O a R r L d A n N a D s O Print

Below are the quotes from the sources of inspiration to create this picture.: # "Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, io non credea Tornare ancor per uso a contemplarvi Sul paterno giardino scintillanti, E ragionar con voi dalle finestre Di questo albergo ove abitai fanciullo, E delle gioie mie vidi la fine.(...)" Giacomo Leopardi "Le ricordanze" (1829) "Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa" ("Sandra" 1965 film) diretto da Luchino Visconti; # "The cold breeze of the present brushed her face with its little breath of fear. Braced and strung up by the present moment she was also strangely afraid, as if whenever the gulf of time gaped and let a second through some unknown danger might come with it. The whole of her darkened and settled, as when some foil whose addition makes the round and solidity of a surface is added to it, and the shallow becomes deep and the near distant; and all is contained as water is contained by the sides of a well. So she was now darkened, stilled, and become, with the addition of this Orlando, what is called, rightly or wrongly, a single self, a real self. And she fell silent. For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disseverment, eand are trying to communicate, but when communication is established they fall silent." "Orlando: A Biography" (1928) by Virginia Woolf; # "Dove andavo? Questo `e altro discorso; non lo sapevo certo; fuggivo. Ma dimostrerebbe di mal conoscere il cuore umano, chi creda che non tornassi." "Racconto d'autunno" Adelphi, Milano (1947) da Tommaso Landolfi; # "If I talk about time it`s because it doesn`t exist If I talk about a place it`s because it has disappeared If I talk about time it`s because it doesn`t exist anymore the sensation I have of existence Is not yet a "me" It`s an un-reflected sensation it`s born within me, but without "me" Against you I`ll fling myself and vanquish and unyielding Oh death... Soir, dit il. Soir, dit elle. Soir, disent ils..." "Dans le noir du temps" (2002) de Jean-Luc Godard; # "(There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out." "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1967) by Arthur C. Clarke Two years ago I lost a loved one - my Mother - Olena Chekan. She was the legendary actress and well-known journalist. She died of cancer. A few days ago I had a dream: I found a very old and falling apart book of poems by Nikolay Gumilyov on top of a mountain (my Mother was very fond of his poetry). I woke up, I remembered the words of Li Bai about moments of life and eternity: What we leave behind, when we leave this Earth? Our loved ones who are not with us, but they are in our hearts and minds even when we do not think and do not feel their invisible presence... Propertius said: "Aetas prima canat veneras, extrema tumultus"... I would like the viewers to think about it. I chose the material and style for this work because a loved one gave me a set of Derwent pastel pencils which she brought for me from London. I used my own gold-screen printing art technique in my pastel, marker and pencil drawings.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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