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In March 2020 I have started a visual journal, drawing thoughts and feelings in relation to living closer to nature, isolation, my understanding of this strange world as well as to my readings about ecology and permaculture. 
“Maia Ștefana Oprea combines this unique artistic practice with a bespoke lifestyle, cultivating sustainably and eco the art of living and creating.” (Ana Daniela Sultana, “The eco art of living and creating”, 2020)

In NESTLED drawing I was inspired by the hugelkultur pile made by Samir and in which we planted together beans, sunflower and pumpkins, having a common vision on how these plants will look in August, sheltering one another.
"Just as plants need us to be attracted by their flowers so that they grow and reproduce, couldn't space also depend on us ?  We believe that we have conquered it with our houses, roads and cities, but what if we are the ones who were unwillingly subordinated to space, so that the elegant design can propose infinitely through the dreams of finite beings? What if we aren't  the ones moving through space, but space is moving through us, woven on my our minds loom? And if all these are true, then where is this space where we lie down and dream ? A tank in nonspace? „(Nicole Krauss - The Dark Forest, page 55)
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NESTLED Drawing

Maia S Oprea

Romania

Drawing, Conte on Paper

Size: 13.4 W x 12.2 H x 0.2 D in

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In March 2020 I have started a visual journal, drawing thoughts and feelings in relation to living closer to nature, isolation, my understanding of this strange world as well as to my readings about ecology and permaculture. “Maia Ștefana Oprea combines this unique artistic practice with a bespoke lifestyle, cultivating sustainably and eco the art of living and creating.” (Ana Daniela Sultana, “The eco art of living and creating”, 2020) In NESTLED drawing I was inspired by the hugelkultur pile made by Samir and in which we planted together beans, sunflower and pumpkins, having a common vision on how these plants will look in August, sheltering one another. "Just as plants need us to be attracted by their flowers so that they grow and reproduce, couldn't space also depend on us ? We believe that we have conquered it with our houses, roads and cities, but what if we are the ones who were unwillingly subordinated to space, so that the elegant design can propose infinitely through the dreams of finite beings? What if we aren't the ones moving through space, but space is moving through us, woven on my our minds loom? And if all these are true, then where is this space where we lie down and dream ? A tank in nonspace? „(Nicole Krauss - The Dark Forest, page 55)

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Drawing:Conte on Paper

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Size:13.4 W x 12.2 H x 0.2 D in

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Painting is located in the center of my artistic interests, and through it I investigate concepts of time, memory, absence, waste, decay, violence, identity, subjectivity and vulnerability The purpose behind my latest artwork (painting-graphics, collage, assemblage) is to explore the expressive properties of paint and other materials through physical and poetic processes, following the development of a personal dialogue in between thoughts and colors, emotions and memories, lines and gestures, hesitations and decisions. Desiring to pull the viewer from representation, I like to draw attention to the painting process and to many painterly 'imperfections', which can be clearly visible in the works. My paintings are often built up in layers, during long periods of time, through a process of recording and analysing natural forms, shapes and objects which I make myself, or my own manipulated photographs. These visual sources often resonate with my old drawings and sketches, which are in turn incorporated in the future paintings. The brushwork experiments in the studio and the repetitive structural forms found in my environment become a language of my work. If I were to synthesize in a sole phrase what characterises my interventions, steps, installations and artworks of the media I have experimented so far (photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture), I would say that they are all somewhat self-referential. Self-referential in the sense that my work doesn't demonstrate nor does it present the functioning of structures belonging to the territory of the real. But rather it embraces these structures, interrogates them, in the pursue of a visual expression where reality and imaginary, conscience and unconscious, life and death stop being felt as incompatible. www.maiaoprea.ro/en http://maiastefanaoprea.wordpress.com

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