Art & Culture
ARTIST AT WORK
No. 32: Grażyna Wikierska, Biological Robot 1, acrylic on canvas, 127 cm x 101cm, £600
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rt, for me, is a portal to consciousness, to freedom. It is a journey to healing our suppressed and unrecognised emotions. I like to be a wanderer, an explorer, so I do not identify with any medium – no gates are closed. Three years ago, I was disturbed by the feeling that I must be productive, that I must achieve success – it was so far from my soul! I let go and I started to feel light; I listened to that inner voice. It has always been my strong need to return to this freshness in creation, to play – childlike – where you let your heart speak. When creating, I like this meditative state – I am at home. I share here ‘Biological Robot 1’ painted in 2019. I felt this as a breakthrough of my own limits. I was so happy. This painting is important to me – it’s like a captured state of mind. I always had this need for line work (inner work) which represents connection. A metaphor furthered by using thread. In most of my paintings I use an abundance of bright colours, lines, and shapes. It’s organic and intuitive. Art has a shamanic role for me as a type of sacred activism, to raise awareness. grazynawikierska.com grazyna.wikierska
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