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Artist: Vasil Berela, Georgia
From the exhibition catalogue:
Vasil Berela examines the existential efforts of individuals attempting to achieve transcendental states of mind but, often enough, end up vegetating as hopeless biomass of society.
"Adolescent" shows a young woman in need of protection, bald like a prisoner and blanketed in a sheet of fabric that protects her.
However, it also wraps around her like a straitjacket. Her feet are in a bowl as if for cleaning.
Twelve more bowls surround her.
The association with Jesus washing the feet of his disciples seems inevitable, even if not intended.
In any case, the bowls offer a shelter for more possible participants. The almost colourless arrangement conveys an overall feeling of a rather limited cognitive potential.
“There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity. This relation of transcendence as constitutive of man (not in the sense that God is transcendent, but in the sense of self-surpassing) with subjectivity (in such a sense that man is not shut up in himself but forever present in a human universe) - it is this that we call existential humanism. This is humanism, because we remind man that there is no legislator but himself; that he himself, thus abandoned, must decide for himself; also because we show that it is not by turning back upon himself, but always by seeking, beyond himself, an aim which is one of liberation or of some particular realisation, that man can realize himself as truly human."
—JP Sartre
Energy shall be clean, inexpensive, dependable and safe. Dedicating this picture to those brave operators at the Fukushima reactor making "Existential Sacrifices" to save the world.
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A popular getaway for Somewhereville residents. Booking includes color-therapy bedrooms and one week of existential clarity. Book now and get free admission to the Paint-by-Emotion Classes – watercolors derived from your unresolved feelings.
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An aluminum pirate statue in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Seriously bad ass, no?
So, existential question. How do Pirates know they exist?
A: They think, therefore they Arrrrr!
...and you know it's serious when cinematographer Jerry Finnerman puts him in the dark with only his eyes lit.
The drone has been sitting in an unfinished state for literally about 3 years. It feels good to have it done and I like how it turned out.
I will say, I had an existential crisis while making an AK-47 for the duplo kid. Who have I become?
"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not.
It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." -Osho
This dog has an existential crisis every time we walk down the alley. Doing its job. I respect it.
Also, I'm going to open a bar called The Deranged Poodle.
Confronting a giant version of yourself can be daunting. Especially when you realize it has better posture than you.
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Photograph published in News Junkie Post on 5/30/2020
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Also photograph published in The Duran on 5/31/2020
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"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said, be careful, his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery
She read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
And I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America"
Simon and Garfunkel 1968
"Please help!!!!!!!!" the helpless robot seems to be saying. His agony and existential despair generates great empathy in the compassionate viewer of the mural. Further complicating his predicament, the fence prevents any would-be "good samaritan" or well-intentioned person from intervening to assist him. It is an umbearably trajic and hopeless scene............causing us to avert our eyes and move on............continuing our daily routines, and trying desperately to forget............
Surrealist existential dream scape image depicting an individual perceiving themselves forsaken in the mental hallucinatory wilderness of their existence as the last ebb of life brings about not only physical death but the replacement of divine expectation with the death of belief and faith.
Starring into the abyss of another Black Friday.
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20190710DE Brandenburg Germany. Sheds #9 This seems to be a shed which left off being one before it was finished. A shed with an existential problem. #merdasalvini #carolarackete #bloodshed #watershed #shedsrus #shedonist #shedsIhaveknown #shedalittlelight #shedsomefur #shedfullofsomething
The proverbial lady in waiting--but what is she waiting for?
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I edited this photo so many times but never ending liking the tones. Colors are everything to me and the combination of them in a photo is one of the most important things in the aesthetics I am trying to achieve. After so many tries and start overs, I was happy with this result.
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"Our brief finitude is a beautiful spark in the vast darkness of space. So we should live the fleeting day with passion and, when the night comes, depart from it with grace." Richard Holloway (2004) Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning.
DONNIE DOES DURANGO
★★★★★
In this pre-apocalyptic masterpiece, Hubert Crackanthorpe delivers a career-defining performance as Don Caballero, a man wandering through the scorched remnants of frontier civilisation with little more than impeccable tailoring, existential ennui, and an alarming disregard for social convention.
Crackanthorpe is magnificent. His performance oscillates effortlessly between brooding Western anti-hero and thoroughly self-aware object of desire. Every glance carries the weight of a dying civilisation; every pose suggests that civilisation perhaps deserved to end.
In a world where all women are easy, only one man is extremely hard.
A legendary pussy magnet on his final ride into the sunset, Don Caballero leaves behind neither answers nor regrets - only dust, despair and a cornucopia of broken hearts, smudged lipstick, and ruined lingerie.
Part Western. Part art film. Part fever dream. Where art cinema meets thinking man’s porn.
Ultimately, futile to understand.
Donny Does Durango is not a movie you watch.
It gives you the evil eye. Without blinking.
(Crispin Featherstone, Senior Film Correspondent, "Sight & Sensibility", September 2026)
Location: Blind Horse Creek
You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life:
Pavement - Shady Lane
A single cloud, floating like it’s got somewhere better to be. Mid-sky, mid-divorce, mid-existential crisis.
Minimalist in composition but emotionally messy, exposed just right to make that vapour trail feel like punctuation.
This isn’t serenity. It’s a passive-aggressive note left on the fridge.
At some point in the past week I had a minor existential crisis/sudden-dregding-up-of-psychic-goop-crisis and determined the only solution would be to go on a walk and listen to some Very Angsty music. It worked. I also managed to get some super cool pictures of the early-summer flora. I live in a very rural area — trees and trees and plants and plants abound. I’ve always loved taking walks and seeing all the plants and animals, especially in late spring/early summer — everything seems especially magic at that time around here. The green is bright yet subdued, there are many pastely late-spring ephemerals, and the sunlight is bright yet gentle. This is a picture of a huge bed of bright green ferns that I inverted into pink & purple.
I thought she was going on a deep sea journey, but in reading the write-up, it sounds more like a journey to human connection..
Apparently that helmet is made from an old furnace..
"Lost 5 – Signal" is a sculpture by artist Karl Mattson, displayed in Penticton as part of the city's Public Sculpture Exhibition from May 2024 to April 2025. This 14-foot-tall piece, constructed from new and salvaged steel, depicts a figure extending an arm skyward, symbolizing an attempt to send or receive a signal, reflecting humanity's search for connection in uncertain times.
The sculpture is installed at the Front Street roundabout, a prominent location that ensures visibility to both residents and visitors. This placement continues Penticton's tradition of showcasing impactful public art, following the display of Mattson's earlier work, "Lost," in the same location during the 2020-2021 exhibition.
Mattson's "Lost" series serves as a commentary on humanity's complacent progression into an uncertain future, with each piece exploring themes of environmental decline and existential struggle. "Lost 5 – Signal" emphasizes communication and the human desire for connection amidst these challenges.
#5318 - 2022 Day 204: In a world where cost is suddenly an existential threat, I couldn't pass the opportunity for a dozen sardines at £3 per Kg. Sardines are among the great things, so maybe they should be valued more highly and not sold so cheaply, but there we are ... These were soon on the barbecue.
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
--Yogi Berra
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The Danish artist Michael Kvium is known for the figurative visual language he uses to tackle the existential themes of humanity. In the exhibition ‘Circus Europa’, Kvium takes the circus as a metaphor for our time to portray a world of entertainment where even the most serious news is characterized by sensationalism and drama.
i said no more polaroids but i had forgotten i came up with this idea!!! castle in the violets & dandelions
this is a castle my brother got for me when he was 2 and i was ~0. he saw it in the store and insisted i needed it. he was absolutely correct -- almost 30 yrs later and i still need it!!!
i think this is cinderella's castle but i could be wrong -- i don't know much about disney. i wasn't allowed to watch the princess movies as a child except for mulan because a woman's role is kicking ass, you know?
i did watch the lion king though, when i was 3, and had one of my earliest existential crises. somehow it inspired the revelation that there's always something beyond the horizon. there's always going to be a Thing beyond what i'm seeing. there's always a Thing Beyond the Thing.
this is still what most of my existential crises boil down to. i get really upset thinking about the land before time. not the dinosaur movie, that was fire. i mean whatever came before the big bang. (maybe upset is too strong a word -- it's more like Unsettledly Intruiged.)
what is your favorite fairytale, or flavor of existential crisis?
there are dreams that must remain in the drawers,
in the vaults, locked up til our end.
and so that could be dreamed during the whole life.
[hilda hilst]
há sonhos que devem permanecer nas gavetas, nos cofres, trancados até o nosso fim. e por isso passíveis de serem sonhados a vida inteira.
Clem "Sparky" Binswaddle stands beside the unveiling of his new work, "Plastic Fantastic Lover." Sparky calls his artistic style "Post-Consumer Romantic Garbageism," representing the existential impermeability of modern relationships.
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