Surrender
Surrender
By Maria Azar
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Acrylic on Canvas
2019
120 x 90 cm
"Surrender" is a piece of art inspired by a found cut trunk of a huge old tree in a forest in Biot, South of France. Surrendering was an act of complete submission to cycles, thus it was not a death, meaning an end to this tree, but a rebirth, within this forest where it seemed as alive as the greenery around it.
What a woman opts to do with her life is surrendering to be. To be. By being, a series of deaths and rebirth takes place, she not only forges herself, but through her transformation, others are compelled to undergo a process of change, in sync with cycles, with cycles of nature. Surrender becomes the strength and drive of women who pave the path to thyself. Surrender is then defined as a soul aspiration to the curious.
About Maria Azar
Maria Azar, a free spirited soul and a self-taught artist, finds emotions and stories in naked tree trunks and draws the stories and insights that unfold in front of her. She intuitively and comfortably displays her teachings and practice in psychoanalytic psychology, emphasising on the nature of raw emotions and storytelling to simply translate and express a state of being, or a movement towards change, be it in a form of a poem, a drawing or a painting.
Maria's art is reflective of the inner and outer world, a voyage deep into the unconscious mind that can be discerned in nature as well as human constructs, thus questioning the barriers between the internal and external dimensions. Maria converts her art through different styles and mediums (such as natural ink, acrylics and ink pens, on paper, canvas or wood), listening to the whispers of her creative inspiration in accordance to the story and emotion to be conveyed.
Furthermore, Maria attunes her listening and analytical skills to transform, transport, or just describe the brutality of lived experiences shared within the closed doors of her private practice or within the thin walls of refugee camps, and even the thick brutal walls of prison where most of her professional experience lies. For Maria, there's always a place for the raw and intense as much as the pure and delicate to be expressed: art becomes a safe space as much as a therapy session.