Lockout

The individual’s existence, evolution and changes in personality over the course of a lifetime draw social boundaries, impose societal limitations, dictate behavioral models and introduce inviolable taboos. Therefore, one’s inner life is probably the only sphere that can only be fully grasped and adequately appreciated by the individual him-or herself. To grasp the real world that surrounds us, we have to filter it through the lens of our inner perceptions. Everything existent, tangible, visible and audible is only real insofar as our senses are open and developed, only insofar as our mind remains unprejudiced.

The series Shift is comprised of various sculptural portraits of an individual in bronze: one is calm and poised (one’s external side), the other anxious to the point of panic and despair (one’s inner side). This demonstrates the painful split or fracture in the mind; in such a case, it becomes of vital importance that an individual reloads the new present and the new future.

The project, entitled Shift, began with the sculpture Shift of Consciousness, which embodies the concept of radically different aspects in our interactions with the real world.