Hagalaz

3 years ago I started this painting as a tribute to the dark side of our manifested reality. Working on it in several stages, I returned to it only when the theme of the dark aspects sounded most vividly in me.

I observed again and again the beauty of the dark aspects, the power that they contain, the incredible harmony of the endless dance of two polarities, between which all life takes place. It took me some effort to make equal
in my mind the importance of the dark side to the same degree as the light, not just to recognize the importance, but to make it equal.

The dark and light aspects each perform their own tasks. But it happens that our mental attitudes distort the perception of these aspects, trying to suppress the dark and strengthen the light. Then the tasks of the dark side are artificially shifted to the light side, devaluing the dark side. But it is impossible to breathe out by inhaling, to realize night tasks during the daytime, heat will not do what cold does. This is obvious in such examples, and not at all obvious in the framework of human psychology.

Do an experiment, look at your personality, the personalities of other people, the processes around, highlight with your attention what you think is negative, unacceptable, scary, and try to find beauty, strengths, balance in this. All of this is there. What attitudes prevent you from seeing and realizing it?

If you go beyond the personality, these processes are absolutely neutral. Two opposites are sides of one whole. This "whole" exists because of its two polarities and everything that happens between them.