ABYSSES -
ABYSSES -
“THE ABYSSES” is a series of abstract illustrations inspired by existentialist thoughts and centering on the question of being—as an individual, in the world, and in relation to others. Each artworks explore themes of meaning-making and nothingness, which visually appear as simultaneously opposed/contrasted, and as fusing and merging.
ABYSSES (1)/ Illustration, 2024/ "We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has." —Milan Kundera
ABYSSES (2)/ Illustration, 2024/ "This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant." —Emil Cioran
ABYSSES (3)/ Illustration, 2024/ "In this organically insufficient and fragmentary world, the individual is set to live fully, wishing to make of his own existence an absolute." —Emil Cioran
ABYSSES (4)/ Illustration, 2024/ "I am nothing in this universe, yet I feel that mine is the only real existence." — Emile Cioran
ABYSSES (5)/ Illustration, 2024/ "We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication." —Emil Cioran