The Future is Ahead Painting

Rossitza Todorova "The Future is Ahead" Acrylic, silver leaf on linen, mounted on panel 2021, 18” x 18” x 1” Memory of a landscape In this series, Rossitza Todorova explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future. The landscape reflects our memories by helping us recall and associate a place with history. It captures our present by allowing us to let go and be in the moment. And shows us our future, metaphorically, and literally as it reveals the journey ahead. In the words of Ken Taylor, "one of our deepest needs is for a scene of identity and belonging, and a common denominator in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. Landscape, therefore, is not simply what we see, but a way of seeing: we see it when our eyes but interpret it with our mind and ascribe value to landscape for intangible - spiritual - reasons. Landscape can, therefore, be seen as a cultural construct in which our sense of place and memories inhere." In this exhibition, Todorova depicts the Great Basin's landscape inspired by walks around Reno, hiking in Tahoe, and her recent residency at Playa Summer Lake in Southern Oregon. The artwork is interrupted by scrolling lines that exist in the space between the viewer and the vista beyond. The forms are visual metaphors for what we bring as we view the desert. They are the reflections of ourselves that we place on the landscape. As Henri Frédéric Amiel eloquently said, "Any landscape is a condition of the spirit."

Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18 W x 18 H x 1 D in

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