Shadows

 

The ‘’Shadows’’ component tackles human identity crises in a modern society that lacks core values in an era of globalization. What has become of mankind in this environment? A soulless pawn on a global economic chess board?

 

I am especially drawn to religious identity and values, especially the debate surrounding the wearing of Islamic headscarves. Through art, I hope to capture the paradox—the meeting between the sacred and commodification of the image of women in advertising concepts.

 

I use black paint because I’m fascinated by the shade’s depth, richness, and everything it can evoke.

 

Black is at once the sum and the absence of all colors. The perfect paradox.

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“ One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

 

— Carl Gustave Jung

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« No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. » 

 

― Gabor Maté