Mind Games Zwart Wit

Martine Jacobs · 2004-10-20T00:00:00Z

Title: Mindgames Artist: Martine Jacobs Medium: Digital Collage (2004) Series: Emotional Surrealism Description: Mindgames is a dual-panel digital collage exploring inner conflict and spiritual duality. Two blue-toned Buddha figures anchor the composition, their serene expressions disrupted by the intrusion of a classical painting — a contemplative figure in pink robes beside a tree. The background pulses with green and white abstract textures, suggesting mental turbulence or psychic layering. This juxtaposition of Eastern stillness and Western romanticism evokes a dialogue between memory and meditation, past and presence. The work plays with repetition and mirroring, inviting viewers to consider how spiritual icons are recontextualized in digital space. Created in 2004, Mindgames reflects Jacobs’ ongoing inquiry into emotional fragmentation and symbolic reconstruction in the early internet era.