Eroticism works as a dynamic of life. We are all the result of carnal appetites, conscious or unconscious, so why deny what’s natural and beautiful? 

For example, the yoga derives from the tantra. The word "yoga" means "union", so going back to what we wish the most in innocence and in kindness. As long as it does not become a vice or an obsession,
Eroticism is the means the most sure to commune with the nature and the divine.

The energy and the consciousness, under their unrefined or subtle shape, are the excellent resource, the engine of the physical evolution.
The love, the act of love in itself is the foundation of the universe.

Let us consider a monk and a prostitute living in the same street, houses which face each other. Who both is more spiritual? The prostitute, who receives visitor after visitor, the spirit fixed to the "Divine" or the monk who prays and meditates on the actions of the prostitute?
The secrets which we hide will make us ill …

During the history, the sexual act was always repressed and punished, one way or another, engendering any sorts of obsessions and manias.
It is thus evident, that even if the sex remains nowadays a polemical subject, rather a philosophic and psychological debate, it is concerned with the relation between the consciousness and the unconscious, or in other words, on what we reveal and on what remains hidden!

When this question will be resolved, the thoughts and the sexual fantasies will not be any more repressed or hidden: shall we be capable of living them profoundly?

Maria Sarkis use erotic symbols and typical representations of sexual fantasies. Knowing their psychological and philosophic reach, she decided to opt for a simple approach in joyful colored backgrounds, making of her paintings a space of freedom.

with the words of Maria Sarkis :”The poignant pain and the deep generosity are everywhere … That is why I believe in a deeper, but more free and more practical philosophy, which does not weigh down us of fundamentalism and fault.
What is important to me the most is to capture a brief thought, an escaped feeling, an image whatever it is, and to express it on a canvas, and to share the essence.”