Mirrors of Me
Today, when we live in a world of division, turmoil and enormous change caused by wars and pandemics, when we are daily exposed to violent attempts to enshrine someone else’s truth as our own and when many people, in the absence of critical thinking, go to someone else for their own opinion, there is a need for an ascension and unification into a new kind of human beings which, in one word, could be called Humanity.
The previous practice of solving the essential problems of man through misunderstanding, ignorance, frantic violence against nature and ourselves, has resulted in only the same, in one eternal cycle of repetition of the same destructive patterns, which in each round of repetition only further amplifies and uncovers man’s centuries-old suffering on this planet. Instead of striving for a true solution to the essential issues of the world we live in, and harmonizing with the universal laws of nature under which we too operate, today we are witnessing failed attempts to solve humanity’s long-term problems with short-term solutions that almost always lead to even more destruction, division and violence.
The project Mirrors of Me has a diametrically opposite approach. It implies making a step on our own, from within. It is a call to search for the essential self through the faces of others. Mirrors of Me conveys a deep message of the infinite possibilities and potentials of human beings when we unite into One. The world, as our personal mirror, can only be better if we become that. Mirrors of Me sends a strong message: “One World, One Family, One Species, One Religion – Humanity.
These messages are presented through powerful portraits of migrants, people living in conditions below human dignity, as well as ordinary people from other parts of our planet, exploring through emotions and lives drawn in their faces just that – the Oneness, that one thing we all have and share, that unbreakable connection and the unity with the Divine, deep in the heart of all hearts. In the faces mirroring our own, the photographs convey the message of universal Love. Unlike photographs whose focus is on the grotesqueness of the conditions in which migrants live, this series is an invitation to all of us to feel each other deep within ourselves and dare to embark on a powerful and transformative experience of inner cognition.
The photographs in this series is an invitation to give a part of ourselves to these people precisely because they are the same as us, their pain is our pain, their happiness is our happiness, their aspirations are our aspirations to live in peace, prosperity, love and self-realization as human beings worthy of existence to which we are all entitled to simply by having taken birth on this planet.
Universal Love as a state of consciousness, not dualistic sentiment, truly liberates and returns to us exponentially for taking is taking away and giving is getting. Only when we support life will life support us.
