19 November 2024
3 cities, 3 exhibitions and one big lesson: stop and live
True success lies not only in results, but in the ability to live and savor every moment of the journey....
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Do you know what the hardest thing about being a father is?
Teaching your children to DISOBEY.
To stop asking permission to do anything, even the most normal thing, like getting up to go to the bathroom.
Because then when you're an adult all this obedience you pay for.And how you pay for it.
If you didn't learn to disobey as a child, when you're an adult you find yourself accepting anything.
You accept a job you hate.
You accept going to lunch with relatives you can't stand.
You accept being told by a politician how you should live.
You accept being told by a religion how you should behave.
You even accept being told how many people you can love and how many you can be intimate with.
You accept accept accept accept...until there is nothing left of you.
And so, you get to the age of 40 that you are now just a tired body trapping a spirit with no spark left.
It's inevitable: obedience leads to that.
Then we can go to the psychologist, to the coach, to the shamanic ceremony...
But how hard is it to turn things around!!?
How hard is it in adulthood to subvert the rules?
Because we all know how the game is played: when you have to support a family, pay a mortgage, take care of your elderly mother...how do you do it?
When you're an inch away from making your business work, an inch away from winning that promotion, an inch away from turning things around...how do you do it?
I don't know how you do it.
I would like to be the guru who has a solution for everyone, but I don't have a solution that works for everyone.
We human beings are not one size fits all: each one must find their own disobedience within themselves.
And then they must find a way to sew it around their own life.
But there is one thing we can all do: train our children to live disobediently.
Because in my heart I still cultivate the hope of a different future for them.
And, perhaps, for all of us too.
A future where we no longer have to ask permission to be ourselves.
We no longer have to ask permission to do what makes us feel good.
We no longer have to ask permission to love one person, or two, or three.
I want a disobedient, rebellious, extroverted… and happy future.
Because… how much happiness has obedience brought us?
Challenge the ordinary, embrace the unusual. Always.
Emanuele
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!