Peripheral ARTeries
Alisa Jakobi
"Ohrid Lake" Struga, Macedonia. oil on canvas.40x50 cm. 2015
landscape onto canvas. And later, when the whole composition is ready, I come back into the symbols and see the answer. This is almost like encryption, like when you decipher your dreams, you can decipher your own mind in the same way. Just don't be afraid to open it to yourself. As you have stated once, one of the ideas behind your Emotional Landscape project is the reconciliation of humans with nature: in this sense, your works are intrinsically connected with the chance of creating a deep interaction
with your viewers, urging them to follow your process and pushing them to not play as a passive audience. Many contemporary artists, as the landscape photographers as the Edward Burtynsky and Michael Light have some form of political message in their works. Do you consider that your pieces are in a certain sense "political"or do you seek to maintain a neutral approach? By the way, although I'm aware that this might sound a bit naÄźf, I have to admit that I'm sort of convinced that Art -especially nowadays- could play an effective role in