Semena
Seeds
2012-2017
predstavitev / introduction
Okrogla platna s podobami posameznih semen, izvora življenja, izzovejo misel o reprodukciji in nadaljevanju vrste ter spregovorijo zgodbo o prepletenosti mikrokozmosa in makrokozmosa, morskih globin in vesolja, življenja in smrti. Slike se slogovno navezujejo na botanične risbe in na estetski fotorealizem fotografa Roba Kesselerja, ki je z mikroskopsko povečavo in barvno obdelavo zabrisal mejo med dokumentarno in umetniško fotografijo. Ob vsaki sliki je naveden latinski izraz semena in morske živali, ki se ji morfološko ali barvno približa.
Round canvases bearing images of individual seeds — origins of life — open a meditation on reproduction and the continuation of species, telling a story of the entanglement of microcosm and macrocosm, deep sea and outer space, life and death. Stylistically the paintings draw on botanical drawing and on the aesthetic photorealism of Rob Kesseler, whose microscopic magnification and colour processing blurred the line between documentary and artistic photography. Each work is accompanied by the Latin name of the seed and of the marine creature it approaches morphologically or chromatically.