of the same
dysfunction.
I am speaking here of what is commonly called romantic special
relationships, not of true love, which has no opposite because it arises
from beyond the ego mind.
True love as a continuous state is as yet very rare, as rare as
conscious human beings. Brief and elusive glimpses of true love,
however, are possible whenever there is a gap in the stream of ego mind.
The negative hate side of a special relationship is, of course, more
easily recognized as dysfunctional than the positive one. And it is also
easier to recognize the source of negativity in your partner than to
see it in yourself. It can manifest in many forms:
* possessiveness,
* jealousy,
* control,
* withdrawal, and
* unspoken resentment,
* the need to be right,
* insensitivity and self-absorption,
* emotional demands and manipulation,
* the urge to argue, criticize, judge, blame, or attack, anger,
* unconscious revenge for past pain inflicted by a parent,
* rage and physical violence.
On the positive side, you are in love with your partner. This is at
first a deeply satisfying state. You feel intensely alive.
Your existence has suddenly become meaningful because someone needs you,
wants you, and makes you feel special, and you do the same for him or
her. When you are together, you feel whole.
The feeling can become so intense that the rest of the world fades into
insignificance.
However, you may also have noticed that there is a neediness and
clinging quality to that intensity. You become addicted to the other
person. He or she acts on you like a drug.
You are on a high when the drug is available, but even the possibility
or the thought that he or she might no longer be there for you can lead
to jealousy, possessiveness, attempts at manipulation through emotional
blackmail, blaming and accusing.
If the other person does leave you, this can give rise to the most
intense hostility or the most profound grief and despair.
In an instant, loving tenderness can turn into a savage attack or
dreadful grief.
Where is the love now?
Can love change into its opposite in an instant?
Was it love in the first place, or just an addictive grasping and
clinging.
