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.