Land scape
Anna Baranska
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
The rejection of physicality or the purely visual approach to painting enables everyone to perceive and experience a work in their own way. When a space is not clearly defined, our brain starts searching for a place or event we took part in and tries to adjust it to the existing situation. For some viewers the same blurred landscape will be a nice recollection of a successful trip, whereas for others it will be an unpleasant experience of a tragedy they may have witnessed. While creating the works, I try to reconstruct certain places, which have already been distorted by the imperfect human memory as well as the omnipresent emotional theme. What is more, I deliberately eliminate certain details, which might otherwise deprive a work of its universal meaning. Memory is crucial in the process of creating the paintings, but it is the emotional memory that focuses on the situation rather than the memory of a place itself. We often find ourselves in an extraordinary, stressful or dangerous situation and we find it impossible to remember any details; what remains is a general overview of the place where we were. However, even after many years we are able to describe the feelings we experienced at that time, ranging from fear to fascination.