Love and Strife = Cosmic Cycles

Studying Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles' (495 B.C-435 B.C) and German romantic poet Hölderlin's (1770-1843) works, we encounter striking similarities trying to combine myth with logic, pop culture with philosophy. Their philosophical claim bases itself on the counterbalancing powers which rule the world, nature, and human. These powers created the world, human and divine, as the same.

 These images represent the contradictions that rule the world in alternating cycles, fighting one with another and the human passions; the instinctive, emotional, primitive drives in a human being including lust, anger, aggression and jealousy. Some of them remind us of Empedocles' Strife and some of Empedocles' Love.

 This series praises both ancient and modern philosophy plus the psychological norms that urge us to perceive reality. These realities, according to Plato, are not via image but via logic and soul.

Empedocles predicts:

 To the elements it came from

Everything will return.

Our bodies to earth,

Our blood to water,

Heat to fire,

Breath to air.