Natasha Painting

Part of the series of portraits in which I ponder eternal philosophical questions: Why do I exist? Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? What is consciousness? What is the purpose of everything? What is the meaning of life? I contemplate these questions while sequentially repeating brush strokes with the energy of four elements (earth, water, air, fire) which in symbolical colours represent the material and draw attention to immaterial (being) - the eternal presence or the fifth element which reveals itself as white surface of the canvas visible between and trough every brush stroke. These paintings are portraits of my friends (women who I identify with and who identify with me on some level) trough which I work with issues of identification. To be able to approach the answers to eternal questions I must strip layers of (false) identities and all external until I am left only with my true essence which exist without body, emotions and mind.