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Description: "I enjoyed drawing , as all children do. Understanding my surroundings was still far away, but there were smells and feelings, huge rats and headaches.It was another life strongly influenced by nature. I had been watching and examining for a long, long time, before all of this shaped itself, after many years, into conviction and painting. It all surfaced from subconsciousness? In the mean time I finished secondary school and begun studying technical school, where I gained secondary education. It gave me nothing, and did not fill even a little area of my brain hemispheres.I was feeling useless. Rationalism and routine, however, would have finally suppressed the psychedelic fever and would have feeded my minority complexes, if it was not for the striving of my subconsciousness. Taking it's roots in the childhood it bursted the frontiers of banality. 1990 was not only the year of sun eruptions, but also of my brain. My heart confessed to me and opened the gate of creativity. I crossed it, forever, without looking back, with no doubt, lost for shadow and disbelief!!!" [from:safonkin.com/author.htm] Victor Safonkin (born 1967 at Saransk) is a surrealist painter.Victor Safonkin's work is self-described as Eurosurrealism, or European classic surrealism & symbolism. His work is redolent of Salvador Dali. Victor's work has been highly acclaimed, and in 2005 he was invited to exhibit at the European Parliament in Brussels. The rock band Killing Joke used his 'Hosannas from the Basements of Hell' as an album cover in 2006. Viktor Safonkin is featured in the 2007 ["Venus and the Female Intuition,]" published by SALBRU. Safonkin has been called "one of the most brilliant artists I have seen in a long time," by master Surrealist Professor Ernst Fuchs. [from:all-art.org/art_20th_century/safonkin1.html] Music: Steve Roach "Begin Where I End"