Drawings
During COVID, I was not able to paint in my studio or to get my supplies to work at home; so home-delivered set of watercolors and pad of paper kept me going.
The global amount of fear and uncertainty made me go back to the simplicity of geometric forms and colour fields set into stable or dynamic composition.
The Conic Series were created:
Circle is a symbol of life, continuity, return, strength and stability.
The Crystallization Series were next:
They were based on my admiration of color and strong hexagonal crystal lattice system of apatite, beryls and other hexagonal minerals.
After the simplicity of forms, the need of exploring the the opposite concepts of complexity and fragility of living forms came up - so
Butterflies Series evolved:
The metamorphosis, sense of renewal and freedom, the beauty and lightness of spirit of butterflies combined with their incredible bioengineering by Mother Nature always kept me in awe.
I watched and photographed native butterflies during summer in WI, the exotic ones in Mexico and at the Nature Museum in Chicago, also collected images from internet.
To research and reproduce them in minute details was a challenging and gratifying adventure.
'Digitalization of human mind' (shown)
deals with AI and creation of a new species of homo-digitalis replacing the homo sapiens, us.
The massive load of information is being extracted from us into the AI bank. Who is controlling and making subjective decisions of choosing or elimination, of importance or insignificance of our experiences and capabilities? While promising to improve our species and almost gifting us with immortality, are we not being critically intervened in our natural path of evolution from the beginning of time?
What about the richness of our interlocked experiences? Our unreplicable spark of creative genius? The unpredictability of human action due to our free will? The human frustration and doubt resulting in unexpected eureka? The immensity of emotions expressing themselves in multitude of interpretations? and ...the inexplicable spiritual experiences?
Have the homo sapiens reached the level of becoming the semi-gods to eventually eliminate their own species together with others' inhabiting the Earth?