CHILD AGAIN
Looking at the world with the honesty of a child is one of the prerogatives of the artist. Children do not always understand what is happening in the adult world, but they feel things subtly and experience the upset and happiness of adults. It is terrible to wake up every morning, read about bombings and death, realizing you are part of it even if you were just born and raised there, and that your past is crossed out. There is a protective childish reaction emerging on your canvas, strange images, an attempt to say something important for yourself.
Can I Look At The World Trough The Eyes Of Joy? 2022
Mixed media on canvas 160x190x3,5 cm
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I Want Your a Polka Dots Dress! 2022
Mixed media on canvas 160x180x3,5 cm
Their Games, 2022
Mixed media on canvas 150x190x3,5 cm
The Red Ball, 2022
Mixed media on canvas 170x190x3,5 cm
Evening on a farm near Dikanka, 2022
Mixed media on canvas 160x190x3,5 cm
This work is for me a paradoxical metaphor, originally a collection of short stories by the Ukraine writer Nikolai Gogol, written 1829–32, stories we all knew and loved in our childhood, heavily laced with Ukrainian folklore and cultural references, offering a unique perspective into life in the country in Gogol's time. The dark allegory came to me in March this year when I learned of the excesses of the Russian army in Bucha Ukraine, meaningful for me because of close friends and early years there.