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Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
Limited edition archival pigment photographs 20 x 20 cm [8x8 in], printed on the handmade Japanese paper.
The images were created as part of “Partly Cloudy” the IZOLYATSIA non-governmental arts foundation’s project in Ukraine, 2011 - 2012
(the Artist-in-Residency Program curated by Boris Mikhailov.)
This project united in Donetsk eight international photographers, selected after an open-call application, for a month long residency (Richard Ansett, Nuno Barroso, Marina Black, Marco Citron, Homer (Sasha Kurmaz), Flavia Junqueira, Natasha Pavlovskaya, Alexander Strinadko).
Under the curatorial guidance of Boris Mikhailov, the photographers were invited to embark on a creative journey, to retrace and reexamine the city’s aesthetic field, giving it their own qualification, to shoot a series of photographs reflecting their vision of the year’s theme: Partly Cloudy.
Partly Cloudy is a phrase we frequently hear on weather forecast but somehow we have become numb to its ambiguous meaning.
Does it not stand for so much more than just a weather prognosis? What does this combination of words actually mean? Do we need sunglasses to go outside? Do we need an umbrella? What changes are brought to our city with different light? How does the city change the weather? How do people change when everything around them is shifting? Are there clouds in their souls? How do you see post-industrial Donetsk?
The city is surely in a state of transition – there are days when the sun can't get through the black smoke but then there are others when it shines brightly making the smoggy clouds fade away into obscurity.
The VERSTS (Версты) series is a project inspired by an anthology of poems of the same name written by the Russian poet, Marina Tsvetaeva. I altered some of the images based on traditional Russian and Soviet iconography just enough that the observer couldn't tell they were accurate. I used stained film, blurred exposures, cutting and collaging processes, and handwritten text to reimagine photos of my origin and people who played a vital part in my life.
How are the person's face and environment constructed to convey a feeling of 'how things were and are now'? Can these photos become more authentic than one's personal encounter with a place?
*note: a verst is a Russian measure of length, about 0.66 mile or 1.1 km)
M.Tsvetaeva
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To B. Pasternak
Dis-tances: miles, versts*…
They dis-pelled us until we dis-persed,
So we would act as we were told
In two corners of the world.
Dis-tances: versts, spaces…
They dislocated us, they displaced us,
They disjoined us, crucified on display,
And observed there, to their dismay,
How our tendons joined, our ideas broadened…
Without discord, - just in disorder,
Distorted….
Disconnected by a wall and a dike.
They disbanded us like
Eagles-conspirators: versts, spaces…
Not disunited, - they disengaged us.
Across the slums of the globe’s range
Like orphans, we’re disarranged.
For how many Marches, have our hearts
Been cut like a deck of cards?!
*note: a verst is a Russian measure of length, about 0.66 mile or 1.1 km)