Flames
Listen to the description
Τhis artwork is based on the phrase: “From a powerful, internal, conflict-fight we always win…”
Analysis of the work
- The conflict is captured with two faces at the base of the shadow. A nice face, (bottom right), and an ugly face, (bottom left).
- The power of the conflict is reflected in the fire. This conflict must burn… that is why the sculpture is titled “Flames”.
- So, whether we lose from this conflict or we win, we always win… That is why a winged Victory emerges through the flames.
The work is connected to the rest of the unit (Mind Caves) through this struggle that we must give in order to ascend and exit the cave. There is also a reference to Plato’s dialectic (we reach Truth – Light through conflicts-fights).
Listen to the poem
Flames
I’m burning in the fire I lit inside me…
captive of my weakness…
slave of the present and of sloth…
doomed to be a defeatist…
uncontrollingly impassible…
beggar of the moment I will fight..
if I fight…
I WILL WIN…
win or lose…