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The Invasion of Myths ...
... Between the Worlds


Between the Worlds I

Between the Worlds II

Between the Worlds III

Alice in Wonderland (Garden Dreams II)

River Daughters, Water Fairies or Rusalka Nymphs (The Rheingold I)

Wotan and Fricka as Hypostases of Many Gods (The Rheingold II)

Where are the Valkyries? (Garden Dreams I)

In the combination of ideal and dream landscapes, places of pleasure and love, enclosed gardens and springs with the water of life, the paintings from the cycle “The Invasion of Myths …Between the Worlds” tell us the path from one’s self in the outer world to one’s self in the inner world. This path leads to contemplation, to the search for bliss, sensuality, love, and the inner fruits of the soul. The motifs of the dark, mystical, and foggy forest and thicket, which are often found in this cycle of paintings, express the unconscious states, impulses and longings that appear to be unavoidable on this path.

The introjected past also plays a role in this search. The ancestors appear in some of the pictures of this cycle in the form of the different hypostases of many ancient goddesses and goddesses known on the European continent since prehistoric times. The ancient goddesses of Vinča* in Southern Europe later correspond to Trojana or Fricka in Northern Europe. Lada and Vesna are the same as Freya, Mokoša, Aphrodite and Venus. The original Gods Vinčas* like Trojan, Triglav, Svarog or Wotan. Perun in Slavs is the same as Thunder, Thor, Zeus, or Jupiter. Even far away from her birthplace in the south, Avramovic symbolically finds her ancestors in the north.

* The Vinča culture developed from the 6th to the 3rd millennium BC in south-eastern Europe along the Danube basin, in the territory of today’s Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia.