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Rejecting the opportunity to work in a bank, I dove into the exploration of artistic creation and study. My prior study of economics influenced me to question the sustainability of my artistic processes, of the cycle of a material, a product of art and its dissemination. Through this development, I came to prefer art as sustainable and symbiotic and see my artistic process as a holistic one.
Every day is a new opportunity for a more creative approach to everything we do, so my approach to artistic expression has also developed. In the very beginning it was associated with black and white photography, through expression and works that are expressions of internal states, not necessarily related to a particular concept or intention, to more extensive works by which I ponder the relationship between human and other animals. They are for me our mirrors, our companions, equally intelligent and special.
I started my blog as a place of presentation of works, and now, after a while, I bring it to life by writing about the creative process, the works that inspire me, creativity in collaboration with animals, creativity of the animals, thinking of human as one of the beings of the multitude, what drives us and ennobles our consciousness. Thank you for stopping bye!
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Book preview: Urban Animals: Crowding in zoocities by Tora Holmberg
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet. - Marc Bekoff Recently I wrote a book preview of Tora…
Fast lesson in losing control or “6 feet dérive” pronto
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.― Amelia Earhart How can I…
Sing it on, Dance it off!
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. - Rumi Recently I read the book Urban Animals: Crowding in Zoocities by Tora Holmberg about the close coexistence of humans and animals in urban communities. She selects a set of research…
Olgica aka Why do you take it so personal?
I wrote “Olgica aka Why do you take it so personal?” short story in 2015 while studying fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where I enjoyed my second studies and my second youth. I found myself lucky to get accepted to study there as I was, even in my 30ies,…
Why animals? Introduction.
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of…
Are you an artist only when you earn as one?
"Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says." - Judy Chicago Some time ago in a conversation with my colleague and an artist, he expressed his opinion that one can title herself/himself an artist when one earns her/his main…
What to do today?
“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”- Doris LessingIt has been another week full of life, the good, the bad, the weird.But the Monday comes, and I ask – can you tell me what to do today?It is yet another day, another week left…
Quo Vadis?
I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know where my home is, I’m like a bird… In the time of passage such as these times, often we wonder about the point - where all this shall lead us. We are divided among ourselves on those who trust and those…
Who do you think you are?
Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! Every Easter I visit my parents in my hometown. I was raised in a Catholic family and I went through questioning its rules and agenda. Today I am rather a spiritual seeker, interested in truth and its modifications and manifestations. Sometimes I see…
To farm or not to farm
The work was presented during the Interval°5. “With the performance festival Interval °5 on 15th November 2014 in Essen the action laboratory PAErsche showed solo performances by artists from Poland, Croatia and Belgium. In the temporary exhibition space ERDgeschoss visitors were offered an insight into the various trends of performance art from Europe.” Interval is…
_Memento
Your pet companions are cute and you adore them! I love ‘my’ cat family too so that is how I started to create these unique artworks first for myself and then for other humans. I named it Memento. And I would love to create that unique peace for you to treasure memories on that special kinship. To create a custom artwork Memento I use special materials that you send to me. It is hair collected from ‘your’ dog or cat family member during a daily grooming or feathers that your little bird friend left on the carpet.