Abstraction with candles / 7

my experimental interpretation of Lillian Bassman

ironically, studying her work, I wanted to return to color

Bassman's restrained black-and-white aesthetic seems to me to be largely a product of the environment and the era in which she created, and I tried to imagine how this language could transform if she opened Photoshop and began "twisting curves"

in this series, the characters are candles in dresses

the plasticity of bodies that Lillian felt so subtly: necks, arms, curves - for me echoes the shape of church candles: graceful, elongated, sacred

at the same time, I thought a lot about the artist's inner freedom, her experience of taking a break from work largely rhymes with my own decision to abandon compromises in favor of honesty in her work

I've been thinking a lot about the creative energy of women: women making art, not war, improve the world, give life, decorate it

there is a lot of aggression in this color scheme, partly because of the reflections above, partly because of some inner feelings

this is the new me, who does not hide aggression, anger, but is inspired by it