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G E O M E T R Y   O F   O R G A N I C

A life is organic as body or tree, at the same time it has structure and logic as geometry or mathematics. Every known life form begins as a geometrical form, a sphere – the shape of the ovum. Then we become a 4-cell tetrahedron, then 8-cell cube. From two cubes we turn back into a sphere at 32 cells, then we become a 512-cell torus... Earth and its magnetic field is also a torus. There is geometry and structure in small entities such as molecules and in huge such as Universe. We don’t always see these structures, because they are smaller/bigger than eye/mind can comprehend.

Geometry is often serving profane functional purposes – in precise technical drawings, maps and schemes.  On the other hand, geometry is also being thought of as something containing sacred knowledge, full of awe, mystery, and unknown. It speaks both to rational and sensual in us.

In this project I explore connections of organic and structured, straight and soft, spontaneous and planned, earthly and magical. I'm looking into people’s relations with each other, home, nature, themselves: connections within the “inland empire”, with the other beings and the world. Simple happenings are seen as rituals, sacred acts. A handshake, a swim, a look at the sky, a walk in the forest, a memory from childhood, an embrace with beloved. How can a feeling be visualized, crystallized and brought into observable shape? How can one draw a deep breath or a mutual heartbeat? How do our experiences create crystals inside our chest and expand it into the open?



Picture
Vesica Piscis/
graphite on paper, 30x42 cm
studies of human anatomy
​graphite on paper, 30x42 cm
installation views, Umeå Konsthall
I
two galaxies
on one longitude

II
converge
penetrate
interweave
consolidate

III
wiry fingers
gently move apart
warm branches of marble ribs
reaching to the flesh of heartbeats

IV
open 
naked
and
vulnerable
they black out the silence
reverberating in the ground
as whispers of ancient spells

V
​all the mountains fall
all the waterfalls surrender
and the red drowns in the blue
becoming absolute





Picture
​ABSOLUTE
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
​*
Picture
dry-point print
42x30 cm
​*
whatever it is - swim about it
wherever you are - we swim in one water

...

for better, for worse - sea, swallow me

...
​
over here
sun never
falls asleep
but water
is still cold

in this coldness
we search for openings 
of Golfstream
to rest our bodies
​in these warm wombs
wishing
we could stay here
forever




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W   x   E
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Picture
SWIM ABOUT IT
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
​*
(...)

it flows into the open
throughout the ribs 

wakes up the birds
and makes them float disorderly 
in a perfect composure


(...)
Picture
PERFECT DISORDER
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
​*
Picture
dry-point prints
17x25 cm​*
 
Picture
LETTING IN
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*
/\ 

O
​

[ ]
Picture
/\  O  [ ] 
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*
through the darkness
we sail under the water skin
with 
footworn sun 

we keep the 
warmth
until it's time
to grow red
​again





















☉
солнце
sol
sun
soleil
Picture
GROW RED (again)
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*
drawings on millimeter paper
29x42 cm
​*
Изображение
∞
casein paint and graphite on paper
diptych, 220x150 cm
  
Picture
ABSOLUTE
graphite and casein paint on paper
150x105 cm
Picture
STRUCTURE OF A BREATH
graphite and casein paint on paper
​150x105 cm
Picture
TOTEM
graphite and casein paint on paper
​150x105 cm
Picture
STRATIFIED WATERS
graphite and casein paint on paper
​150x105 cm
Picture
BEHIND OUR EYELIDS - A STARSKY; CLOSE THE EYES - WE SHARE THE COSMOS
graphite on paper
​235x152 cm
Изображение
HOMESICK
​graphite and casein paint on paper, 150x100 cm
RANDOM UNIVERSES
casein gesso, earth pigment, chalk, graphite on found wood and linen

   
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