On one side of our moral scale there are virtues and intellectual skills, and on the other side are social pressures and normative expectations. The balance between these is precarious and depends on factors such as family, friends, physical health, mental well-being and financial stability. However, successful careers nowadays take precedence over mental health, leading to depression, anxiety and burnout, which affect the vast majority of today’s society.
A balanced lifestyle is the ‘nirvana’ of the modern man, but in many cases it is a mere illusion that prioritizes material goods over spiritual wealth. The question arises, how can we maintain the integrity of our psyche in such circumstances? Heat Adam presents these dilemmas in his latest body of work, combining the tools of traditional painting with elements of the graffiti subculture and augmented reality-based digital animations, thus testing himself and his self-awareness with new technical challenges.
