Mike Lovric Croatia

Water and fire
The works reflect on the two opposing elements which maintain a powerful symbolism within the overall realm of imaginative experience possessing a strong correspondence to internal states and emotions. Within overlaying worlds of fire and water the emphasis is put onto signification of the division between masculine and feminine. Fire represents the Yang symbolising the masculine archetype. Water represents the Ying and symbolises the feminine archetype, the passive state and the intuitive function. Fire is active and water is passive. The intermixing states play with our sensory perceptions which relate fire to the heat of the day when light rules over darkness while water stands in direct opposition being associated with unconsciousness, the darkness of night and the moon's monthly cycles which control ocean tides. The element of fire has the nervous temperament and the element of water has the lymphatic temperament. The works tries to suggest unique property of water which is that it takes the shape of that which surrounds it but to never possess a specific shape by itself since its incapable of transcending its own mode of being and of manifesting itself in forms. Fire is intimate and universal rising from the depths of the substance offering itself with the warmth of love often relating to the sun and the powers of transformation and purification. Its basic movement is upward rather than downward like water.