This is the first residency in June 2022 with six more artists where I can do nothing, I just go deep into the local Bukovina culture and enjoy thinking, walking around the beautiful nature, reading, and sharing thoughts with others. I had much time during these two weeks to think about my topic – Heterotopia, after Michel Foucault, about ‘the other place’. Vyzhnitsa and this residency are perfect places to get a little rest from the sirens, the big city, and the war.
Because of this opportunity, I did a very tiny landart public project To scatter stones.
There is a river Cheremosh and I just love the huge field of stones on its banks. I just remembered how I drew on the stones in Crimea which is now occupied by Russia, on the seashore in 2011 and 2012. Here, the landscape reminded me of that and I just painted short quotes and drawings, I was thinking about. Red, black and white.
This pain will not go away as long as the war continues
The forest will mot cry for us
Anyone who thinks he is better than others should go to the cemetery. There he will understand what life really is. Just a handful of land.
Stones that slow down time
Stones-mycelium
look at me: I’m a cloud. My face is only a dream to you
“Silence is so accurate”
To listen.
To scattare stones-thoughts, leave them to the river
