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Apokatastasis
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And that wall profile reveals itself for what I see from the very beginning: an anthropomorphic line, a sharp contour of an eye and a mouth staring into the void. It is the post-mortem (my personal opinion) condemnation for those who left nothing but ruins during life. After, death becoming as stone (men/woman) for an indefinite time, frozen in that unappealing instant, acting as a guardian to Nothingness.
My vision completely overturns the logic of judgment. The real condemnation is the conduct during life, the daily crime of existing by destroying, while the afterlife becomes just an eternal restart from scratch after the general acquittal at the end of times. A wheel that turns where everything resets and restarts with the exact same pattern. You screw someone over, you kill, you cripple, and then it all begins anew.
The Apokatastasis! The great reset, the final restoration where everything returns to its original state and the slate is wiped clean for everyone. But as long as the Babylonian logic of private property rules—that invisible fence that separates, that says this is mine and that is yours, creating the construction site and the barrier—the wheel will never stop turning. We find ourselves stuck in that cycle for an indefinite time, condemned to repeat the exact same steps on the stage of the earth.
The midday hour, the hora sexta, is the exact moment when the sun hits from directly above, making the light ruthless and cutting the shadows with an axe. It has absolutely nothing to do with a mere nap It is the hour of the midday demon, where everything stands still, sharp, and without excuses.
In this frame, the orange net and that black block on the right look like the remains of an eternal construction site, a temporary fence on an existence that has fossilized into that piece of rough plaster. It is a ruthless but lucid reading. Until the wheel stops turning under these Babylonian rules, the only way to dismantle that enclosure is precisely what I do with the lens: cutting the light, framing the absurd, and throwing it right back in its face.
Apokatastasis is a theological and philosophical term meaning "restoration" or "restitution". In Christianity, it refers to the belief in ultimate universal reconciliation—the doctrine that all sinful beings, including fallen angels, demons, and humanity, will eventually be purified, forgiven, and restored to a state of perfect harmony with God.
