Author Archives: jolanta

My latest projects are called Spirit Flow and Floral Explosion Series, which study the idea of the inspiration in relation to our organic growth as human beings. My inspiration comes from the Greek word, “Theopneustos,” which means God-breathed. I describe this creative process as an effortless finding instead of a conflicted rational proposal. The Floral […]

Decadence and relevance. It’s about conflicts and contradictions. Duality intrigues me, surprises me, amuses me, and even disgusts me. But then I realize that everything has a dual nature. Even electrons, the particles at micro level, exhibit properties of particles and waves. Art, for me, is anything that attracts my attention, holds it, and engulfs […]

It’s good to see that the fashion industry isn’t just full of money-driven, well-dressed people. The Collezione Maramotti Museum is an example of how the fashion industry can interact with the art world, and give back to the community. Set in the outskirts of Reggio Emilia (kind of the middle of nowhere, yet the heart […]

My life and work are interwoven; I travel like a speck of dust, drawing upon the experience of shifting spaces, oceans, and the sheltering sky. I have called many cities home, but the Home remains a Foreign Place, whose culture, language, and poetry are central to my identity. Zarina Hashmi My life and work are […]

Broadly speaking my works address the classic themes of survival and the endless narratives of human struggle, often oscillating between the playful codes of pop and the high seriousness of agitprop. The city of Mumbai, wherein the enterprise of daily existence is pushed to the extreme, acts as artistic catalyst, and continually percolates my practice. […]

My sustained interest in water compels me to create visual perceptions of water and water ecology. I cut, fold, stretch, and tie paper, Mylar, tape, and plastic to express ecological issues ranging from the dramatic ecosystem breakdown in the Great Lakes, to the modest, almost overlooked ecological problems of Papillion Creek in Eastern Nebraska. In […]

Photographs produced by someone with a truly trained and experienced eye are a rare find these days, especially when you look at the abundance of photography in galleries today. There is so much accessibility to digitalization, auto focus, and Photoshopping that just about anyone has a shot at getting at least one great photo now […]

In my Cinemage project, which refers to images from cinema, and homage to cinema, I show these still photo images through old-fashioned slide projections. At times, with music improvised by solo or duo guitarists, or without music, silent. Imagine a slide show that a family used to enjoy in their living room back in the […]

The main body of my work is a number of human dolls that aim to raise questions about the numerous images of the objectified and idealized body that we see in the mass media. The doll images are composites, with the dolls’ limb-joints painstakingly, digitally, superimposed onto the human subjects to create disturbing images. Often […]

I produce my self-portraits to expose myself, but reveal nothing. The work is untitled and so, exists as a subjective art form. Laced with emotional angst. I live—within them, in a trance. Interrupted, only by divine intuition. Familiar surroundings warped to a dream like state representing the unknown. The perception of the viewer is not […]