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“Fear of the white page” by Erik Pevernagie, 80 x 100 cm

Fear may oust people into the dimness of disruption. Let us instead transcend darkness and create room for light to shine. Now is the moment, and the "now" is the stepping stone that allows us to forge ahead, with an abundance of awareness and understanding, and without obtrusive egos.

Art and beauty have the unsuspected force of triggering mental power that gives people courage and confidence to steam ahead. Art and beauty bring to life unfulfilled hope, creative imagination, and bountiful goodwill.

Through art, we learn to understand ourselves and light up the veiled angles in our minds. It teaches us how to get hold of life and get a sense of the shades in the wild richness of the abundant diversity that stretches through our daily experience. It gives us a foothold in the estranging landscapes we cross during our life journey and helps us figure out the wisdom behind the countless signs and tokens.

Let us not be devastated by the grim wings of fear fluttering in the twisting patches of our minds. By empowering the dynamic force of our brainwaves, we can stir the lame blots to overturn the hinders of fear and give rise to confidence and creativity.

Roberto Puvia comments on this picture and theme:

“Fear of the white page” is the effective translation of sentiments into visual symbols.

There is a search for the immediateness of icons, to represent the complexity of feelings that other languages can rarely encompass.

Most surprisingly, there is an achievement of straightness and a rigorous definition talking about ambiguity, doubt, or contradiction.

The message, like a light beam across the fog of the human condition, calls our attention to the fragment, to help us to explore the universe.

The detail is chosen as the starting point of the possible knowledge, deepening our perception and conscience.

The first pieces of a puzzle, we have to assemble, are presented to the beholder.

The moment is frozen as a password to disclose eternity.

The choice of the technical parameters further materializes the philosophical approach of the "essence": the flatness of the perspective, the geometrical shapes, the narrow chromatic range, the use of material elements such as sand and metal files somehow recalling the Art of ancient Egypt, an art based on the language of icons and symbols, to explore and explain the mystery.

It is not a limit that is faced, but a precise choice that is made.

In ‘Fear of the white page’ there is a clear perception of a material representation of the immaterial and the inexplicable. The terror of the new, the panic of the beginning, the ‘Horror vacui’ affects each man’s endeavor.

The fear of the white page, which is the fear of acting and -at the same time- is the fear of the guilty absence of our action.

The white page is the effective symbol of the fear we have to bear for a living; it is the portrait of the unbearable loudness of living.

Phenomenon: Fear of starting and creating