Mind Pollution

20 December 2022 / 15 January 2023

Domina Coral Bay Café, Sharm El Sheik, Egypt

 

The worst type of pollution is the pollution of the mind, and it is the cause of all the other forms of pollutions. Environmental, financial, political or systemic pollution (corruption) find its roots in the greed and self concerned of individuals suffering from the pollution of their minds. What is mind pollution?

What I mean by mind-pollution is the number of nega- tive thoughts absorbed by the mind without us noticing it. Sometimes we do notice them but do nothing as we are unaware of the art of managing our emotions and mind. These negative thoughts or the mind pollutants have a grave impact on our behaviour and emotions and drain our creative energy. My arts include: imaginary fears, negative thinking, complacency and procrastination, dogmatic paradigms, judging attitude, need for making others adjust to our point of view through force, intolerance, meaningless criticism, anger and superiority or inferiority complex.

Through human progress, we have shrunk the world into a microcosm and have brought global connectivity into the palm of the hand in the form of a smartphone. We are connected 24/7 to the world and our minds are bombarded with information all the time. Social media has accentuated comparisons, dialled up cravings for living someone else’s over-glorified life on the net, and for those lacking a discerning and emancipated mind, a perfect storm to be affected by a sense of deprivation. The mind is the real frontier that has to be explored and conquered. Those who can understand themselves, keep their minds quiet and remain steadfast and focused in achieving fulfilment in the journey of life. The first step is to acknowledge that there is a problem. Then you need to remove the numbness and apathy that we are so used to having in our daily life.

Through the immediacy, the spontaneity and the charge of the pictorial gesture contained in the works on display, the artist stimulates the public to activate a process of liberation. The geometry of each picture has an introspective symmetry, in which blu expressing a precise emotional state is the dominant color. The works, often created as a result of psychological sessions with patients suffering from different pathologies, are conceived as a provocation, an invitation to embark on a personalised journey. In a path that links art to psychology, the events responsible for trauma or situations of conflict emerge on the surface and are freed from the subconscious.

Thought-pollution is hence defined as contamination of inner peace by negative thoughts. The goal of the artist is to bring up these problems and sufferings in a form through which you can get some liberation.

Opening Night of my personal Exhibition Mind-Pollution.

We had special guests and critics attending the event: The Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda, President of Domina Coral Bay Eugenio Preatoni, Manuel Dallori, Giovanni Ciacci, Valeria Marini , Arabic art critic and poet Gamal El Kasas and many other international guests.

The night finished with a lot of success and a personal gift of 2 of my artworks to the Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda, who was very impressed with the  paintings.