During the past years Farphyni has worked on several projects and art series, simply called The hundred-headed Hydra. Most of them were small-sized art-series (A5) or just sketches.
The hundred-headed Hydra contains several art-series and projects about philosophical themes, questions we ask and thoughts about the mysteries of life and the human mind.
Here are some of those projects (newest to oldest):
- “Decryption Paradox” (2018-2019)
“Even if you don’t see it, it’s there. Something, beyond our control, beyond our vision, beyond our understanding. Something invisible accompanying us through our material lives.”
The series is painted entirely with acrylics on canvas, combining fluid techniques with common painting methods. (1-5)
Continuing this series in 2019 (“Sanity”), oil paints are combined with acrylic fluid techniques, creating a beautiful harmony.
Please click on the titles to be redirected to each DP-part:
[1] Anima Mundi; [2] The Secret Ways; [3] Unspoken; [4] Wingshifter; [5] Chasing Light; [6] Sanity
- “A Restless Dream” (2017-2018)
“What you see and the way you think determines how you interpret the world and life, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and others, and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.”
Rooting in Allegoric Reality and NOUS, the Restless Dream discusses what makes us go forward, what keeps us alive and where our subsciousness leads us on our journey, what we hope and picture ourselves. It’s about things that keep me awake and let me dream at the same time.
A series, drawn with pencils and ballpoint pens, refined with gold leaf.
Please click on the titles to be redirected to each ARD-part:
[1] Emypreum; [2] The Way of the Sun; [3] Terror in Resonance; [4] The Relativity of Existence
A Restless Dream also contains a little sub-series, named Search For The Hidden:
“And we wondered if there was something beyond. Beyond faces and mask, beyond lies and (so-called) truths, beyond the obvious and known. We wondered what we forgot, what we burried alive under the spirit of time.”
This sub-series (stylistically) roots in A Restless Dream, however, Search For The Hidden are a sort of memorials or reminders.
A series, drawn with graphite, powdered graphite and pencils, refined with gold leaf.
Please click on the titles to be redirected to each SFTH-part:
[1] The Crowned Man; [2] White Eyes; [3] A March of Crimes
- “Hoard of Beasts” (2017)
“You can never know what emotions people choose to not express, but unexpressed emotions will never die.“
“Hoard of Beasts” is all about sensations, emotions, feelings.
We don’t have a language for senses, emotions and sensations, that truly expresses their meaning. Feelings are images, expressed in art.
Please click on the titles to be redirected to each HoB-part:
[1] sankofa; [2] bilita mpash; [3] mono no aware; [4] resfeber; [5] vemod
- “NOUS” (2016-2017)
A sketch series focusing on reality and surreality, as well as the human mind.
The series contains ten parts – the first nine are sketches while the last one is a larger work to finish the series.
Please click on the titles to be redirected to each NOUS-part:
[1] Faceless; [2] Clockwork Soldiers; [3] The “Me” in me; [4] Artefact;
[5] Break Out, [6] Last Step, [7] Void; [8] Home; [9] Being;
[10] The NOUS