Persona

Recreating yourself, fitting expectations is the ultimate form of violence, the form of radical change. What drives us on this path? Where is it heading? Where do we take refuge if all we thought of ourselves turns out to be negotiable? New personas we create are more compatible with the outside world, yet more poisonous for the inner world.

Persona I

30×30
Acrylics on canvas

Woman II

19.5×23.5
(framed)Charcoal, paper collage, mediums, coffee on paper

Eye of Horus

40×30

Acrylics, acrylic markers on wooden board

When working on this painting, I was inspired by the art of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. I was interested in stripping away the cultural context from the old Egyptian symbol of royal power and protection, while trying to find that line where human bravery and strength become mythical.

Eye of Ra

48×36

Acrylics on canvas

This painting is the second of the series and it continues to bring ancient symbols back to their human routes. Eye of Ra in Egyptian mythology is a feminine aspect of Ra, the God of the Sun Disk, whose tears created men. I was trying to go back to human tears and feelings behind them that were later glorified and turned into a myth of creation.

God’s Eye

48×48

Acrylics on canvas

The final painting of the series takes on the issue of myth as such. God’s eye (Ojo de Dios) is a spiritual artifact that indigenous people of the Americas used as a symbol wisdom and an attempt to understand incomprehensible, the Mystery. The darkness of this mystery shines through every face on this painting. The mystery is empty, unknowable, and dead. It is the force that drives us to create myths about our lives.

Negotiable reality of human body

40×30

Acrylics, oils, watercolors, photography collage, paper collage, painting collage, marker, mediums, fabrics on canvas

Change and time always fascinated me. The change of human body, especially the one directed by a person herself, is to me an ultimate form of violence. The black lines on the painting is a different take on this idea of “directed lines”: Those are the marking of the plastic surgeon, who brings change to our physical and mental appearance.

Untitled

36×48

Acrylics and mediums on cardboard

Faces

31×31

Collage, oil paint