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MYSTIC ECSTASY WITH GLOWING HALO
DIMENSIONS
90x70 cm
TECHNIQUE AND SUPPORT
oil on cracked canvas
YEAR
2006, September
PROJECT
The painting is part of the cycle “Le Sante Sospese”
(The Pending Sante)
Contact with the sacred, the mystery and the unspeakable manifests itself, to the luckiest, predestined or simply persevering women, through ecstasy. Some people reach mystical ecstasy or Nirvana through psychophysical techniques that involve regular orgiastic practice: the methodical use of one's body and sexuality, the tantric art of enjoyment, the so-called 'impure acts' of Judeo-Christian morality.
E(x) – stasis is where the world as we know it stops, suddenly! Without warning! Let's imagine with the help of descriptions provided to us by literature: we enter a world where perception is different from what we normally know. We experience a world that is not subject to common and known rules. A physical world? Mental? Spiritual? Mystical? Or all these things together? Those who do not have personal experience cannot imagine it; nor can it describe what those who are affected by this experience feel.
E(x) – STASIS is where everything we know fades away and leaves room for enjoyment, union, Love, a new awareness of something that normally escapes us; to the profound change of our psychic essence.
The “Sante” are Suspended, in ecstasy, astonished and absent. The tantric experience has reached its culmination. Her purified being reveals the subtle aura that vibrates behind her head. Her half-closed eyelids let through a gaze that doesn't see you, passes through you, goes beyond, far away. Her hand lies limply in her lap. Perhaps at the beginning of the phenomenon, she was frightened and tried to cling to the reality of the flesh, seeking physical contact with the bowels, with the womb of the Great Mother Earth, with the first chakras, those of contact with the real world. She is traveling now and when she returns she will find her hand again and contact with the body and with the world… But she will never be the same again. S.B.

