Some of my recent work: Pages from Gogol, N (1832) & Pages from Platonov, A (1939), on show at Five Walls Prohect Space, Melbourne
I keep returning to Gogol, to his series of stories based on Ukrainian folktales where the world is turned upside down.
A new painting. Oil and pencil on linen 36x46 cm
New drawing on A3 Arches paper. Text fragment translated from a poem by Larissa Joonas.
Recently I've been working with mirrored overlapping forms and reading an experimental folktale about a child's misguided sight being visionary for others. Crayon on Lana paper, 30x21 cm
There is so much work like this on bark and it is so special in terms of its mix of imagery and world view.
@olgaz.bsky.social thanks for the repost
Orion and the Pleiades: Minimini Mamarika, 1957 earth pigments on bark. Anindilyakwa people, Northern Territory. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Man in a Cabbage Field: Edvard Munch, 1916. In the"Gothic Modern" exhibition at the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
That sounds like persistance and timeliness
Kastani Street in Tartu. While on an artist residency in Estonia last year the owner renovating the house showed me around, on the roof under the eaves was an impish figure. It made me think hidden in geometry of wooden houses are such creatures, and he had simply called it out by adding the eyes.
