[Q#2] – “…QUAECUMQUE SUNT VERA…” Painting

[Q#2] This is an “acrylic EKG” on a sheet of paper as heavy as, allegedly, 7% of my soul. It is a work toned down by the inception of a Quarantine, while sharpened by a scared anamnesis of previous attempts to chromatically explore the ontology of the self. This is, in fact a freeze-frame that pinpoints the very moment when a reluctantly parleyed “cordon sanitaire” turned into an aloof “cordon solitaire”. It is meant to be “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” of an identity crisis, a psychoanalytic pangram comprising every single letter used to spell out the consciousness of finitude. Most surprisingly for an agnostic, the title of this work comes from Philippians 4:8 (KJV): “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true (quaecumque sunt vera), whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things”. project page: