Still Waters
2024
Still Waters is an observation of the marine landscape as an independent entity embedded with geological narratives. Rethinking painting from an ontological standpoint, I approach it as a medium grounded in materials – working with pigments that hold (hi)stories related to the motif of still waters. The landscape becomes a tactile ground where I treat painting as a continuous gesture – a way of detaching from depiction towards reevaluating the fundamental structure(s) of painting.
Terra verde pigments are often formed in marine environments – the formation is related to water-related events (activity of seas and rivers). Water is an essential condition for the sedimentation of glauconite and celadonite minerals, which gives a green colour in all its varieties. These materials hold histories and memories; they remember how the landscape layered and evolved through millions of years.
The work was created at Kintai Arts residency; part of a group exhibition “Landscape Formations”.
terra verde pigments on cotton paper, linen threads / 155 x 135 cm
(pigments gathered in Estonia, Malta, Iceland and Lithuania)
