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What does creativity 💡 mean to you?
How do you come up with an idea for a drawing?
Have you thought about the impulse behind the idea for the drawing? I think it starts with external influences and then the idea starts to emerge internally.
This can be looked at as a dialogue between external and internal. It is interesting then that the active first step is taken by the internal. As if it’s easier to make it than to keep it inside.
I started this year 2023 on the first of January by drawing small drawings in a notebook. Every day, a small illustration until it ends. It turned out to be 110 pages and almost 3 months. Then, having chosen 3 drawings, I painted them on large canvases with oil paints. They are very different.
🔹 The first is the eel pattern. About the movement in the general flow of identical and different bodies. Drawing the dots took the most time. Overall, this painting took a lot of time.
🔹 The second is a pig sitting at a table on which a mug of tea or coffee has been knocked over. The pig seems to be ashamed of the mistake, but she is warmed by a ray of light on her face and this makes her feel good. It's nice to feel the warmth.
🔹 The third is a duck whose beak and paw colors blend into the background, separated only by a thin black line and varying shades of yellow. It is interesting that the object and background may seem to be connected and at the same time the viewer understands what is depicted. Now I'm interested in further developing this idea.
Comparing a sketch from a notebook and an oil painting, it’s interesting to think how did this happen? What was the first impulse for the idea to arise and what influenced it from outside?
How does this happen for you? This question is not even about drawing, in general, how do ideas arise? 🌞
🔹 First picture. A person reading a book: about something he saw for the first time and at the same time familiar.
Imagine that we live on a planet where it is dark most of the time and man has adapted to the darkness, just as we have adapted to daylight. The painting shows a man reading a book with black sheets and white letters. He found a shadow to make the letters easier to see.
This is something familiar. It's like you're not checking in with what you're feeling in the moment. Without worrying, you accepted and trusted your feeling, expressing maximum empathy for this something strange and different. And now, seeing another person who lives in a different world, you understand that he experiences the same feelings. It’s different for you, and you would feel uncomfortable there, but you understand that he feels just as good as you.
A similar feeling occurs when you don’t immediately understand what song you’re hearing a remix of.
It’s as if you’re saying to yourself: yeah, this is something that’s already in my luggage, but I haven’t found out what it is yet. You even feel like it already belonged to you. And now, having learned (not immediately), it’s as if you’re stirring up your feelings.
It's about the search for light (in this case shadow) as something instinctively striving towards a goal.
When the eye of the simplest organisms (our ancestors) was formed, a light-sensitive spot (I think of it as a mechanical sensor) was formed in place of the eye, which pointed to the surface of the water for photosynthesis. That’s where he strove, without thinking or analysing the situation.
The idea behind this painting is that this idea can be explained without the painting itself. The point is that after the story the person (maybe even with tediousness) says: yes, that’s exactly how I imagined it. Or: clearly, I didn’t see anything new here, the description was enough for me.
It's funny. The idea of a painting without a painting is interesting.
🔹 Second picture. Home button.
About family, about how we go to work to earn a living, and they are waiting for us at home. About the contact of meeting two people. Sometimes doubts arise and it is not entirely clear what the waiting person is experiencing, just like the one who comes home.
🔹 Third picture. Stream of fish.
Among a large flow of people, we see our loved ones differently. They are completely different in our perception from the others. It’s interesting that those others are in their close circle and we treat the others the same way for them. There is no hard boundary, we are constantly in contact with everyone and perceptions change. The boundary of intimacy is moving.
