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8. The Odyssey — Homer

In the Standard Literary Model, The Odyssey behaves like a baryon: a bound state of wanderer, memory, and fate locked into an oscillatory pattern by the strong force of home. Odysseus is a quark of identity that refuses confinement yet can never fully escape it; every island he encounters is another local minimum in the … Continue reading 8. The Odyssey — Homer

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6. The Upanishads (India)

The Upanishads function as renormalization techniques for inner life. They propose methods for subtracting superficial divergences—ego, desire—to reveal a more fundamental field of Brahman. Practices they recommend (meditation, ethical discipline) are operators reducing self-interaction terms and allowing consciousness to experience unified modes. In SLM, the Upanishads describe a path to lower-energy coherence: when the individual … Continue reading 6. The Upanishads (India)

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Reading the canon of World Literature

Chapter 20; Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac.July 2nd, 2015Summary Most of the action is centered around a boarding house called Maison Vauquer, ran by a widow, Mme. Vauquer. The story relates mostly to the interactions between Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who bankrupted himself to give his daughters a better future; a secretive … Continue reading Reading the canon of World Literature

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An Emporium of Order and Chaos.

The title and image of this post refer to an artistically diary in which I’m resuming and catalogizing my artistic and literary creations, larded with thoughts, philosophies, and observations that induced them.The chronological order in which the works were produced has been abandoned in favor of a systematic approach were the subjects are brought together … Continue reading An Emporium of Order and Chaos.

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Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm

This installation critiques urbanism for potentially perpetuating a systemic gentrify-cation, emphasizing that the ideal of creating cultural-historical homogenic modern real estate overlooks the economic realities faced by many inhabitants of poorer neighborhoods, which often cannot sustain such developments. The European subsides for such projects are too often getting into the pockets of real estate project … Continue reading Creative Urbanism, Installation, mixed techniques on wood W 400 x H240 cm x D50 cm

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Literary Criticism and the Systems Theory

Although I'm not really thinking that someone missed my weekly ramblings about all the innuendo that occasionally flutters from my brain through my finger tops into my blog, I still want to acknowledge towards those who do that I'm still alive and rambling. I'm still one of those old fashioned guys who believe that the … Continue reading Literary Criticism and the Systems Theory

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Azrael. Acrylic on a black canvas 52 x 78 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

Azrael is the fifth installation of a series of five #paintings I’ve made around a time that coincides with the yearly festival of #Halloween 2023. The frames contain some earlier reflections I had about the aftermath of the recent #pandemic. The stylistic concept deviates substantially from most of my other works, although parallels can be … Continue reading Azrael. Acrylic on a black canvas 52 x 78 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

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Fear. Acrylic on a black canvas 80 x 60 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)

Fear is the fourth installation of a series of five #paintings I’ve made around a time that coincides with the yearly festival of #Halloween 2023. The frames contain some earlier reflections I had about the aftermath of the recent #pandemic. The stylistic concept deviates substantially from most of my other works, although parallels can be … Continue reading Fear. Acrylic on a black canvas 80 x 60 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)

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The Clan. Acrylic on a black canvas 80 x 60 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023).

The Clan is the third installation of a series of five #paintings I’ve made around a time that coincides with the yearly festival of #Halloween 2023. The frames contain some earlier reflections I had about the aftermath of the recent #pandemic. The stylistic concept deviates substantially from most of my other works, although parallels can … Continue reading The Clan. Acrylic on a black canvas 80 x 60 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023).

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The Conclave. Acrylic on a black canvas 78 x 52 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)

The Conclave is the second installation of a series of five #paintings I’ve made around a time that coincides with the yearly festival of #Halloween 2023. The frames contain some earlier reflections I had about the aftermath of the recent #pandemic. The stylistic concept deviates substantially from most of my other works, although parallels can … Continue reading The Conclave. Acrylic on a black canvas 78 x 52 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)

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Danse Macabre. Acrylic on a black canvas 78 x 52 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)

Danse Macabre is the first installation of a series of five #paintings I’ve made around a time that coincides with the yearly festival of #Halloween 2023. The frames contain some earlier reflections I had about the aftermath of the recent #pandemic. The stylistic concept deviates substantially from most of my other works, although parallels can … Continue reading Danse Macabre. Acrylic on a black canvas 78 x 52 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)

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Wokean Nation. Acrylic on canvas W 30 cm x H 20 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

#Woke and #anti-woke #crusaders are the two prominent movements that give shape at the current #political landscape. Both #movements #cancel the works from artists and writers that don't wholeheartedly support their rhetoric. It is accompanied with violent street clashes between two parties with opposite views about fundamental values. One wants to curb the rising gun-violence … Continue reading Wokean Nation. Acrylic on canvas W 30 cm x H 20 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

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The Dark Sides of Religion (part 5/5): Replenishing at the Well of Justification. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

In this work I'm focusing on extreme fundamentalists who believe that their religion gives them the right to tell everyone else what they are and are not allowed to do and commands them to kill certain non-believers. Religion is often used as a well of justification for some of the most horrendous and heinous human … Continue reading The Dark Sides of Religion (part 5/5): Replenishing at the Well of Justification. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

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The Dark Sides of Religion (part 1/5): Ascetism. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

Since religious fundamentalism is on the rise in all segments of our society, I decided to dedicate some of my artistic reflections to the subject that motivates some extreme fundamentalists to believe that their religion gives them the right to tell everyone else what they are and are not allowed to do and commands them … Continue reading The Dark Sides of Religion (part 1/5): Ascetism. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.

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The psycho-historical character of Venice

This canvas (mixed technics on canvas 90 x 90 cm) is a derivate from the psycho-historical map of Venice. The kaleidoscopic perspective allowed me to distillate from the map the intrinsic characteristics of its psycho-historical vibes. Every city has a unique psycho-historical character that reflects its collective memory, culture, and identity. Its architecture, landmarks, streets, … Continue reading The psycho-historical character of Venice

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Venice: A Psycho-Historical Map

The artwork “Venice: A psycho-historical Map" (mixed technics on canvas 90 x 130 cm) invites people not to obey existing opinions and common stories about Venice, but to slip away and with confidence listen to their own feelings and play with the city’s atmospheres. It’s concept is based upon the premise that cities have psycho-historical … Continue reading Venice: A Psycho-Historical Map