Painting from the series "PAVLO, GRAZE A COW"
The picture is made on unprimed canvas, embroidery and elements are made of wood
PAVLO, GRAZE A COW
It all started with poetic painting, the futuristic poetry of Mykhailo Semenko "PGC". Then I tried to digest the poem "Rural Landscape", to hear and see what it was about for me. From this he began his own experiments, the first rule of which was daily work.
It looked like an art project, but in fact it was as if he had written a book. Only now I have puzzled myself. I gathered together familiar images of my native horizon, and spoke about them as never before - I see what they will say in response, I am waiting.
A new beginning changed the whole process. Fragments instead of the whole - it seems that this is what my experiment is about. For the most part, he did not go beyond free letters, such a commotion of unformed words - he laid down a new alphabet. He wrote a book with it. What came out was not a story, but a notation for everyday life, because my images live in everyday life - a hut, a well, a star-sun, a key. The work "Demiurge" tells how a needle walked along a white unprimed canvas, and when its thread ran out, I dropped a new needle onto the canvas - so that it was visible how far each of them went. Maybe this is what the urban avant-garde artist Semenko's poem was about for me - about natural daily work, not always visible, established, but actually decisive.
So I meditatively embroidered, meditatively wrote down words... For myself, in art I want modernity together with folk warmth - it is this combination that gives power to speech.
To look into the work as during the day, and there are meadows and deer and from every house it is heard "Pavlo, graze a cow!". And what everyone will think about at this moment is a new mystery.
