Dawit Debela. Lilies in Blue Spiral Vase. Oil on Canvas. Please scroll down for more images and text.
Dawit Debela. Member Lamp Art Project. Dawit is originally from Ethiopia, from which he speaks the Amharic national language, many dialects, English and Italian. He studied engineering and has a passion for oil painting.
Hidden triumph can take place in the life of the human, artist or otherwise, who braves the challenges of Schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Human genius, spirituality, passion and compassion are found, like jewels, among all humans.
With all humans, it is our own inner voices of doubt, fueled by a lack of support from our society, that is our greatest obstacle to creativity. Although technique can offer options, the artist cannot access these options if they are beaten down by society to the point of paralysis.
Artists of history have created out of great pain, but at a certain point, if the artist has been deprived of, for example, food, they starve to death, at which point they cannot, anymore, make art, by reason of death.
Furthermore, emotional pain, or diagnoses, can most certainly be wells from which creation can be accessed, and yet at the point in which the artist, like Van Gogh, can take it no longer, and puts, as Van Gogh did, a fatal bullet in their side, there also will be, by reason, once more, of death, no more creating of art work.
Furthermore the very act of creating art is an acutely vulnerable psychological dynamic. Creating art is, in this sense, very much like looking at one's face in the mirror. There is a potential for either pleasure or, at minimum, a valuably clear look at oneself, through either looking at a mirror or at one's own art, or else there is a potentiality for crippling, and even blinding, self-abasement, if a the requisite modicum of societal, familial, or personal, acceptance and esteem is not there.
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