Yana
I was named Yana and I have been drawing, painting and making on and off since childhood. The process of translating thoughts, feelings, and ideas into visible objects in the physical world is necessity when words are just not enough. These visual notes of what is, bring clarity and calm.
About five years ago I decided to allow myself to be in the flow of making as often as I could, to consciously let this become an addiction.
The state of being under the spell of an idea, while driven by the power of infinite possibilities of making, the lack of space-time, the lost of self, it became an obsession. I extended my feelers seeking connection with worlds of colours, forms and spaces. It sounds like escapism, but gives me my purpose and great joy.
I have always read, reading comes first. Words seep into my mind, charge me with overwhelming feelings that I could not express in any other than the visual language. My thoughts are usually scattered, fragmented and linking in impossible and incomprehensible ways, I am bad at remembering facts, I often exist beyond words. Making is both a necessity and an obsession, a space where words fall short and infinite possibilities unfold.
I love making things, I am a highly disciplined and open-minded person. Some of my favourite topics to engage with are the ancient worlds, the human-animal’s entanglement with everything, natural history and future possibilities.
I could be inspired by everything that exists - each creature and thing is a cosmos of possibilities and there is fascinating beauty in the universal chaos. Humans always try to find patterns, categorize the laws of nature, create order, and search for the meaning of things. In any order, when examined closely enough, disorder and unpredictability are found. My mind embraces entropy as the ultimate nature of creation.
I make sense of life as a wonder that allowed me to be here and now and have this particular drive to make things.
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