These are Straggler beginnings. The adventure began in 2007, and only some of the numerous works were selected.
Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" is among the most treasured masterpieces of the Renaissance. He depicts the beautiful, pagan goddess of love Venus, as a symbol of the coming spring.
In my opinion one of the most important aspects of this painting is motion, which symbolizes energy, and I tried to highlight this side of Botticelli’s Venus in my artwork.
No orange trees with leaves in the background, no roses sprinkled throughout the atmosphere, no waves, no other persons, no seashell, as a symbol for a woman's vulva - just a naked woman and pure energy!
I am inspired by the letters between Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok.
ER to Hick:
"I wish I could lie down beside you tonight & take you in my arms."
Hick writing to ER after a long separation:
"Only eight more days . . . Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time. Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just north-east of the corner of your mouth against my lips. . . ."
So deep emotional pain and so strong desire... And so beautiful words...
I see artists first and foremost as storytellers who use shapes, colors and composition to write emotional stories. In that sense, this work is also a small story, which wants to remind us of the beauty we are surrounded by in our everyday life. We only need to look around us a little, and the beauty is there!
When a planet is "just right for life", it is called a Goldilocks planet. Goldilocks planet is a planet that can support life because it is neither too hot nor too cold, too big nor too small, too near its star nor too far. It's not easy to imagine such quite new worlds, but there exist some secrets unknown to science! We must know our emotions well and not to be afraid of what those emotions might tell us. So, the fantasy inside of me begins, my journey begins...
The entire "Imaginary Landscape" cycle of works can be seen on the imagekind website.
The entire "Imaginary Landscape" cycle of works can be seen on the imagekind website.
The work "Gone With the Wind" is characterized by a distinctly horizontal format that gives the impression of a panoramic view, which it actually is, inviting the viewer to move through the scene as if following a scene in motion.
In the central part of the work there is a female figure, and the melancholy panoramic view is a picture of her life. The choice of colors is darker and speaks of a joyless and difficult life, and the light that occasionally breaks through the cracks in the structure are rare moments of joy and happiness.
In the end, she is tragically alone, as in the famous Eleanor Rigby song, and the only thing left for her are painful memories followed by the feeling of disappearance, transience and human fragility.
A mysterious pier shrouded in smoke and fog, the evening light flashes in the water, which seems to be hiding something from the threatening sky.
This is the first version of my favorite theme, which I later realized in a triptych format.
Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. Fantasy has long borrowed the idea of "another world" from myth, legend and religion. Heaven, Hell, Olympus, Valhalla are all "alternative universes" different from the familiar material realm. Modern fantasy often presents the concept as a series of planes of existence where the laws of nature differ, allowing magical phenomena of some sort on some planes. This concept was also found in ancient Hindu mythology, in texts such as the Puranas, which expressed an infinite number of universes, each with its own gods....And this is my work with a question: "Are you sure the stars wait, behind the parallel universe gate?"
Mobirise