For some reason, I wanted to return to a very useful exercise from my "Painting 2" course, where you had to make a table with objects.
But the day before, I had already started thinking about the current task and organized this:
What is the most amazing of the four things, three have already been marked as important by me once.
This is an icon - I'm not very pious, I'm not even sure that I believe in God, but I believe in the universe, in its connection with each of us (this is already metaphysics). This portrait of Saint Matrona was given to me by my mother. …
A sharp contrast between "piety" and "asceticism" is the Chanel bracelet. This object reflects a human-created model of value, which is not really a value. Last time on my "desktop" it was Chanel nail polish, but the goal was the same. It is to understand how value is formed, and why it becomes attractive and desirable. Why does this bracelet seem valuable to me, but not like a pasted portrait of a saint on cardboard?
And one more contradistinction - this is my sketch object from glued and painted newspapers, cardboard, plaster, and wood. This object made from building debris represents my sculptures. What is the value of this object? For me, this is beauty and subtle aesthetics, my work and the long process of searching for answers ... art.
These three objects were presented two years ago as defining importance to me.
The newspaper becomes a new object for me. If two years ago this material revealed my synaesthesia to me, now it has revealed to me the power of delusion. The media have deprived me of my parents and sister. They separated me from those people whom I knew, this is already someone else, new, not like the one I spent most of my lifetime. This cheap paper material has become a destructive force capable of tearing families apart and making believe that killing can be right.
How do we give objects value? Why can a piece of Chanel jewellery cost the same as an art object made from recycled materials? Why can one say to a piece of plastic with non-precious pebbles that it is beautiful, but to a piece of wood with pebbles he will say that it is disgusting?! How does a person morally choose a country instead of his child? And commits murders because of an idea? Why can one person accept the value of modern incomprehensible art, and another close this door once and for all? Why does one in a difficult situation return to morality and simple values, while the other rushes into the abyss of aggression?
These are not new questions; humanity has always led warriors and killed people. Many books have been written and a huge amount of research has been done, but why then does it hurt so much again.
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