Cubus #1 - Manifest Installation

The title of this artwork is Cubus #1 - Manifest. As the name says, this was the first work of this type that I made. I needed to move on of the previous period that lasted 7 years, when i painted figurative and realistic, making vast series of portraits in digital technique. I had this task, that I can only use few elements to make this collage painting, and spent a week or more just moving around the canvas attaching and detaching shapes. I juxtaposed black plexiglass and green foil foam that indicated cubical shape in some perspective and added a magnifying glass as the touch of life. Then I knew that the work is done. I stood in front of the canvas like a monkey in front of the Monolith in Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey and felt that it was not me that made the painting but that the artwork has travelled trough time and found me.