Rooster - Sometimes I Cry Painting

Rooster Collection / Rooster - Sometimes I cry / 2023 "Happiness is not a smiling face!" Anže Gallus Petelin's art project - conceived as a lifetime project (from 2022 to 2082) I have had a rooster (petelin) inside me since birth. My surname is Petelin. Until I was 40, I avoided this motif. I did not feel it. I didn't see enough originality in it. So one day, through a large series of paintings entitled Human, Life and Meadows, I found myself standing in front of a blank canvas. It seemed that the Human - the painter - had left LIFE and was lying on a mown summer MEADOW. Silence. Whiteness. Emptiness. And so one cold night - I heard a rooster crowing in the distance. I picked up my paintbrush and painted the first one. Painted the second. Passion was awakened. The passion that the rooster and the Rooster (Petelin) carry within them. The rooster is a symbol of the sun, of light. A new beginning. It is rebirth. Its song awakens the morning - awakens passion. And so the PETELIN project was born, conceived as a lifetime project; from 2022 to 2082. Each rooster in the PETELIN collection is like a unique diary of a painter, expressed in a visual language. It is an outpouring of the soul, a record of emotions, an interplay of laughter and tears, admiration and fear, the wind of late autumn and the sun of spring.