Description
I created the series of three mixed media hand prints. They are all called “Holes and shadows” with the following numbers I, II and III.
Grey and black parts are digital prints from hand-cut collage – the parts of the photos between the pieces that I needed for something else; blue parts are hand-painted with stencils (left out holes); pink marks are hand-painted.
Each of prints, including this one, is made in just 10 copies – 9 of them for sale (one stays with me), signed and numbered accordingly to my liking it the most. A3 paper size (29,7 x 42 cm). Nice, artsy, off-white paper, something about 150g.
The story
Blue shapes: I’ve found some photos and cut people out of them, and it created some holes – obviously. It struck me, firstly, in the context of the ‘news’ from the world. Disappearing people, the holes that once were people.
Then I thought about life and everyday losses. That sometimes you want someone in your life, or you did have — and they disappeared from your life. They left, you broke up, you lost touch. Sometimes they even died. They’re gone, but you feel they’re gone; there’s a hole left thet you remember.
Grey and black shapes: Shadows — those are people who exist, and maybe you could be close, but you are not. I’m talking about the truly hypothetical ones. You pass someone every day on the street, you meet a woman at the bakery. Maybe there’s a girl you know by name, you smile at each other sometimes, but… close relationships take time, and you don’t have it because you’re already engaged somewhere else. Maybe you no longer have space for more relationships in your life. And they’re there, like the shadow of a tree outside your window. The shadow is there, you recognize it, but the tree outside stays your window. And that’s okay.
Pink marks (or absence of them): What is remains. We are not just our losses and potential. There is life, and there are people who are. Even when sometimes, when it’s all fresh and hurtful, it seems that there’s nothing left but the hole.
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