This is my Self-portraits Series.
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I was talking with my mom and making some abstract sketch with The Petal and The Molecule. In a few minutes, I found, that I had done the portrait. So I named it Self portrait: The Abstract Adult.
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I remembered the theory of 3 person's roles by Eric Bern: Adult, Child, and Parent. So I made 3 Self-portraits

Self-portraits

I was inspired by Inktober - art festival in social medias. I am feeling that i am a kid who studying how to write her first words and phrases. I feel magic relationship with ink as a media. In this album you can find abstract landscapes, abstractions with lines. I work through themes of nature, weather, elements with my anxiety and finding stabilization and support in all this simple lines.

Ink on paper

In the project “Ornaments” I research colours and ornaments. How the colour of the background influences the colour of the ornament. How they are connected to each other, in what feelings a viewer can be involved by colours. Also, an ornament is a traditional national art in each country. I am trying to be closer to Ukraine through my paintings.

Ornaments

In the series "Identity" I raise the issue of national identity, the personal position in modern Ukraine. I wonder what my place in this relationship with my country and what are happening in it. Currently, the series includes four paintings. I want to encourage viewers to ask themselves "uncomfortable" questions about the choice of their identity within Ukrainian society.

Identity

Hommage is defined as something expressive done in honor of a person using elements of their style. So I painted these artworks to express my respect for the artists that I like.

Hommages

The characters:
August Petal of the Sunflower (Petal) - passive female expectation,
Molecule - a male, who is in finding process
Canvas - time
Colors, Shapes - others

Art Plays

Posters

Feelings and emotions after traveling to Iceland

Iceland

Feelings and emotions after travelling to Madagascar

Madagascar

Reflecting my feelings and states during quarantine, I`ve chosen colors, lines and points. Because these are the simplest symbols of the transmission of the inner through the outer.


Covid art

The series "Nautical Abstractions" was painted during the year. The first was the picture "Circle", which is the personification of space and sea depths at the same time. I imagined that somewhere these two spaces intersect and depicted him.
I dived. Where will the thought lead in depth? Feeling in depth? Where and what does this depth look like when I travel with my own unconscious?

Through the path of meditation and contemplation in myself, I felt a touch of the sea world and its images. Thus arose the following paintings: "Fishes", "Corals", "Seahorse", "Jellyfish", "Small Fishes", "Red Carp". The leading color that unites all the paintings is a dark purple, dark blue background, as the color of the imagination and the unconscious.

Katya Kononenko