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The Eye of Blindness

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	Erikka: Wow!!! Posted May 10, 2008 3:37pm
	Jane Lewis: Great image! Posted May 10, 2008 10:07pm
	back2basic: thanks again errika! : ) Posted May 11, 2008 2:56am
	back2basic: wow thanks jane,your an awesome artist and i do love your works Posted May 11, 2008 3:00am
	Julie's_Art: Interesting........ I think of love, perhaps a father's love for his daughter...( the apple of my eye ) and with this, Love is blind....as love is so often blind and anyone can be the apple of our eyes, even God/Goddess. It has become such a complex symbol of human spiritual alchemical process. Indeed a paradox and perhaps a touch by the secretly anointed one.....the deepest part of us, which lies like a sleeping serpent, will have light shed upon it too and we will see beyond superstition, shame and fears that separate the singularity of the one from their Universal Divine consciousness..so many different schools of thought...still this symbol works for so many one so many levels. A bitter sweet realisation. Posted May 11, 2008 5:41am
	Laf: Worth of been blind is have a vision in a land of blinds Posted May 20, 2008 9:35pm
	back2basic: thanks laf Posted May 21, 2008 1:19am

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Paintings and Drawings
oil on canvas
18inx24in

Social illusionist Jon Jaylo depicts a simple, figurative concept of mortal temptation through his life-inspired masterpiece. Embellished with the artist's prominent trademark of rediscovering the subtle enigmas of human poetry, this piece is filled with seemingly abstract symbolisms and allegorical representations of social and divine realism. The artist that the devil has implanted a seed of sin upon us, and as we grow older, it also matures and ferment into a much higher and complex form. We can put it to sleep, but in due time, it shall awaken again and in due time, devour our reasoning and cognition. He used the imagery of the apple to represent the normative symbol for temptation and sin. The eye on its middle heart is our "inner eye", the oculus of temptation that we dream to seal and lock down forever. The thorns, on the other hand symbolizes the pain and suffering that we undergo as we try to give in to it's alluring, silent whisper. Basically, the painting is set in an illusory frame, which suggests an anti-thesis to the rendition of evil of his work. The paradox itself suggests the concept of going against the modern flows of evil.