I am not starting my personal project now, it started ten years ago when I started thinking about art 24 hours a day. From that moment on, I started thinking about how I can uniquely identify myself through visual art. But, very objectively, everything needs to be learned, and it takes time. I needed to learn how to draw with a pencil, watercolours, oils, try clay modelling, plaster casting, understand the basics of colour and feel it, learn how to work with perspective and chiaroscuro, go through art history, dance, and then destroy it all and do, a lot of bad art and understand why it was bad. And throughout this process, I thought about what I want to say and what new in art I am doing?
Now, after gaining experience, the task is to determine what will be my direction and what is my feature?
I have to accept some facts about myself that have a significant impact on my work - I am obsessed with art, I cannot help but work with my hands. I am not patient, and I do everything quickly like a monkey. I jump from branch to branch and want to do something positive but intelligent and sophisticated. The personality of the artist invariably manifested in the final product. It is, for example, like Jeff Koons in a suit and his interest in sales and his glossy, shiny mass-produced art. Or, in contrast, Phyllida Barlow, who takes everything to heart, did not seek fame but worked in an artistically dirty workshop and her art is simple, messy, and revealing the beauty of the material.
While analyzing my actions in front of the canvas - drawing as a movement, I realized that this is not entirely relevant to me. It is rather, a void, a white canvas or other material, and then the transformation into the matter, colour, texture. This harmony of materials and colours and how it was achieved is not essential to me. But I'm aware of it. Today I can draw, and tomorrow I can make a presentation on the computer - in both should be a balance. Something that no one can explain when evaluating certain phenomena or art. It's like love, no one can say what it is for sure, but there is a set of sensations that most often accompany this feeling.
As it became clear from my altar (https://www.marinawittemann.com/post/contemporary-approaches-to-still-life-collect-make-arrange), twenty-five per cent of my subjects is endowed with spiritual and metaphysical components. The nationality of this group of things is also obvious, as well as beauty, elegance and sophistication. On the other hand, bold, raw materials are abundant in my workflow and modern technology. Therefore, I want to continue developing these areas, to analyze their combinations and their manifestations.
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