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Recent works by Maria Gabankova
Surprised by Collage - 2020 & 2021
Surprised by Collage
Welcome to my first on-line exhibition presenting recent experiments in the medium of collage I worked on during 2020-2021.
I have always loved collage for its playful and unpredictable creative process, full of surprises, tensions
and also joyful discoveries of fresh ways of seeing and of spiritual reflection.
In this series most of the ideas start intuitively without planning and often are left unfinished, but continue
to speak in silence.
The underlying dark tones of the current pandemic inform these images where the surreal reality and strangeness anticipate and embrace a promise
of Hope and Light.
Assembled Restricted Variations
When the Moon nests softly
in bare winter branches
the darkest charcoal black
tears at the cobwebs of change,
devouring time.
My eyes hunt through chaos of
colors mixed on the palette,
where swallowed in footprints
of brushes and knife scratches
a dream has frozen.
Under the ice small fish tremble,
oscillate between life and death
amidst suggestions of figures,faces,shadows
a landscape from Nowhere to Somewhere,
yet within reach...
Under the moment’s insistence
instead of brushes my hand clutches the scissors.
I cut shapes and separate time
from fragments left over
to ferment as new possibilities.
Collages
64 images altogether
Mini Installation
March 22, 2021
March 29, 2021