around 10:00 (2024) Painting by Olena Koliesnik

This artwork is part of the series "Attack".

Changes in the society where the hero of the painting lives are reflected in the abstraction of the background with red, golden, red, ocher, turquoise, earthy colors. The circle is filled with spots that resemble the spiral of a snail, a vortex of inner experiences and emotions. The hero's silhouette is red, blurred, in motion, and the leg continues like a needle. A thin line from his leg is the hero's shadow, which disappears into the outside world behind a bubble in the form of a spot. There is a struggle with the shadow, from which you are only injured.

The image of the circle is multifaceted in the project "Solomon's Paradox". The bubble is a metaphor for one person's worldview limited by beliefs, experience, and heredity. Gray-blue spots of a spiral in a circle indicate excitement, clouding of the mind from emotions. The bubble is deformed by the sharp attacks of the personality on changes in the environment. Outside her imagination, the world is happening, there is life that provokes changes, but the hero cannot accept the context in which he lives.

Instead of being aware of the changes, the individual in the circle resists. Attacks, defending his point of view, rejecting the possibility of change. Having collected all 6 pictures together, the hero will move clockwise. A circle within a circle, so to speak. The intensity of the hero's attacks, as a reaction to changes, is reduced by the loss of energy from the senselessness of actions. The stretching of its inner bubble towards the end of the rotation is less noticeable. In these pictures, I reflect on the feasibility of resistance to external changes. Suffering and pain are as much a hero's choice as prosperity and happiness. As long as this choice is not noticed, the attack continues.

I create dark colors like the impressionists without using black paint. It is a mixture of all the colors you see in the picture. But the expressionist way of working is fast, chaotic movements driven by emotions. In my life and in painting, I am the embodiment of opposites that come together. This adds mystery to the pictures, interesting shapes that decorate the modern interior. Through the "Attack" series of artworks, the owners of the house boldly broadcast their individuality. Such drawings encourage dialogues with friends and relatives, intellectual discussions about their meaning.

"Solomon's Paradox" is the general name of one story in three acts - a cycle of paintings. The series of artworks are called "Escape", "Attack", "Stupor". Paintings of the brain's automatic “fight-run-freeze” emergency responses that have infiltrated everyday life, mine and maybe yours... I was inspired to research from my condition at the beginning of the war, the influence of automatic responses on everyday things was growing day after day. This is my way of turning the everyday threat of missile fire into a field of study. I wanted to change my life based on the automaticity that was activated in the brain due to background anxiety. The paintings from the project "Solomon's Paradox" were created in the process of psychoanalysis and are intended to remind that every person, regardless of external circumstances, is the creator of his own path.

Signature, certificate of Authenticity is included Unframed

The artwork is on 100 % cotton Arches, France archival quality 300 g/ m² watercolour paper, using the world`s finest watercolour paints.

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