By Aliaksandr Biruk
Art and culture can answer, of course, many questions of human existence. From preserving memory to uniting people of different views in the space of aesthetics. It serves as a method of cognizing oneself and the other. It unites and creates reasons for discussion. Art is present in every sphere of human life. Perhaps we can also say that art shows and indicates that a human being was present here. In this sense, supporting culture, developing culture, and inspiring people to explore and experience life creatively is a way to preserve humanity and increase its humanness.
I love this narrative because, to me, it’s like it brings a lot of symbols and emotions and states of mind together. It’s like Adam looking out into the cold world from his paradise or Buddha looking out into the cruel world from his garden. It’s also being in your “garden of the soul.” There is also a certain element of concealment in it, as if a person hides, closes himself off, disappears. Or he boldly looks outward, outwardly, but has not yet come out of his “thicket”. Or the character is looking into someone else’s “garden”, trying to look beyond the fence to establish a connection and understanding. In either case, there is a problem of separation or separation from the outside, but at the same time, there is also a kind of attentiveness to it, interest, and fear. For me, the important motif here is also nature and the character’s immersion in it. Or maybe it is nature itself looking out from behind the branches and leaves, and this ghostly bluish face is its soul. Color guides the imagery and associative chain and creates the poetic mood I need.
