Yana
I am a visual learner - always need to write and draw things to understand or remember them. Painting is one of my favourite ways to communicate with and about myself. It allows me to express emotions and ideas, solve problems, and visualise abstract concepts. For me, it is an enjoyable process of translating thoughts, feelings, and ideas into visible objects in the physical world. These visual notes of what is, bring clarity and calm. My goal is not to reproduce what I see but what I feel. The overcrowded mind experiences tension between the complicated and the simplicity, which is best resolved through explosion of textures and colour, sufficient negative space, and simplifying the shapes.
I sometimes start with an intention fed by research or inspiration. I still let myself be surprised by what will appear under my hands. Often the work seems to take control, and I become the mere tool, the conductor for its creation. Uninhibited drawing is a feeling most wondrous and addictive, as of a force bigger that wants to manifest something through me. It is also like a magical playground where I can create new worlds, escaping into the dream realm of the subconscious and the imaginary, my soul's home. It is comfortable and fun.
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, search for the meaning of things. To me, 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 an accidental wonder that allowed me to be here and now and have this particular drive to make things.
Continuously developing my skills became integral to my life journey and personal growth. It is essential creating to remain a playful, organic, and authentic activity.
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