The situation we found ourselves in 2020 was a time of trial that we faced in various ways. In my case, this difficult period resulted in a strong longing for open space and contact with nature. The seclusion was a time of reflection and an opportunity to look anew into my negatives. I created handmade cyanotype collages without using a camera through the effect of daylight on light-sensitive paper.
Blue Moon Garden series has become a land where imagination, longing and experience met. Painting, cutting my negatives, spilled water and botanical are like the words of a novel in which the narrative develops slowly. Every leaf, blade of grass seems screamed: look how beautiful I am, how important!
In astrology Blue Moon means very rare second full moon in a month. It symbolises the moment of summing up and materialising what has developed over the past.
Blue also embodies melancholy because we become more and more lonely, detached from reality which is changing much faster than our beliefs and habits. Perhaps we will find the antidote in ourselves as soon as we allow a balance between the expansion of the external world and the silence of the inner world.
