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TECHNIQUE
To choose. Everything has it´s price, always. The most intensive heat burns.
Adapt yourself and survive. Life is a happy game with sad rules. Something very huge is composed of super small particles. To find the balance and the ways how it alters.
About the changes. I never know in the beginning how will the work look like in the end.

About the surprises. In order to assemble something new some things have to be put away, removed; things get lost, disappear or become forgotten. Only broken surface can let us see the hidden price. How far can you go within the boundaries of trust, how close can you let yourself get to someone or let someone get close to you. I just tell what happened to characters. I just try to describe. During some tiny tiny moments which proved to be meaningful afterwards.

ANIMAL TOYS
Representatives of certain animal species. The expectations, generalizations, beliefs and symbolism around animal themes. I also observe how some of them were positioned in ancient cultures and especially how they still have such a powerful part in our everyday surroundings. They are the advertisements which appeal to us and touch us the most. Animals are connected to many industrial materials and they are also on leading roles on fables which we read or watch on TV.
I make experimentations on people when I try to get them see themselves as animal characters, but to animals I try to give back their animal powers which the toy makers often try to hide, bring down or deny altogether. My goal is not to make them human puppets.
I never make them tell only stories about people, without telling their own story at the same time.

MATERIALS
Most of the times in my work I use amber, glass or stone beads connected to plastic toys with metal pins. Sometimes I also cast glass.
Glass is something which looks in the end super cold material, but has needed enormous amount of warmth along the way of being manufactured. It needs to be handled with great care, or it may harm you. It is that special combination of fragility and hidden potency which keeps on charming me time after time.
Stones are for me the reminders of apparent stability, pure nature and originality.
Plastics are the fighters of the modern days, using them I try to tell about corruption, arrogant exploitation and unavoidable destruction among and around us.

 

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