7 - 12 March 2006

Iliana Jordanov - Once Upon A Time...

Once upon a time, not that long ago, there was creative pattern. This particular creation was later borrowed and included into our visual imagination.
Pattern is a broad subject area to investigate, and it may be linked to many different eras and practices in visual art. Like, for example, the prehistoric visual religious rituals or the Industrial Revolution in western culture. Throughout the various stages, pattern was often considered and widely exploded as a visual messenger or narrator.


Pattern can be depicted in visual practice as a designed image that is continually repeated, or it may also be presented as a singular motif that depicts repetitive values. Pattern may allow for artists like myself, and the viewer, to drift back and forth between the real and the imaginary world. A world where fantasy, abstract ideas and forms exist and enter into new dimensional levels of consciousness. This is because for each individual, pattern represents a unique calculated code and structure.


From all these ideas, I wanted to create a particular setting in my paintings: where a different imaginary atmosphere may exist and become an almost dream-like unreality.
The paintings become small windows from where the viewer may enter. They open up and introduce the two types of patterns. The first one being the individual repetitive motifs that is being suspended in mid-air is confronted by the monotone design of the different existing pattern. I also tried to create a felling of stillness, elegance and a slight play with illusion. For what is really the real in the imaginary aspects of pattern making?


 

Cave of Fire

 

Seed of Paradise

 

The Lavender Eye