Are we really free if our every behavior is the child of values we have absorbed from the culture in which we grew up?
Are we really free if our every behavior is the child of values we have absorbed from the culture in which we grew up?
True success lies not only in results, but in the ability to live and savor every moment of the journey.
If you didn't learn to disobey as a child, when you're an adult you accept anything. You accept everything, until there's nothing left of you.
We human beings live a routine life, closed in a fence called status quo…
and even when we sense that real life begins right outside that fence… we continue to obey and remain holed up in the ordinary.
A person eats and drinks to fill the body, expresses his creativity to fill the Soul. To discover oneself.
My path has given me the realization that embracing one's diversity is the only way to truly be well. And to realize oneself.
Being disobedient means loving our own diversity and respecting the diversity of others.
And it means taking responsibility for bringing about changes that make this world a little better than we found it.
Twenty years later, I have realized that real success is not about achieving something important.
But leaving a better world than we found it.
And for me a better world is one where diversity is exalted, not discouraged.
Since childhood we have been taught to live life without questioning anything.
And to blindly walk the path set before us.
Which is the easiest thing for sure.
But also the saddest.
Do I want to be the director of my life, or is it enough for me to play the part I am given?
Little story of how I became a disobedient (artist).
I am Emanuele “Renton” Fortunati, a spiritual and esoteric researcher: art is the laboratory where I carry out my experiments.
My aim is to reveal the connections between the spiritual and material worlds, because I believe that the essence of every Human Being is hidden right at the border between these two worlds.
What moves me is the idea that in each of us there exists a raw identity, free from social and cultural conditioning, and that if we expand our knowledge of ourselves and the reality around us enough, we can finally be free to embrace this true identity of ours. Our essence precisely.
And, thus, also be free to live according to our inclinations and create our own personal and unique life path.
Over the years I have realized that it takes 2 “steps” to find one's Essence.
The first step is to begin to disobey: abandon social rules and conditioning that prevent you from living according to your true nature.
The second step is to find your own Spiritual Identity: it is the only way you can really shine, and be a beacon for others around YOU as well.
Here it is: if my art revolves entirely around this second point, these pages, on the other hand, tell how I personally live both the spiritual quest and disobedience, with the idea that these shares can somehow come in handy for YOU and your Path as well.
Here you can find food for thought, texts that expand on my art projects and behind the scenes of my works and projects. And also a little (a lot) of healthy disobedience!