MIXED TECHNIQUE - PENCIL DRAWING COMBINED WITH HANDMADE PICKED AND PREPARED RASPBERRY, BLUEBERRY AND WALLNUT INK ALONG WITH BROWN PIGMENTS MADE OF CLAY

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15X15CM

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Looking at this piece, I can´t help but think of my latest inspirations, czech artist and performer Miloš Šejn and his performance "Falling Sun"(1983, Zebín).

The performative action Šejn did was inspired by the traditions of the summer solstice festivities, where back then local people would throw burning wheels down the valley during that night.

On the top of the mountain, he would take a burning torch and start to spin it - facing the setting sun and turning his back on the moon. To me his gesture of creating a lighting circle on the top of the mountain represents form of a call -
"I am here, I am the centre now, I express." - as if he would be in a direct dialogue with the setting sun.

I remained touched by this since long time, therefore it felt right to re-shape this piece into a new version, using specifically summer fruit based materials and clay pigments.