The mysterious flame of anime by Danko Merin

Every person is a puzzle. You are a puzzle not only for yourself but for all the others, and the great secret of our time is how to penetrate this puzzle. Powerful things happen when we touch the thoughts that myths, fairy tales and our own dreams bring. The conditions and settings of old myths are strange; they look archaic and remote, but if we listen to them carefully and seriously, we begin to hear and understand. One of these myths is that those ancient people were originally made from two male and two female parts. They were united into two beings, each consisting of one male and one female part. They were arrogant enough to attack the gods. And Zeus said, "I think I have a plan that will humiliate their pride and improve their behaviour; people will still exist, but I will cut them and separate them." After the division, each of them wanted their other half to cling to. Each of us, when separated, always looks for our second half ... And the reason is that human nature originally was one, and we were a whole, and the desire and quest for the whole are called love.

In this absurdity of duality to achieve unity through the process of "finding" and "meeting the shadows," we have to accept our own anima and animus – by uniting unconscious and conscious. Anima- originates from the Latin meaning of "the air, wind, breath, soul,". Anima refers to the unconscious female dimension of a man.
The art painting is done in the traditional oil on canvas technique. In contrast to the warm and cool tones, it follows a spiral of Golden ratio that complements the dance of colour and body in the composition of the painting.

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