Self Transformism
The Collection
32 works by Sossio, each paired with words by Elio D’Anna.

The dominating influences
It’s your responsibility to make sure that creative thoughts and positive emotions constitute the dominating influences in your Being.
You cannot change the outer conditions without changing the inner ones.
Train your Being to constantly weed out fear and worry, and cultivate success, happiness, health and prosperity. It’s your inner Being that creates and projects the world you are living in.
Oil on canvas · 160 × 120 cm · 2012

Out of the crowd
The more you work on yourself for your integrity, the less you will be hypnotized by mass-collective forces.
Do not mix or identify with the crowd, you will get stuck! The crowd is the outer representation of your inner fragmentation and sorrow. The more you become innerly integrated the less you will participate in gatherings and meetings.
Thousands and thousands of human beings gathered together into squares, stadiums or theatres, screaming and shouting at a football game or at a rock concert or at a political demonstration, are the most significant manifestation of your deadly inner multitude whose only mission is to destroy you. Loneliness, fear and violence can only be won through self-awareness.
Oil on canvas · 180 × 120 cm · 2012

No one can set you free but yourself
The body is indestructible and is paradoxically incurable because it cannot get ill.
What you call illness is only part of the process of integration and any external intervention, be it surgery or medicine, means giving up the omnipotence, the indestructibility, the immortality of the body - and above all, it means an abdication of the Will, of your own Integrity.
Oil on canvas · 130 × 200 cm · 2007

The body is the battlefield
It’s here in this body and nowhere else what you can win all battles.
Whatever happens in the outer world, remember yourself, that is, be entirely responsible for it, and everything will settle and turn for your own advantage.
Oil on canvas · Diptych, 80 × 100 cm × 2 · 2022

The healing power of the antagonist
Duality is fun if you recognize it.
The war of opposites is for you the most delightful game and the most favorite one if you acknowledge yourself as the only player with no antagonist.
Oil on canvas · 54 × 70 cm · 2018

Dematerialization means to disappear from mortal eyes
If you are really alive, that is present, conscious, whole you cannot be seen by people who are ruled by innumerable inner deaths.
The art of materializing and dematerializing belongs to one who has attained inner integrity. If you are whole then you will manifest everlasting life and will be visible only to higher beings who permanently live in the absence of death.
For the average man a higher level of being is unknown and inexistent, and if you know how to raise the vibrations of your body you’ll disappear from his destructive, deadly vision.
Oil on canvas · 60 × 80 cm · 2018

Facing fear
When you face your fear within, beauty is more beautiful and problems are all solved.
Oil on canvas · 75 × 90 cm · 2019

Masterpiece
The masterpiece of your very dreaming is... You.
The outer world is only a faded shadow of your inner creativity, a very pale manifestation of your uniqueness.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 200 cm · 2019

A student of inner chemistry
A student of inner chemistry must first develop himself within, so that through bitter practice and the bearing of pain and suffering, he may begin to transform first his inner being and consequently the outer world.
Real treasure lies in inner vitality, and true wealth in inner energy; focusing your attention here is the way to accumulate power and nourish and develop yourself within.
You must contain the world within, while acting as an actor without. The task is easy, but you keep going into the world to search for tangles and complications.
Sit still and grow in happiness. Accumulate your power within. Be inaccessible! Secretly obscure your light and silently cancel your steps, so that ordinary men have neither sight nor sound of you.
Await the hour when your fame will travel the Earth and become borne upon the List of Immortals… This freedom is already yours, you should only “remember” and be aware of it.
Oil on canvas · 80 × 120 cm · 2013

Get into trouble... intentionally
Push yourself to the brink of the abyss, ‘firmly trusting’ your intuition and integrity. The problems and difficulties you suffer and that apparently overwhelm you, will be instantly resolved if you ‘deliberately’ expose yourself to issues and responsibilities of a higher order.
Your body is a portable laboratory. Through an intentional alchemical transformation you can change the destiny of the world.
The absurd, dreary fiction of a conflictual, unhappy humanity transforms itself into a harmonious, colorful, spectacular reality where anything of obscure and menacing like wars, poverty, disease and death become mere descriptions and disappear. The impossible becomes possible, the miraculous ready at hand, the immortality in every instant, and in every breath.... the permanent Victory.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 150 cm · 2014

Your inner order
There is no need to feel horrified about calamities in the world.
Calamities, whether natural or man-made, in their most dramatic expression, are always a projection of your inner order and perfection - you yourself are the creator, perserver and transformer of all and everything.
Oil on canvas · 80 × 120 cm · 2012

A real world
A real world is still waiting for you to be created.
Oil on canvas · 95 × 95 cm · 2011

Vibrating at a higher speed
Your vibrating at a higher speed of frequency makes you disappear to the eyes of a conflictual world.
Oil on canvas · 120 × 200 cm · 2021

The past is dust
You have to constantly abandon that which you’ve experienced because experiences are time and whatever is in time or ruled by time is false.
Shed your experiences like a snake changing its skin.
One day you will understand that what you call experience is not an external phenomenon but something that happens within yourself and that you, through your creative imagination, believe to be external and real.
Whatever you experience is only for that moment and disappears in the blink of an eye.
Oil on canvas · 160 × 120 cm · 2012

Don’t be afraid to look inside
Knowing that all comes from within and simultaneously materializes itself in the world of events, you are afraid to look inside, to be aware of anything dark or negative that happens within, believing that your attention could amplify or fix it in your being and make it last forever.
But you forget that any negative state disappears the very moment you become aware of it.
Oil on canvas · 50 × 40 cm · 2018

Original sin
You can only observe and know what ‘you are not’.
What you really are you can only be.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 100 cm · 2018

The advent of a not-doing society
All your life you’ve been told about defending your rights... to decisively react to any offense, attack or accusation coming from outside... to stand up for yourself... to speak your mind and let your voice be heard, without ever realizing that these are all lies, and that true freedom is to exercise the right to NOT react... and the true revolution - the conscious effort to remain still and silent.
While a battle rages inside you, have the strength to stay there, within, and not identify with anything going on outside.
By simply ‘doing nothing’ you will overcome all obstacles and win all battles without ever fighting.
In stillness, secretly and silently, Victory reveals and a new earth, a new heaven, a new life will appear before you very eyes.
Oil on canvas · 120 × 100 cm · 2022

The buried will
When the Will does not work, accidentality takes over, and human disasters and gloomy events are the inevitable outcome.
Whoever realizes this, looks for a School to return to the power of attention, to go all the way in and dig out the buried Will - the lost integrity - the Dream.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 75 cm · 2019

By using the inner camera of self-observation
By using the inner camera of self-observation, you begin to rise above the level of the ordinary game and a new breathing space, new aim and sphere of action opens up and you realize only then how confined you have been for years, how imprisoned and isolated.
Oil on canvas · 160 × 200 cm · 2012

The ignorance that knows all
There are no obstacles in life, but you.
Knowledge coming from outside is false.
Real knowledge comes from within - the ignorance that knows all.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 150 cm · 2012

Aging is not beyond your control
The moment you stop being dominated by the belief system that you were born and one day you are inevitably going to die, you will be yielding to a natural process of healing and youthing.
Oil on canvas · 160 × 200 cm · 2007

What you have is what you are
Enjoy what you have, because what you have is just what you are dreaming, and at the same time you’re also dreaming of not having what you don’t have!
Oil on canvas · 150 × 100 cm · 2011

That deep, dark blue space
The darkness that you see when you close your eyes, that deep, dark blue space, is the projected shadow of your own Being.
Take rest in that shade, and there is nothing that you will not understand.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 100 cm · 2019

Try to be ‘deliberately’ sad
Try to look for and carefully focus on the evil inside yourself.
You will be amazed and disappointed at the same time, because when negative emotions like fear, doubt, worry, anger or pain are simply gazed upon, they instantaneously dry up and die.
Oil on canvas · 120 × 100 cm · 2022

Loneliness and solitude
Loneliness is a word to express the pain of being alone.
And solitude is a word to express the glory of being alone.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 90 cm · 2010

Beyond within
The inner journey is a very hard, dangerous task. You find within yourself mountains, oceans, deserts, forests, precipices and abysses to overcome, wild beasts, horrible monsters and impossible battles to win just like the most arduous, adventurous expeditions on earth that only very few men have been able to face.
Self-discovery is the very reason to begin such a journey, and Self-Mastery is the incredible, wonderful achievement that every man on earth should aspire.
And this is just what a top leader needs today.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 150 cm · 2012

Abyss
The whole game is based on entering into the abyss of the unknown remembering at the same time that there is no abyss at all.
Enter into the hidden depths of your own Being and feel yourself at ease.
Oil on canvas · 50 × 70 cm · 2010

The healer
The antagonist is the one who shows the part within you that has to be healed.
Oil on canvas · 150 × 150 cm · 2010

Thought is too slow
Reality is so simultaneous to dreaming, that before you can even think to change it, it already is.
Thought is too slow to change reality, only Being can do it.
You are, reality is.
Oil on canvas · 150 × 100 cm · 2011

Observing your inner war
To learn or acquire real knowledge through conversations or books or studies, is impossible. The level and the limits of your knowledge and understanding are defined and determined by your own being.
Oil on canvas · 100 × 100 cm · 2022

It’s time
It’s time for you to die to all which is lifeless.
It’s time to be reborn.
It’s time for the greatest adventure a man can possibly imagine: the regaining of his own lost integrity.
Oil on canvas · 80 × 100 cm · 2019

The world exists because of you, without you the world simply collapses
The entire universe is only a pale shadow of your inner being.
There is a Sun out there because the real Sun is in you. There is a Moon in the sky because the real Moon is within you. There are planets, stars and galaxies out there but they are only a symbolic representation of the infinity inside you.
There are Gods and demons, UFOs and aliens, ghosts and monsters out there that can enslave you and eat you if you forget that they are mere figments of your own imagination.
Realize that you yourself are the dreamer, the sole creator and governor of the entire universe and of all the matter that surrounds you which is no more than the dust of your own projections.
The world exists because of you, without you the world simply collapses.
Oil on canvas · 150 × 100 cm · 2009