“Personal Paradigm”
“A reflection of the personal spirit”
Zura Arabidze sees his models as a reflection of his perceptions; this is why they are different from the real ones. They are personification of his personal paradigm.
Images living inside of us, dreams, fantasies, the sky we looked through the sleepless nights, houses in which we used to live, all our memoirs remain inside of us, creating the person, the unique Universe of individual existence. And these are the objects of this personal Universe that Zura longs to demonstrate to the audience through the portraits.
For a photographer, the world surrounding is a reflection of his personal spirit, a mirror of his mental model and of his perception model. Therefore, taking pictures of people, Zura discovers something from himself, digs it from the depth of their subconsciousness and imprints; he superimposes his personal images on fading faces which become just the intermediaries of the author's spiritual beginning into the external world.
Overlaying of the shots and drawing on the print allow achieving a stereoscopic picture, uncertainty of senses; the strongly pronounced black and white contrast focuses you on the emotional content of the work. The faces are somehow breaking through the darkness of unbeing to the light and finding a new life in the author's photo-works.
There is something mysterious in Zura's works; in each print, the author gives us the symbol leading us to decoding of the picture. The shot superimposing is as overlaying of various layers of life; the figures reminding of cave art are engraved on the face as the experiences of the life journey.
The photographer catches the part of the face, which concentrates the artistic idea and leaves everything distracting in the darkness.
So, mixing different techniques, the artist as though balls the picture senses clue.
“Emanation”
Life without aggression or aggressive being? The choice faced by any individual during his material existence. The way from the divine beginning, stepping back into complete aggression is reality. Emanation is a religious philosophical term, meaning the transition from the divine beginning to the everyday reality, regression, the transformation of spirituality into a simpler given.
Aggression is a specifically oriented behavior aimed at eliminating the obstacles that create the physical and mental integrity of the organism. The causes of aggressive behavior can be found in innate instincts.
This is a solid personal disposition, the instinct of death. Her motive is a pleasant emotional shift, which comes in the wake of aggressive behavior.
You always choose the road yourself. If you can resist the emanation, it will probably reach the state of perfect schastya. Divinity can be seen only in kindness. You can resist aggression with good, kindness fights against evil, only so you can transform evil.
Everyone is looking for the truth, but nobody knows where this truth is. You search for the truth and do not guess that it can be found only in yourself.