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We might be ignoring the fact that we live in the existence of war and peace. The reality is our civilisations exist and evolve by the continuous chemistry between the elements in it. When these elements are the ones that constantly oppose to each other the reaction is extremely volatile, eruptions can act like catalysts to lots of other events in waiting and eventually trigger catastrophes.

The history of mankind is all about the evolution of the civilisations with this kind of chemistry all the time. The early part of this history have been told and later written by our ancestors in the beginning as Mythological stories. I believe, this was not because the Mythology is real or not: but because our ancestor’s understandings of the surrounding world demanded some kind of explanation. The myths were the way to simplify the explanation of the world. For them, the human behaviours in the myths were the key to the happenings in the natural world and their personal life. They didn’t have the intricate, advanced civilizations that we have which are much more complicated to explain. With the expanded knowledge and the technology we have helping us analyze the world, still we don’t get it right most of the time. We all live in a satellite society where every one of us has our own individual imaginary world.

There is a love goddess in European mythology that has its origins from the earlier ancient cultures. Ancient Greeks named her Aphrodite, Romans called her Venus. According to myths the goddess of love was the unfaithful wife of Hephaestus (Vulcan), the lame son of Zeus. Her love affairs fruited four children. In one occasion sun god Helios caught her and her lover Ares (Mars) the god of war, in the sunrise being late coming out of bed. Helios told Hephaestus the god of blacksmiths what he saw which made him determine to catch the lovers in the act to show the gods of Olympus so he can complain. He made a steal and invisible net and set it up on his own bed to trap the lovers in it and call all the gods to come and see.
Darwin’s evolution theory might have explained to the world that we aren’t different than each other but still most of us cannot think and judge each other without putting a skin over what we really are. We prejudge and prejudice in everything at the first site. Most of us don’t even bother to gaze properly to appreciate anything in front of our eyes.

As most of the sculptors alive, I would like to say Rodin influenced me. Antony Gormleys insistent subject the human body and the inner space turned me back from the wilderness and my admiration to Botticelli 's compositions in his paintings dictated a discipline to me.

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