Heavy Silk Robe Painting

Heavy Silk Robe (Fabric Memories series No.3) As a child, I lived with my parents and their entire family many thousands of kilometers from my current home. I, like probably many others, don't remember the first five or six years of my life. But I have another good reason for this. A civil war began in our country, terrible things were happening around. I remember everything that happened from our escape from war very well. But everything before it is just bright fragmentary moments. Like slides from another life. This project is a reflection of my blurry memories of a forgotten childhood, it's about my longing for that lost childhood and forever lost life in a distant country, now alien and forgotten. It's my attempt to reconstruct my memories again. This project symbolizes our heritage, which always stays with us wherever we go. This painting is another attempt to collect shards of memories into something whole. I remember how we hiked in the mountains once together with my parents. Mountings were everywhere around us there. And it happened that we stumbled into a small mountain village. We were greeted by the elders and invited inside the house to drink tea and eat. Everyone in the village was dressed in long colorful robes. The headman was dressed in a thick silk robe. I don't remember his colors, only that the robe was bright and the headman's beard was white and long. I was very surprised that everyone was sitting on the floor and eating with their hands. But I was given a fork. And everyone was smiling. When I think about it well, I believe that most of these memories are not my own, but told by my parents. And it's pretty common, children loose most of their memories but when the people around constantly remind them about it, some memories remain. But due to the fact that we fled the war and because of all the problems after, my parents had no time to tell and remind me everything that happened, perhaps this is the reason for the memory failure. But whatever it was, I will assume that the headman was dressed in just such a robe, exactly like in this painting. Acrylic on a linen canvas. Coated with archival quality protective satin varnish. Mounted on a stretcher frame. Sides are painted. Size is 110 H x 65 W cm.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.6 W x 43.3 H x 0.8 D in

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