I`ve started new ActiveBase Painting seria about Great Silk Road. Deeply impressed with the idea how our civilization grew I suddenly realized how trade in ancient ages became the most integrative factor and changed last patchwork-world in modern global community. Great Silk Road was one of the most important and unical possibilities of human mind based the development of human civilization both generaly and particularly. So I`ve started investigate the subject I interested in from my childhood and then to express it in paintings; hope coming soon.

BB is the abbreviation of "Big Business" therefore Bibi is the short name of that picture because from the beginning I feel it as a living creature trying to realize herself in our reality. I feel proud to be a witness and help her to be.

(Big pictures below)

All of us have something in our life we recognize as the Big Business. It could be a real business so important for us we feel it as a Big one. It could be really big business such as transnational corporation or IT innovation changing our future. Also it could be the way we make our realiization gaining more knowledge and wisdom during we do our duties in different brunches. Everything is parts of the Big Business of our life by which we are participating with God creation.

As a Buddhist I pay my attention to steps people make and keep consciousness from one to next, feeling differencies, trying to understand. From Science we know about objective steps a process and how it develops so we could make a forecast how to act and what to expect. (So my religious and science are together in this field the same way as the brain works.) That painting represents the four step in Business living cycle and more - the 4 position of Buddhists history of Ten Bulls en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls  

It sounds a lttle bit mental but I feel it, feel what layes under it and how it was created, feel enegry of that part - Catching the Bull. The Bull means great energy so big we can`t observe it at all but we have a potential authority to use it, to direct and to make it more cultured, this is the mission of human towards existant processes. As we fulfill that mission we are trying to catch the Bull and at least keep astride, sometimes having a struggle with the Bull and our fears, balancing between our weaknesses and great wild energy we have to control.

Symbolically that stuggle contains in our deep subconsciousness so in many countries we can see games with bulls represents that symbol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting  . When we do our own Big Business this great energy catches up us and takes us away in wild ride from the past to a future, sometimes it`s dengeous and sometimes we have to pay a price of that riding.

Have you ever imagine how to feel it in energy terms? Social energy represents in several indexes of economics statistically shows how our world live, how it beath and have changes. Economics indexes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(economics) indicates how future growth from past and when people undestand it they could rule business better. Understanding is not only mental thing of course, it need feeling how world changes, feeling of energy.

Many pocesses like that is fast. We all need strength and persistence, sometimes work hard and catch our Biig Business Bull so hard we can`t notice how we are tired and how our hands becames stronger. (The same way I didn`t notice my hands and brushes becames coloured, no ideas how I gained it! )

Step by step we could break in our energy Bull, but the meaning of step 4 is to catch the Bull and keep to ride. This is the final picture of "(BB) Big Business-4: Catching the Bull Runs Through Economics Indexes".   It is big 100x110 cm (actually a little bit more) and I plan to paint all story that year.

We all live in informational ocean with it`s tides and storms and streams. Noone could analize it at all and to react properly we needs only one thing: to keep calm inside data cyclone. Yoga s the best way to manage it.

That painting represents such position of mind as Yoga Tree Asana en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vriksasana . During changes inside changes we could found the balance of body and mind, stand so firmly as a tree with it`s roots, trying to gain heavens and keeping calm while we growth. Amazing balance between fixation and stretching means our mind remains lear and could evaluate things live brings to us, let inconsiderable things gone away and absorb the pure energy of situation. All things becames clear as we keep calm.

In modern  world we have technical level over sci-fi writers could imagine. During last 20 years progress of memory devices runs from big 5 inch disc (1,2 Mb) to MSD cards of novadayes, small size containers of more then 64 Gb. We all depend of memory. Today our devices takes the great part of informational storage and therefore we depend from it.

It turns me to the idea about what is our own human memory.

Mnemosyne is Ancient Greecs goddess of memory (Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne  ) According to the myth Mnemosyne gives birth to 9 Musas functionally suports all branches of Human culture. Symbolically it means our Memory is the sourse of our future and past and it`s true. That`s why victorious agressors seeks to erise native history, native languiges and remembering of late freedom of a beaten side. Mnemosyne as a Live memory with it`s emotions, life experience, feelings, body languige, information datas used to live inside people. And now it moves into memory cards.

Due to more and more capasity of memory cards people wants to make it fill as fast as it possible. Trying to increase their life experiance they make more and more pictures, faster and faster, and memory cards stores it more then human memory could. But our own live memory is the same as in ancient dayes, it needs more time to relive and absorb life experience. So in fact placing more and more datas inside memory cards people have less self experience, less self existence, less own remembrance, less possibility to think about and therefore less life being in illusion they have more. Such a paradox!

I`m not act against technical progress, actually I like it. But I strongly belive then Human personality bases on possibility to think about life experience, relive it, analize it, possibility to make own opinion, and never depends from the speed people makes pictures, fills memory cards and downloads it to internet.

Mnemosyne today works much more then in Ancient times, but she is really tired storing herself into memory cards.

I am proud to announce new 2 paiintings`s finished (pictures will be tomorrow). And I`ve just started a new big one, I call it BB - Bibi (why it will be explained after finishing). I`ve a strong feeling about Bibi while I was going home after my today lectures so I made the skech immideately and started to work when I back home. That one is really big, about 120 cm long so I feel tired working with it about 5 hours staying in Gollum`s position when he climbed among Mordor`s rocks.
Oh my poor back! Oh my nose, I am full of chemistry smells, especially white-spirit. Thanks god this is -15 degrees cold and I can open my window to leave smells before sleeping.
And now I desire only three things: to have a shower, go to bed and to sleep at least 8 hours!

Ok, today I prepare canvas and frames, brushes, colours and my sketches. I`ve just put 6 canvases on it`s frames and placed it to my master place. Deadly tired, so strange, may be because of the weather -20 cold today. I want to sleep… and happy to make everything ready for next 2012 Gallery creation. Happy New Painting Year, then!

Everything on the Earth conforms with the order of duality. Left and right, body and soul, two sexes, two sides of a brain, two general styles of energy using, everything seems dual.  And we try again and again to find harmony between it. I create "Your Mirror" as a tool to realise internal conflicts and to find new dinamics and understanding from artificial duality to a new state.

The point is we recognize our own reflection in meanings of a life circumstances much more wider or complicated or simpler.  If we carry a conflict inside we  will see it in  every event even if it is not really   exist. So our understanding indicates about the internal state. Psychologists suggests Rorschach test en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorshack_test  but I choose another way to face people with internal reality. I paint "Your mirror" for the best perposes: to create a new dinamics of understanding and then to heal old hurts.

Look to the picture. What do you see? Is it a tied up man and a free woman? Is he angry? Is she happy? Or may be vice versa?..

What`s happened? Was he hooked or may be she was trying to make him free? Are they enemies or friends? What is the story?.. Let it be in your mind. Let it shows itself.

Then you could go deeper, to more symbolical meanings. Is she a dream of a real man? Is he a on the top and she on the bottom? Is he rigid and she - flexible, or he represents a will but she - a kind of connivance? Do them want to fix their positions or it could besomething new in their relationships? Is it an opposition or something else?..

Every your association, every emotion reflects hidden things inside your soul. This is a kind of courage to let it show itself.

Meet it. Check it. Then you could try to turn it into another way… Look to the picture! This is several things important to heal youself.

First of all he is not tied. Althougs his posture looks fixed there is no real cords on his hands. Her hairs gently tought his wrists but doesn`t hold him. May be it unholds him, what do you think?

Now look to the dinamics of the picture. This is not the fixed state but the possible process. He sits on the top of the rock, this is no freedom here, no joy, no more place to growing, and he is alone. His rigidity is not fruitful here. In fact he gained the peak of such possibility and now stay near unvisible border and free to do everything, and the most logical way is to use the cliff as a springboard. A girl shows that such way is safe. We all know that flexibility makes our life better in all sides, from our health and long living to  more creative ideas. As you gaze from red man figure to the girl and below you can see a mermaid happily splashes into her native element, into the green-blue waters.  We feel sea waters as a healing, that`s why people prefers to have a holidays on a seashore. Green and blue waters also is a symbol of our subconsciousness free from nightmare and dark, full of energy and creation. Do you feel the joy of it?..

And at the last point, could you imagine what is a process to turn your from the first conflict understanding to open feelings in soul and in real life?..

We can change ourselves. We have the power to create better life, more healthy and harmony, for ourselves and our familiars. This is the way to make our world better. And the first step to do it is to recognize a conflict inside and to use it`s energy for the self transformation.

This is "Your Mirror".

P.S. Dear friends! I`ll be very appreciate if you write your thoughts in comments. Feedback is very important and I hope to know your opinion here. Thank you!

Chains is one of the base things in our life. Chain is the process creates connections between people, it allows to construct more powerful structures both in business and life. The main idea of a chain is to hold link conjuctions strong. But who knows how it proceeds?

What is a chain in our life? Of course neck lace is the most obvious example. But if you see wider you can realize many chains. A book is  the chain of words and ideas.  A technical invention is the result of a chain of experiments and attempts. Evolution is the chain of changes.  Step by step we build the chain  from our past to our future, from the first look to strong and happy relationships. Step by step  our personality growts. We all want to see the next chain-link better then the last. We hope tomorrow will be better then past and this hope helps us to live.

Some people have inclination to think about human past as about lost Golden Age but it`s not true. It was the world of short life, unknowned illnesses and ignorance. Step by step people win back for the better conditions for future generation in every part of our life. Our ancestors formed the links of our human chain, step by step built up our advantages to be more healthy and intelligent. Everyday we do the same. So it turnes me to make a look to the price of chain making. It means how a particular link bears tension, how long it could be and how to insure weak links by own intension.

The essence of a chain is to remain connections between it`s links. If only link is weak - all chain will fall. Everyone know what is it - the boil point when we stand near the fail. When stress comes to supreme point everyone could have a weak thoughts, a one-minute of indulgence, a one-second of sufferance to agressive circumstances. May be once we could feel the weakness of a chain-link before us. And sometimes we can`t hold a hand of a next chain-link, such as our dreams about the best future, our ideals or people more powerful promised to help us. This is the point of real check-up how strong we are deeply inside.

Could we accumulate all of our spiritual power, maintains it with mental control of emotions? Could we don`t allow youselves to fall in desperation? Do we use internal reserves to come hell or high water? Can we remains our own responsability although in that moment others lost it?

The mix of personal courage and patience, fidelity to ideals and strong intension to hold the line - this is the quality of a particular chain-link.

This is the Chain Price.

Pictures will be tomorrow, I am tired and go to sleep!