Artist: Eriks Gringuts

Based in Glasgow, Scotland

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​Someone once said that suffering flows through life like water. Suffering is somehow undeniable reality of existence. Through the pain we come into this world and through the pain we leave it. In its deepest sense suffering is beginning of every personal story in this universe of tormented and agonized beings. This imagery is searching for beginning. Beginning of personal story, what is also the story of the generation. Of the generation, what grew up at the feet of the shuttered empire, agonizing beyond iron curtain, and experienced adolescence and youth on its ruins. Of the generation, what is prone to self-destruction and cynicism, even nihilism, driven by principle of fleshly pleasures infused with necessity for self punishment, thus tranquilising pain caused by surrounding world of confusion and flux. Everything in this generation lives on very border of opposites.