Once upon a time, not that long ago, there was creative pattern. This particular creation was later borrowed and included into my visual imagination.
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This obsessive – compulsive fascination with visual pattern started with an innocent splash of paint. This rather unexpected gesture on my part has turned my canvas into a ruined blue background from were a simple form of pattern appeared and started to tickle my imagination. Pattern has become my weakness, a passion that allows me to narrate stories and emotions. For me, pattern has become a broad subject area to investigate. It may be linked to many different eras and practices in visual art, such as the prehistoric visual rituals, narrator of cultural beliefs or a part of the Industrial Revolution in the western culture. Throughout the various stages, pattern was often considered and widely exploded as a visual messenger and narrator. |
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Pattern can be depicted in visual practice as a designed image that is continually repeated, or it may also be presented as a singular motif that depicts repetitive value. Pattern may allow for artists like myself, and the viewer, to drift back and forth between the real and the imaginary world. A world where fantasy, abstract ideas and forms exist and enter into new dimensional levels of consciousness. For each individual, pattern represents a unique calculated code structure. Not everyone experiences art (in this case pattern) in the same way, but it may stimulate some kind of emotion in a viewer which may link him or her to the past or present. To something that was, may be or an emotion that they treasure and guard. |
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From all these ideas; I wanted to create a particular setting in my paintings: where a different imaginary atmosphere may exist and become an almost dream-like unreality. In this unreality the boundaries between fact and fiction change, creating a different world that reflects our very own. This particular world, that I have tried to create in my paintings, has been drawn from gathered information on pre-historic Slavic and contemporary western culture in pattern making. It has enabled me to enter and later present a personal perception of pattern making. Also, throughout my work I have tried to create a feeling of stillness, elegance and slight play with illusion. For what is really the real in the imaginary aspect of pattern making? |