‘I was a horror, amongst horror must I dwell’, 2011
‘Negativity’, 2011, digital.
People are afraid and thus trying to stay away from any negative emotions. They’re afraid of pain, anger, bitterness, or jealousy. They choose instead to fill their life with more positive things: happiness, good spirit, enthusiasm.
But one cannot stare at the sun for too long without getting blind. To linger and stay forever in positive things is false hope, a fool and dangerous thing to do. They’ll blind you eventually. That’s why we need a little exposure to darkness.
For all I know, negative emotions can also motivate us. You can be disgusted by anger or hostility, or speak about how bitterness brings only bad results, but the fact is, some people motivated by pain and anger to move forward in life. They channeled their aggression towards something constructive, make the most out of it and in the process, transformed themselves into a better person. Some of the greatest creations in life originated from heartbreaks and sickness, from jealousy and revenge. Negativity, taken from another viewpoint, is also a fuel to the engine of life.
Destruction isn’t the ending, it’s a beginning of something.
Sweet plan.
‘Lovers At The End of The World’, 2011
My kind of romantic scene would involve a couple running around in a city destroyed by giant T-Rex. With devilish horn.
“Here, only the mind can grant you power.” — Dr. Jonathan Crane, Batman Begins (2005)
I’m in love with the Batman universe since the dawn of Batman: The Animated Series.
When I’ve finally became a psychology student and learning a thing or two about the field, I found that Batman universe are full of psychological references: the dual-personality of Batman/Bruce Wayne, the mental asylum where Gotham locked up its most dangerous criminals, the complex relationship between Batman and his foes (notably, The Joker) and the most obvious one: Dr. Jonathan Crane.
Once a psychology professor researching the nature of fear, Crane fall in love with the subject and choose to transform himself into something fearful. He don the mask of a scarecrow and begin to spread fear to Gotham citizen.
Funnily, I used to see this character as campy. In the Golden and Silver age era, Scarecrow looks like a joke. Bruce Timm’s TAS revived the character a bit, then later Jeph Loeb’s Hush and Geoff Johns’ Blackest Night also helped Scarecrow get back into the respected line of Batman villains, yet it’s the movie Batman Begins that represents the character best: an intellectual figure obsessed with human nature called fear.
’Fear’, 2011, Digital
