This work started as a boring process and finished as a new experience of colour.
I already was writing about the boring process of making these half balls. I was thinking ten times that I’m going just stop this in the middle and that’s it. But I continued. I was driven by a curiosity about the final result. I saw how it should look like.
(12.05.2021) on Pinterest, I saw work by Molly Blumberg. This form reminded me about paper crafts at school and it makes me try it again. Artist also works with the paper and let the work develop itself without a preconceived idea. “I often find myself in a position of having to fight for the legitimacy of creating meaning through materiality, or for regarding intuition as a form of embodied knowledge. As many craft people know, our bodies often know the way around the material in advance of conscious thought. I like to let my body do the decision-making. At the same time, I purposely work with materials that exert their own kind of agency…. Through an extreme engagement with materiality, these sculptures capture movement and transformation [while] expressing [the] physicality of the ways [in which] bodies engage with the world.” Published on September 23, 2020, Intimate Justice: Molly Blumberg, written by S. Nicole Lane At: https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/intimate-justice-molly-blumberg/ (Accessed 30.07.2021)
After balls became hard I prepared one canvas with my flowery way. While it was wet I stick balls on top. And at this point, I already started to be positively excited.
The whole composition and idea came from the works Dream and Untitled. I was thinking more about what colour of "dream" can bring?
At the beginning I was thinking about blue and orange inner colour but suddenly my husband came to my studio and comment about the same). This reaction of the viewer made me think about pop combinations (some colour or composition combinations which are expected), prediction and the purpose of my art.
And here my nationality came on the surface. Gzhel is a Russian traditional decorative pattern used on ceramics. I made a decision to go for white.
And the result made me sit in front of the ready work for an hour (!) and just enjoy… and think… and meditate.
The Colour inside of the “eggs” pulls the attention and starts the dialogue with you.
This deep alive colour reminded me of Anish Kapoor Void
Anish Kapoor's 1989 work 'Void’ At: https://www.art-critique.com/en/2020/03/kapoor-features-vantablack-for-the-first-time/ (Accessed 30.07.2021)
Even though that the artist together with scientists was developing special pigment from carbon particles it is about colour and light. In this case, it is 99,96% black space inside the half-round constriction.
In my case, it is a play of pictorial painting inside of the multiple half-round forms. It changes incredibly with light and eyes are catching each of these changes. I captured the space inside of my painting. When watching from far one can think about holes but it is not. And as Anish Kapoor said it is amazing to do something which is not.)))
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