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Winner 2005.
Original oil on canvas painting, 40x56 cm
Private collection
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Life is a labyrinth we must wriggle through, so many times lost and
confused. The Sun is shining over you in one moment and the storm
turbulents over you in the other moment. Every door will open only to those
who believe and to those who keep going ahead and never look back behind
them. The nature's laws are so strange - the winners are on one side, and
defeated are on the other. Everyone is defeated only war and draw is
possible only in chess game. It is easy to let to be defeated but how to
find a tiny spark inside ourselves that leads us to victory. Where to go
when there is no path? On what do we rely, when there is nothing to rely
upon? Where to find a shelter if the winds blow from all directions? How to
win if you are your own path, rely and a shelter? We only have ourselves,
and not deliberated how much actually do we have. All our strength and
belief is inside ourselves and we will reach nowhere unless we start. The
winner is one who can defeat himself first, the one who has enough courage
and strength to face himself, and to make the first and the hardest step
when no one expect it. The winner is the one who can be born from the ashes,
like Phoenix, even more stronger and wiser, ready to confront with the storm
and to shout: "Let me see what you can do, because I can do that as well!"
Only winner knows that route to victory is long and hard, with lot of
suffering and sadness... but he is also deliberated how warm is that light
waiting for him at the end of the tunnel, worth to fight and live for. With
tears in his eyes and wounds on his heart, winner rushes ahead and never
counts his steps and victories. Winner always carries deep inside himself
story of Daedalus and Icarus, and doesn't fly too high towards the Sun, and
too low towards the sea. Only the ones with big hearts win, the ones who
give hand to better one as well to fallen one, the one who can believe in
visions and who can hear impossible, the one who has enough courage to
observe existing coasts. Winner inside ourselves sleeps and awaits to be
awaken by the bells...
( "Winner inside ourselves", author Suzana Stojanovic, 09.09.2006. ) |
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