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TARKOVSKY TRIPTYCH
Inside Zone Art Residency Project
Borsec, Romania, May 2016
ONE: A Different Kind of Tarkovsky
This work is honoring Russian film director
Andrei Tarkovsky, whose personality I
always felt to be very close to mine and to
my inner vibrations. When I started working
on this triptych I was thinking of
Tarkovskys torment, which could take on a
different symbolic meaning in my painting.
This man wanted to help us get on a mystic
path, and he did so through his movie, The
Stalker. I noticed that in the final version of
my painting his suffering no longer looks
like that of someone tortured by existential
anxiety, but like that of a self-assured man
walking on a safe road he himself had built,
and on which he left his significant and
eloquent footsteps. I think one needs time
and a lot of patience to read and decipher the
whole painting. The circle I placed in the
middle keeps the visual and conceptual
balance; the blue hand in the lower left-hand
corner symbolizes his sheer goodness; an
orange robot stands very close to the central
circle. The colors sort of swirl around, but
when one gets closer one notices that they
are meant to form a circle which opens up in
an almost magic way. Other abstractions I
used in this painting are connected squares
which are meant to impart a sense of
strength, since a square does not bulge. In
the lower section I painted a fantastic, black
stalker; further up I drew a small crow to
watch over the Russian director until his
THREE: Reunion
The third painting brings the two heroes
back into each others arms. Once they find
each other they will never separate. I still
used abstract elements, but I turned
Tarkovskys arm into Penelopes flower
Following the completion of these three works, the first ones to be conceived as a coherent
series, I plan on painting similar sets focused on connecting people, both fictitious and real. I will
do my best to finish all of these so that they look pristine and amazing, like perfectly polished
objects just out of a gift box. In the future I would like to adopt a variety of other techniques, for
instance, collage using small metal and textile objects, stickers, little toys, and so on. I am sure
all of these will find a place in my future work.