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I AM NOT MY BODY # 1 | Margritte

Voor Nederlands KLIK HIER

EXPANSION OF SELF-IDENTITY

The first in this series is ‘The Son of Man’ by Magritte, where I feel connected to the message that Magritte conveys with this work: “The human desire to see what lies behind the visible:” I show exactly this expansion of consciousness in my version of the Son of Man. It was a fun journey of discovery in looking: The man’s right arm is turned around in the original, you can see that from the hand and the curve of the elbow. Of course I made it this way in my version as well

Original paining:

Le fils de l'homme

René Magritte | 1964

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BASISCONCEPT

OUR BODY

The first thing that stands out in this series of six works is that the people in these world-famous paintings, such as Vermeer's Milkmaid, are naked. Because these iconic personalities are naked, they are partly stripped of their personality and you suddenly see 'ordinary' people of flesh and blood. Nevertheless, the title tells a different message about the body. The title is therefore the starting point for creating these works, and is essential for the message:

I am not my personality

I am not my body

I am Spirit

INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS

With this work I am telling you that you are not a body. You are the observer of the body. You are not a 'little I' that dies after one minute or 100 years as a bag of skin and bones. You are infinite consciousness that experiences through the temporary 'vehicle' that is our body.

By identifying with our body and our personality, we deny our true Self. With this expansion of consciousness I want to give with this work the invitation to allow a greater area of possibilities and probability than is visible.

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HISTORY OF ORIGIN

The series ‘I am not my body’ came about thanks to an invitation I received to participate in an exhibition with the theme ‘nude’. This forced me to think about this subject that initially did not inspire me. The only meaningful path I wanted to take was to tell the ‘naked truth’. Who are we really in essence: we are not the body, we are spiritual energy. The question of how she could portray the phenomenon of ‘Spirit’ within the theme of nudity kept me busy for months. In the end, it was an inspiration that came to me just before I fell asleep: to strip world-famous paintings of their clothing, and with it of a piece of their identity. To my surprise, I did not find a comparable concept on the internet.

PAINTING WITH PIXELS

With great patience and precision I created this series on the computer in Photoshop. I did this by building up dozens of layers on top of each other. So it is digital craftsmanship at pixel level. The prints with high-quality inks are printed on special paper and look like artisanal oil paintings. When you look at these naked masterpieces, the original paintings will evoke a completely different emotion afterwards.