Ecce 2 - A Visual Reflection on the Power of Taste
“Ecce 2” is my personal visual reflection created for the 13th DFF Slavangard, shaped around this year’s theme: “The Power of Taste.” While working on the piece, I turned to imagery that has long fascinated me - the prophetic visions found in the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation.
Both texts contain a striking, symbolic motif: the eaten book or scroll. It is an act that goes far beyond reading. The word becomes something physical - an experience with a taste that stays within the person and sets transformation in motion. Sweet and bitter at once. A taste that demands response.
In my project, I try to capture that moment when a human being doesn’t merely encounter a message but lets it enter, allowing it to become part of the inner self. In this sense, taste is not simple pleasure - it is a force capable of shifting, stirring, and guiding, often toward unexpected places.
“Ecce 2” is my attempt to portray this tension between word and experience, vision and its inner effect. It raises a question that feels as relevant today as ever: What in our lives has the kind of power to be “consumed” fully - with all its sweetness and bitterness - and to change us from within?