Artwork description:

This piece emerged as an inner impulse - a need to carve onto the surface something that existed within me as a dense, silent knowing. Linocut, with its sharp and tactile nature, became the perfect medium - allowing me to cut through matter in the same way the psyche reveals layers of the unconscious. Each cut, each line, is a mark left by hands moved by something deeper than thought - something instinctual, ancient.

I chose the image of birch trees because they have always been my companions - archetypal figures of the Mother, guardians of memory, and keepers of the bond with the land I come from. But in this work, the birches are not just trees. They are living beings with eyes. These are the eyes of the ancestors, the eyes of the unconscious, the eyes of the inner witness. These images came to me in dreams, in meditative states. I felt that the forest was watching. It was not lifeless - it was filled with memory. Its gaze was not frightening, but enveloping and deeply knowing.

The yellow triangle is a portal. It is a symbol of transformation, of ascension, of the awakening of the inner light - solar, warm, activating. One can enter this portal only by seeing not with the eyes, but with the body and intuition.

This work was my attempt to weave together the bodily, the archetypal, and the spiritual. I carved it because I could not express the inner necessity any other way. It was not a decision - it was the cutting through of something profoundly essential.

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Offset

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