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The evil eye is an ancient, supernatural belief that a malevolent or envious glare—often born from jealousy—can inflict harm, bad luck, or misfortune upon the person being looked at.

Rooted in history as far back as 3,000 B.C., the concept spans thousands of cultures across the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Asia. The superstition warns that when someone gazes at your success, wealth, or good fortune with envy, they unintentionally or intentionally project negative energy your way. In many traditions, children, pregnant women, and the highly successful are considered the most vulnerable.

The whole point is to show men are like products that are readily consumed by society. If that existed every bottle would say, "Warning may be toxic." Labeling every man as possibly toxic for being mascluine, creating a stigma against medically perscribed 'Toxic Masculinty.' Although this bottle is labeled toxic, it isn't. It's just a frightned, naked young man who wants nothing more than to escape the bottle and not be consumed by society. We're bred for consumption.

Byw: I took a shower back in 2020, and took a few picturews of myself naked cradling myself on the floor. This drawing is based off of those pictures. During that time I was very hairy, and I think that fits the drawing a lot because it gives the impression the young man has been in the bottle for a while. Bred to be consumed.

Our ancestors tell us that any being with sufficient understanding of the universe can create whatever they desire, as if they were a god.

 

For this purpose, human beings possess a formidable mind, but we are limited by primitive forms and senses that only reveal the surface of reality and anti-reality. This often leads to misinterpretations, requiring colossal efforts to understand even the slightest complexity.

Time is also unhelpful, for at the beginning of our existence, it claims every instant for itself and never returns it, ultimately keeping everything we could have learned.

Therefore, for the expansion of human knowledge, it is necessary that the knowledge accumulated by an individual in their lifetime be transmitted to another. This is inefficient and does not guarantee that the learner will achieve an intelligence superior to that of the master, or that there will be a willingness to exchange critical information.

 

However, there is an extreme method, which I don't know if it can be replicated. And I was able to play the part:

One day, in what seemed like a dream, I found myself in a strange place, and that creature appeared. In an instant, it materialized before me a magnificent creation: it was pure beauty, accompanied by pure terror. I couldn't move, I was paralyzed, and then, just after, I saw eternity, and understood absolutely everything.

The discovery brought me death. Although that didn't prevent me from waking up, again.

 

Eternals, Chapter I,

Discovery.

Pastel on cardboard.

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​Medinis – The Prussian God of Forests.

Artist: Andrzej Masianis

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 60x80 cm

​Prussian Mythology – A Forgotten World.

The Prussians, who once inhabited the areas of today's Masuria, Warmia, and the Kaliningrad Oblast, lived in deep symbiosis with nature. Their pantheon was full of deities associated with the elements.

The figure of Medinis reminds us of a time when forests were sacred groves, and every whisper of the leaves held meaning. The painting is an attempt to capture the spirit of ancient beliefs in a modern, expressive form.

​More works inspired by mythology:

www.masianis.pl

#Medinis #PrussianMythology #Painting #Pagan #ForestGoddess

I did other drawings during this time period, but this was always around. Finally finished!

Acrilyc/Paper

Still life acrylic on paper 30x42cm masianis.pl

It was a night like any other.

I was going to rest, the next day awaited.

I was going to dream, perhaps I wouldn't remembered.

I was going to close my eyes, my mind exhausted, bewildered.

But the hours passed,

and my conscience was restless.

Why I was, so concerned?

...

Midnight, and the situation turn unsettled:

An endless dawn,

broken into hundreds of flashing words,

prophecies, memories, all disconnected,

all, incompleted.

Then, as I turned my gaze toward the exit,

the strange being lay relaxed.

So close, yet so distant. What did he wanted?

I suppose to drive mad, to ruin my life:

I haven't been able to sleep since that time.

He stole my dreams, my promises,

my fantasies.

Because now, I am a slave of wakefulness.

Eternals, Chapter I,

Insomnia.

Pastel on cardboard.

Photo of a reflection off of a sunrise alarm surface.