The second picture of the diptych (so called Wanderings) was composed as a photo album full with the photos taken in different trips (imaginary, virtual, and real ones).
The main features of my creative process is that sometimes it grabbed me totally, and existing on my own wave creates a chaos in the surroundings. And being stopped by a sudden thought I could find myself drawing with a spoon in my hand, the food was not salted at all, and the salt pot was found in the fridge. The situations was comic, sometimes inconvenient, sometimes dangerous.
Several years ago, at the time of my personal crisis, I came back to reading the stories of Ray Bradbury I liked so much in my childhood. For a while, I had to abstract myself from complicated family issues and awful choice between the drawing and family. But I completely forgot how sore his stories could be.
The story about the astronaut’s son, who was dreaming about the space. But the father did all he could to shut his son off from that idea.
At one of his stays at home, the father took the promise from the son never to become an astronaut. Because it is endless anguish. When he is in the space, he’s homesick strongly missing his son and wife. And when he is with them, he’s missing the stars same strongly.
It leaves a hard and bitter aftertaste. Got abstracted, have to say.
But it caused an occurence of the picture in the upper part of Wanderings.
Both pictures are combined by their centered compositions, the attention is focused on the bigger figure, as if it were the strongest memory, then the figures are gradually getting smaller and spreading from the center.
The pictures have similar background and are placed in the space in similar way. There are small pieces of polished glass used on both of them and framed with white colour. The central memories are painted on three layers of glass to make an accent on the depth of the picture and emphasize the wish to grab the attention to the center.
The first Picture Home (which I intended to make more static) has got the equal proportions of the picture, and some minor contrast in sizes, and the second picture, on the contrary, was intended as a dynamic one, having bigger difference in sizes and shapes of various images and memories.
In the lower left corner of the second picture (Wanderings) there’s an olive tree. It was pictured as an apple tree, not a realistic to underline the feeling called being homesick, deeply missing your home.
At the left side of the picture Home, there’s a midseason, when the trees are without leaves, and the mountains could be seen through their naked branches as a symbol of wanderings.
The creation of the diptych represents a permanent conflict between the strong desire for Wanderings and wish to come back Home. It is an attempt to make up my mind to the thought that any picture of the diptych is sad and uncompleted without another.
The diptych`s idea occurred years ago, but it was realized only during the lock–down time, and became an actual the way as ii could be never before.
By the way, this year we got endless apples in the garden 😉