Amenouzume Drawing

The fragile balance and fusion of what is self-controlled and passionate, what is thought and felt, ordered and chaotic, individual and shared is a source of true art. This primordial unity of the Dionysian and Apollonian, so greatly described by young Nietzsche in 'The Birth of Tragedy', is also what I wish my art to comprise of. This juxtaposition, of what belongs to nature and what belongs to culture, what is real and unreal and out of control and controlled, was also a subject of philosophical speculations of ancient Chinese thinkers who saw art as a game of these forces in which artist ought to become "a tool in the hands of Dao" – the unnameable principle of flow. A skilled artist was considered a craftsman of li – an ancient pattern of nature that can be found in everything around us. As a philosophy graduate, I aim at combining the meaningfulness and spontaneity, thought and intuition in order to create art at its best: full of hidden significance yet light and joyful. I see art as a completion, or even coronation for philosophy, and painting itself as a scaffolding for thought – a construction to initiate and support ideas and concepts and also, as a structure created to refresh the façade of mind. The meaning, in this case, arrives spontaneously revealing itself out of lines and shapes gradually for the trustful eye of the artist, who ought to transform it into a public exposition. No initial plan, only the journey itself is important, journey through the means of mind, colour and texture to the finalization: ambiguous, subjective, multidimensional. The images presented are filled with semi-abstract objects, seemingly random compositions and various styles. One of the styles, which I call "nanopainting", is a usage of different media, such as artificial blood, ink, glitter and pencil, used to "pack" each centimetre of the image with meaning, to leave the impression that both the fragment and the work are just small parts of some bigger, perhaps limitless wholeness; like a cutaway, a puzzle of a great jigsaw.