VISITOR

oil on canvas
80 x 140 cm

While watching my pictures of wolves, people often ask me why I paint them. I'll always be caught because I do not have the answer on that question. I would never choose the motive for painting according to a plan, in a rational manner and especially not strategically. My choice is always completely intuitive.
A wolf is a symbol of mishandling in society, an eternal culprit hated by people because we recognize our own atrocities when we see him. We can not take this reflection in the mirror because we like to have a false image about ourselves.
I do not like banalizing and that is why I need to defend this creature. I want to show multi-layeredness in his expression. He who, without his own will, cause such fear in us is maybe even more scared when he finds himself in the vicinity of the cruelest kind on the planet.
On the other hand, in literature, there is often a case of authorial identification with this animal because the thinking person is self-critical. That is the way to be closer to the truth. Only the mediocrity of thinks everything the most beautiful about itself, therefore morally and intellectually, or stagnates, or falls back.

POSETILAC
ulje na platnu
80 x 140 cm
Dok posmatraju moje slike na kojima su vukovi kao glavna tema, ljudi me često pitaju zašto ih slikam. Uvek budem zatečen jer ni sam nemam odgovor. Ne bih nikad birao motive za slike prema nekom planu, na racionalan način a pogotovo ne strategijski. Moj izbor je uvek potpuno intuitivan.
Česta pitanja koja mi bivaju upućena navela su me da razmislim o toj temi. Vuk je simbol neprilagođenosti u društvu, večiti krivac omražen od strane ljudi jer prepoznajemo sopstveno zverstvo kada vidimo njega. Ne možemo da podnesemo taj odraz u ogledalu jer volimo da o sebi imamo lažnu sliku.
Ne volim banalizovanje bilo čega i zato imam potrebu da odbranim ovo stvorenje. Želim da prikažem višeslojnost u njegovom izrazu. On koji, ne svojom voljom prouzrokuje toliki strah kod nas, da od vajkada plašimo decu pominjući ga, je možda još više uplašen kada se nađe u blizini najsurovije vrste na planeti.
Sa druge strane u književnosti je čest slučaj autorske identifikacije sa ovom životinjom jer je misleći čovek samokritičan i takav mora biti da bi bio bliže istini. Samo mediokritet o sebi misli sve najlepše, zato moralno i intelektualno ili stagnira, ili nazaduje.

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