Maria Lobensteijn

Synchronicity is an interesting principle;  how the universe seems to point in a certain direction by little everyday 'coincidences'. The day before making the sketch a song was playing in my head all day, it was the trance classic 'a thing called love' by Above and Beyond. The next morning I put on Instagram Stories and the first thing I heard was the akoustic version of the song, wich was a weird coincidence because its an old song put on Stories by trance dj/producer Alessandra Roncone. The universe pointed in the right direction, I was on the right freeway.

The painting ia a collage of symbols: Matrix symbols like the left and right side I didn't choose, where people are plugged into the Matrix and believe they're leading a normal life on the left side, but are actually used as batteries.

Because the driver didn't choose either side, the signal 57 is given which means : trust the fact that this change brings you on your heavenly track. 17 stands for thinking in the right direction, the Holy Trinity and the pyramids. In order to learn real life lessons, difficult or not, one has to follow the white rabbit. The reward will be a real life, like Neo has to learn in the movie, following the rabbit and swallowing the red pill (red head-rests of the car). To find reality and true happiness he has to redefine his concepts of that reality. Just like any of us needs to do for themselves. Then one can realize that one can bend reality around the spoon instead of trying to bend the spoon itself.

Personal note:  I haven't found a life partner yet so the passenger seat in this car is for someone else who's also not afraid of swallowing the red pill.