Melencholia Series

Melencholia I

Oil on Canvas 24 x 30cm (2025)

Influences

Theme Tune: The Album Blue by Joni Mitchell. (1971).
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. (1621).

“great is the force of imagination, and much more ought the cause of melancholy to be ascribed to this alone, than to the distemperature of the body.”

Melencholia II

Oil on Canvas 24 x 30cm (2025)

Influences

Melencolia I Albrecht Durer 1514
Melencholia the film by Lars Von Trier. (2011).
The Saturn in Pisces years.

One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967).

“it was forseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aurelio babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and for evermore, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

Melencholia III

Oil on Canvas 24 x 30cm (2025)

Influences

Theme Tune: Don’t look back in anger, Oasis.(1996)
Melencholia the film by Lars Von Trier. (2011).
The Saturn in Pisces years.

The Outsider by Colin Wilson. (1956).
This is an exploration of the theme of the Outsider in literature.

“ When I began the Outsider, I was aware that Gurdjieff would occupy a central place in its last chapter, because Gurdjieff had recognised that the basic problem of human consciousness is a kind of sleep, a tendency to automatism…..

The first major philosopher to recognise that our minds impose habit structures on our perceptions was Immanuel Kant. He called the railway lines categories, and believed that even space and time are categories that is, our minds impose on them reality in order to see it”.

Twilight of the Idols by Frederick Nieztsche. (1889).

“ To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits plays no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength. A revaluation of all values, this question mark so black, so huge it casts a shadow over him who sets it up – such a destiny of a task compels one every instant to run out into the sunshine so as to shake off a seriousness grown all to oppressive.”