DARC DEMAND

Experimenting with techniques... a large low quality copy of IT ENTERS THE MIND BY TRAUMA - has resulted in a surprisingly beautiful grunge look.

Just a quick hand drawing.

BEHOLD THE ASTRAL FRAYS from the series WE CANNOT CHANGE REALITY UNTIL WE LOOK AT IT.

This symbol once has come as a vague vision in a time when I was working out my motivations, values, goals and required attributes and looking for a way to clearly identify and strengthen them by creating a first material appearance – a hook in physical reality, an auxiliary tool to hold firm to the chosen path, something that offers mental support and encouragement by being a permanently available reminder about the choices and decisions that had been done in silent hours. The symbol has been adjusted and attuned several times and charged with the outlined attributes. Every element of the symbol has a concrete meaning. The symbol's name - the word SKAL is a verbal creation I‘ve made at the same period of time by using a special method to create powerful wordings. Later, I’ve realized that both -the symbol and the word- are the same thing, expressed by a different medium.

„If you have a cross to bear, it‘s only fair, if you use it as a crutch.“

Another headpiece I’ve made times ago.

IT ENTERS THE MIND BY TRAUMA from the series WE CANNOT CHANGE REALITY UNTIL WE LOOK AT IT.  Print on Hahnemuehle Bamboo.

„I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become“. C.G.Jung

All images of the series WE CANNOT CHANGE REALITY UNTIL WE LOOK AT IT, plus LABYRINTH.

Our damaged studio slave wearing a headharness I’ve made a pretty while ago. At studio Heidestrasse Berlin.

THE LABYRINTH, 2018 by DARC DEMAND

Hand-drawn version (detail) of UNDESIRED IMPLICATION by Darc Demand.

Pernicious and undesired implications with other individuals are attracted by the own mental imprints, equal to the energy-stamp of the opponent. These imprints have their origins in infantile experiences. The agony, caused by the opponent, is an exact reflexion of the emotions the infant was forced to undergo. The opponent reflects repressed memories by putting the finger on the crux. Unhealed wounds get opened again and offer the chance to be understood and healed thoroughly. Picture: digitally processed version of UNDESIRED IMPLICATION (fineartprint on Hahnemuehle Bamboo) from the series WE CANNOT CHANGE REALITY UNTIL WE LOOK AT IT. (C) 2014-2018 by Darc Demand. From a series of interdisciplinary art projects on human transformation.

HOW LONG IS NOW - that kinda legendary and famous mural on the wall of Tacheles had been an alternative landmark of Berlin. Sadly, it is about to become history now. Photo taken by me in 2013.  

Me at Ikonic Studio Berlin, 2018