Where neuroscience and surrealism collide — During the first outbreak of Covid-19, walking down the streets evoked some kind of familiar, yet extra-terrestrial feeling. I couldn’t quite put the feeling down in words, but I knew it had something to do with cities being empty; buildings looking lonely and isolated. After all, we have built and…

Life is hard, we should aim at making it less hard for ourselves. — Despair, desperation. I would guess many of us have felt desperate in one way or another at some point in time. Some of us have felt it for a long time, maybe we still feel it as we (write and) read this. Lately, I will admit I’ve been feeling: stuck …

Sometimes you have to quit when you feel like quitting — How repetitive can a writer be? I wrote Do You Need to Change Yourself? Decadente, Wynn, and New Philosophy of Psychology and more stories about my desire to quit a job as soon as I started it; certainly, those are not great examples of good quitting, if there ever was…

Covering up penises, Adam and Eve, and the science of a body — Such abundance of bodies was admired and sculptured during the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans. For longer than that, civilizations such as those of Japan also enjoyed the expression and portrayal of nudity and sex. Look at some of these, for example:

Also: I don’t want to have a full-time job; I want to write. — There is also the fact that I am extremely anxious, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I’m just a few days into training for my full-time job. The people on my team are amazing, managers are not pushing me to work fully yet, and I believe that given a…

Have you been defeated by your own mind? Life is difficult for many, but according to psychologists it is you who needs to change. — I touched my skull — just right behind the ear — and found the texture discomforting. Am I getting dandruff again? So, I try probing better, peeling away to reveal (or create) a rush. The Joven Decadente is a painting of a woman exhausted after having danced too much. Needless…

Rebellion to authority, and new ways of worship — Words and characteristics change with times, and with the evolving — or “progressing” — of societies. And Satan too, changes. A young-ish Italian guy with a funny red hat meets an older poet in a forest, soon, a series of trials and philosophical questioning and answering bring him upon the…

Is art utter rubbish, a money grab, or an accurate emotional mirror? — On the interpretation of art. — To analyse a painting is not something easy, nor straightforward. In fact, if someone asked me how to do it, they’d see me dumbfounded, and struggling to know what to say. Of course, this is also due to the fact that I am simply an art enthusiast. But, it might…

His work, like the work of many other artists, isn’t just what it appears to be objectively. Of course it is about colour, how could one deny that? But it truly is about emotions. — I blame colour. Just in general, you know? The power it has, even being a mere calculation of the brain. No wonder so many have written about the psychology of colours, colour theory, and so on. Rothko, well, he was a master of it. Truly. In fact, for a time…