by Teodora Stojanović

Artwork Description

Surrender

70.0 x 100.0 cm

Surrender Relationship with a higher being. Surrender is the complete surrender of a being to its creator. Man is a being who is fundamentally alone. As much as we are sometimes surrounded by other people, we are actually alone. While other people are a kind of apparent support, that is, only some consolation for situations in which we fail to help ourselves. The being from the picture is in some kind of prayer, he holds a heart in his hand that he is handing over to the creator, but he is also limited by the vaults of the space in which he is, his prayer seems to have been rejected or the creator does not hear it. A man is born alone and dies alone, and if he is surrounded by a crowd of people he is alone. Loneliness can best be felt when a person is overcome by some illness or pain. And especially before death itself. In illness, he first tries to overcome that condition. That struggle becomes primary for him. The pride he had disappears, petty desires, earthly aspirations disappear. Everything that was important, everything that was being chased becomes minor and irrelevant. Such a state was given to man for the purpose of purifying both spirit and body. Over time, the soul of a person becomes rough, cold, cruel (I do not mean cruelty in its full and complete meaning. People who are extremely cruel can hardly reach any states of knowledge, even in the greatest torments.) Only in such states in when he feels powerless, a person can rise above everyday life, understand and see mistakes. Only then does realization open... Because he realizes that the only way out is to turn to something higher. Only in the creator can he find solace and liberation. Salvation can only be achieved through an inner conversation with oneself and God. Many diseases can be self-healed by willpower. Illness of the body is also a reflection of the state of the mind.

Artwork Details

Medium: Mixed Media

Genre: Figurative