MESSAGE. Time of Awakening is not a series of “paintings,” but a limited collection of 100 art objects that unite a white plaster figure with painting on wood. The construction itself is essential: volume and image function as one, creating a sense of presence — as if a quiet “signal” appears in the space. This is not decoration and not traditional oil on canvas. It is an object of meaning that gathers attention and sets a point of stillness.
We live in an era of maximum intensity and constant acceleration. Politics is sharpened to the limit, and information streams create an illusion of participation while often removing depth. The economy moves faster than meaning: numbers become louder than people, and the idea of “stability” loses its former shape. Ecology is no longer a topic of the future — it is a question of the present. In this pressure, the need for inner support becomes especially clear: a state from which we can act with clarity, not from anxiety or fear.
MESSAGE is neither a protest nor a sermon. It is an invitation to contemplation. The project restores the value of quiet attention — the quality that helps us meet reality without noise, hysteria, or imposed narratives. Each work in the collection is a “point of gathering”: a place where the gaze slows down, the breath settles, and thoughts stop scattering. These art objects do not explain — they tune you in.
Gold in this series is not a sign of material dominance and not decorative luxury. It is a metaphor of awareness: frozen light — an inner center that remains unchanged amid historical storms. This light does not blind; it illuminates. It helps reveal what matters: the quality of attention shapes the quality of life, decisions, and relationships. In a world competing for every second of our focus, depth becomes a new strength — and awareness a new form of capital.
Each of the 100 works is a vital point where attention can return. Politics calls for responsibility of consciousness. Religion calls for personal spiritual experience. Economy calls for ethics of intention. Ecology calls for careful, gentle presence. MESSAGE offers no ready-made answers, but it reminds us of direction: the stability of the world begins not in offices and not on exchanges, but in the quality of each person’s inner state. A contemplative life is not an escape from reality — it is the highest form of engagement with it.
Materiality here is fundamental. White plaster does not “illustrate” the painting — it gives it a body: it catches light, casts shadow, and shifts with time of day and the viewer’s angle. The wooden surface, in contrast, holds the image as a sign and as memory. A double language is born — volume and plane, silence and tension, symbol and fact. This is art you cannot “scroll past.” It demands presence.
The collection is created for those who feel the turning point of an era and choose not the chaos of reaction, but the clarity of presence. MESSAGE is not an ornament for a space. It is space for thought. It is a personal anchor you can return to when the world accelerates again. Each work was created by the artist in a deep meditative state and carries a simple, precise message for today: slow down, see, become aware — and act from depth, not from fear.
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