Art Gallery by Suzana Stojanović

Human nature is enigmatic and mysterious. Even man himself cannot reach its web in the depths, stray and lost thoughts and newborn ideas. Images of dreams emerge and warn, govern and protect. Consicousness exists to set a man straight. "All we have is ourselves, but we aren't aware of how much we have" - says Suzana Stojanović, a painter and a writer, in one of her stories.
A word, as well as a painting, has its own power. They dignify, talk, warn and whip with that power. Misfortunes are overcome by words as well as harmony is shown through them. Out of the cosmic chaos, a word should come out as a winner, galloping. Suzana's word on the existence and overpowering the chaos galloped its way out together with her horse paintings. The poetess doesn't speak long and much. Even with silence she expresses the symphonies of her thoughts on the struggle of good and evil, on faith in the existence and the creation of our own lives, on the silence of solitude.
Faith in the existence is a supreme task that man has to accomplish. The unshakeable faith in the power of art and the wisdom of existence permeates the reflections expressed in one breath and one move. Obsessed both with the eternal struggle against the inhuman in man and sorrow because of the inability to protect our own personality from "nobody" in ourselves, Suzana Stojanović travels, worries, cries for help and warns the reason because "only imagination will go to eternity, taking with itself all of its secrets which have been hidden from ignorance and short-sightedness for centuries".
The stories before us aren't stories in literal and theoretical sense. They are more like thoughts on the wisdom of the existence of the real spirit, the balance of mind and body, a man's desire to win the genuine human sense and true face. Being conscious of ourselves means being conscious of others as well. The struggle for the ideas which strengthen our spirit intertwines within the lines of lyrical prose, thus finding out with certainty the possibilites for a true survival. Suzana regrets the fact that "there are more and more evil men" while knowing that only the one with great heart wins, only the one who helps the lost and a better one, the one who believes in visions and hears the impossible...The winner sleeps inside us and waits for the bells to wake him up.
The imaginary awareness of the world is attached to the realistic one. Running away from the reality as the author sees it and the transmission into the world of imagination allows the author the unlimited freedom which belongs to her only; it protects her from the chaos that threatens to destroy the ultimate labyrinth - the human freedom of mind and spirit. And there, on encountering wonderful and fantastic landscapes and events in the stories, you should open and close the door with caution and fear. Even though the author believes in optimism, fear of the known and especially the unknown awakens her senses, her visions and she yields herself to the infinite word game and its meaning. There is Phoenix, Daedalus and Icarus, The Prince and The Beggar - good and evil to block the paths. There's Suzana's imagination with which she achieves a greater wisdom and a metaphorical vision of reality. With her paintings and stories she has created the world which is only hers, considering it a better one.

Čovekova duša je zagonetna i tajnovita. Ni sam ne može da dohvati njene mreže u dubinama, zalutale i izgubljene misli, začete ideje. Slike snova izranjaju i opominju, upravljaju ili čuvaju. Svest je tu da uputi čoveka. "Imamo samo sebe, a nismo ni svesni koliko mnogo imamo" - kaže Suzana Stojanović, slikar i pisac, u jednoj od svojih priča.
Reč kao i slika imaju svoju moć. Njome oplemenjuju, vode razgovore, njome opominju, ali i šibaju. Rečima se pobeđuju nesreće, i iskazuju harmonije. Iz kosmičkog haosa reč treba da izađe kao pobednik. Da izgalopira. Suzanina reč o postojanju i nadvladavanju haosa je izgalopirala zajedno sa slikama konja. Pesnikinja ne govori dugo i mnogo. I ćutanjem iskazuje simfonije svojih misli o borbi dobra sa zlom, o veri u postojanje i kreaciji sopstvenog života, o tišini samoće.
Vera u postojanje vrhunski je zadatak koji čovek mora da ispuni. Nepokolebljivost vere u snagu umetnosti i mudrosti postojanja prožima refleksije iskazane jednim dahom i jednim potezom. Opsednuta večitom borbom protiv nečoveka u čoveku i tugom zbog nemogućnosti odbrane sopstvene ličnosti od nikoga u sebi, Suzana Stojanović putuje, brine, vapi, opominje razum, jer u "večnost će otputovati samo mašta i poneće sa sobom sve svoje tajne vekovima skrivane od neznanja i kratkovidosti".
Priče pred nama nisu priče u knjizevnoteorijskom određenju. Više su to misli o mudrosti postojanja pravog duha, o ravnoteži duha i tela, o želji da se čovek izbori za pravi ljudski smisao i istinito lice. Svest o sebi čuva i svest o drugima. Borba za ideje kojima se osnažuje duh prožima tekstove lirske proze i sa sigurnosću nalazi mogućnosti pravog opstanka. Suzana žali: "što je sve više loših ljudi", a zna da pobeđuje samo onaj ko ima veliko srce, onaj ko pruža ruku posrnulom i boljem od sebe, onaj ko veruje u vizije i čuje nemoguće...Pobednik spava u nama i čeka zvona da ga probude."
Na realno saznanje o svetu nadovezuje se bajkovito. Bežanje od stvarnosti kakvu doživljava autor, prelazak u okvire mašte dopušta bezgranično, i samo njenu slobodu, brani je od haosa koji preti da razori krajnji lavirint - ljudsku slobodu misli i duha. I tamo, pri susretu u pričama sa čudesnim i fantastičnim predelima i događajima, sa oprezom i strahom treba otvarati i zatvarati vrata. Iako autor veruje u optimizam, ipak strah od poznatog, a naročito nepoznatog budi njena čula, njene vizije i ona se predaje beskrajnoj igri rečima i njenim smislom. Tu su: Feniks, Dedal i Ikar, kraljević i prosjak - dobro i zlo da pregrade puteve. Tu je mašta Suzanina kojom postiže višu mudrost i slikovitu viziju stvarnosti. Stvorila je slikom i pričom svet koji je samo njen, smatrajući ga boljim.