The Flow
Since I am primarily a printmaker by my artistic choice, which implies continuous use of conventional methods of building drawings in negative and therefore raises awareness about the creation of ‘indirect’ drawings, I came up with the initial idea of transferring the drawing from the water surface to the paper-based drawing. The water surface has become the basis on which the drawing was built by using diluted oil paints, i.e. the natural quality of the oil to float on water. Each drawing is transferred to the paper by printing – placing the surface of the paper onto the surface of the water. In this way, I wanted to catch and record the movement of water and its nature as an elusive material. Each of the prints - drawings was created in a unique but controlled process of water movement and represents a non-repeatable record of water as a kind of matter.
Created prints were placed on a pre-painted blue surface thus forming a new drawing - a whole unit having its own dynamics and its own flow of movement. Each of the prints is independent, artistically self-sufficient and contains complex structure of the microworld. In comparison with the whole unit, it becomes only a fragment of the macroworld. Thus, by equating a fragment of the whole with the whole itself, I give equal importance to both of them, drawing attention to the same creation process and indicating that by observing each individual print, independently on the whole unit, we can also experience and perceive the overall work.
My intention was to play with the viewers’ perception and their awareness of the size, of small becoming big and big ultimately equating with small. The perception of the drawing and the drawing itself varies in dependence on the distance of viewers. As viewers draw nearer to the work, they perceive a detail presenting a diffused microworld. As viewers start moving away, their attention is attracted by meandric structure of the water flow until, finally, all microworlds get associated with the water network and become the elements of the macroworld.
The work is made in the form of a triptych, consisting of three panels of MDF (Medium-density fibreboard) of dimensions 140x207x0,4cm, fixed to a wooden frame of thickness 2.5 cm. The panels are fully connected and attached to the wall and make the whole unit of dimensions 420x207x3cm. Each panel is uniformly painted in blue acrylic and contains paper drawings glued onto it.
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