A meaning of lifeContinue Reading
(Drawn/painted with acrylics, pencils, colored pencils, ballpoint pen & some ink on A3 paper, finished on 11th of february in 2016)
Significatio Aetatis.
A very personal piece featuring my Alter Ego, the shapeshifter Raa’Deviah.
The owl, long a vessel for wisdom and the unseen, becomes here not merely an observer of life, but its contemplative embodiment. Her gaze is fixed on the moon, humanity’s first mirror in the void — the symbol of cycles, illusions, and the soul’s longing for meaning beyond the terrestrial. The moon is not just a celestial object; it is a question, and the owl, through ageless eyes, is the answer yet undeciphered.
Sitting directly upon the Earth, the owl becomes a bridge between worlds — grounded yet cosmic, mortal yet mythic. She carries the key not as a decoration, but as an emblem of potential. It dangles close to her heart, suggesting that the door to understanding lies within, waiting to be unlocked by awareness, patience, and courage. But the key implies more: that meaning is something earned, not given.
The horns, jarring yet regal, evoke the tension of duality — perhaps a nod to Dionysian wildness or a reference to ancient deities who bore horns as marks of sacred otherness. They crown the owl as both creature and oracle, reminding us that enlightenment often demands a confrontation with the primal, the shadowed, the misunderstood.
Suspended in space, the scene is divorced from chronology or geography. It takes place in a mythic now, where symbolism outweighs physics. The cosmos becomes a canvas upon which the eternal question — What is the meaning of life? — is not answered directly, but rather posed anew through image.
Thus, “A Meaning of Life” does not claim to resolve the question it is named for. Instead, it dares to suggest that meaning itself is a layered enigma: part memory, part mystery, part myth. It is found in stillness, in seeking, in wearing the key before knowing what it opens. And sometimes, it wears horns.