Original artwork description:

It’s about the emigration process and inner feelings, connected with it, about changes in a person’s life. Here, I depicted a state when a person was taken from one environment and moved to another, new place, new land, new language, traditions, and mentality. This state can be described as hanging in the air, stuck in nowhere, somewhere between, not there any more, but not totally here. Changes never ask when it’s better to come in; they may not even knock. Because when people, we, will have a choice, almost for sure they would not choose changes. It might be stressful, painful, why should I choose it? So, here’s a state, when a person might feel himself/herself as a tree, taken from it familiar environment and dislocated to a new one. And this person haven’t settled in yet, haven’t found his/her place here. It often seems, feels like starting from scratch, from the very beginning. The state of uncertainty, when I, you can’t predict what will happen tomorrow, when the unknown is closer, than ever. And the main question in all this, that a person can ask himself, is: how do I feel myself in this period of changes? Am I suffering, hiding, not accepting new or maybe I am able to find the strength inside to be more open minded, flexible, trying to let internal changes happen with me? Moreover, another one good question is – who am I? Not only in a context of nationality, home country, language, traditions, but without all of that, or almost without everything, that was so familiar, that we used to know, that was the only view, the only picture of the world we knew. Can I find myself beyond all this, can I discover something new in me? Or even maybe – can I surprise myself? In a good way, I mean. These issues are much deeper than just emigration, here are existential questions, related to the broadening one’s worldview. Of course, I do not mean it’s easy – to adapt, to change. And I also don’t talk about losing yourself, myself in a new culture. But something new can be born, I guess. Obviously, the answers to these questions will be different for each person.

Materials used:

Acrylics , varnish

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