Made out of stone she is strong and vulnerable, breakable, hard and soft at the same time.
The Moon is awake at night – as many human beings are too
(Alabaster)
Sweet Little Queen
Between freedom to be oneself and discrimination in many countries around the world- a homage to a dear friend.
(Acrylic, Plexiglas, fabric)
A Lone Foreigner
A sculpture of an ill foreigner in front of an otorhinolaryngological (nose-throat-ear) clinic stands in homage of all the hours spent in the clinics, also by me.
It is a stranger. A stranger reminding of all the people ill away from home. Who will fix his broken water tap in this foreign city?
(Glass, Resin, Recycled Water Tap)
The Octopus Girl
Many women all around the world still struggle with self-confidence issues as they are discriminated and down rated in numerous cultures.
The girl in the art-piece is basking in her femininity and clearly being proud of what she is.
The multiple tentacles of octopus in the Freudian tradition symbolize an ability to do several things at the same time. This ability is often attributed to females.
(Drawing over Newspaper)Guardian
A wise woman once said: “To find one’s inner child one needs to recover a child’s ability of trust and wonder.”
Since the beginning of human history people have been searching for something, someone beyond themselves – the Divine – to protect and guide them.
Over thousands of years the Latvian culture has preserved their search, their spiritual and everyday experience in songs and poetry called Dainas.
More than 1.2 million texts and 30,000 melodies of folk songs have been identified. They are still sung in the Latvian Song and Dance Festival that unites approximately 30,000 singers.
The song chosen for the performance tells about trust, letting go and wonder.
The sculpture symbolizes an inner guardian, who is able to protect, guide and nurture one’s inner child.
Canide(dogs, wolves, jackals) were regarded as the guides of souls in several mythological traditions.
(Resin, Teabags, Performance)
And another, smaller guardian
Glowworm cave
Homage to the syrreal beauty of New Zeeland‘s glowworm caves.
Acrylic and tempera on canvas (120x80cm)
Creeping to the exhibition
This time – just for fun
Resin, semi-precious stones
Sea Lilies
Sea lily (lat. Bourgueticrinida) is a sea animal that lives deep in the ocean. It belongs to the order of crinoids. Crinoidea comes from the Greek word krinon, “a lily”, and eidos, “form“. They are attached to the seabed by a slender stalk and are known as sea lilies.
While other groups of crinoids flourished during the Permian, bourgueticrinids along with other living orders did not appear until the Triassic, following a mass extinction event in which nearly all crinoids died out.
They are animals of a brittle beauty that is usually hidden from human eyes.
Methacrylate (50x30x20cm)
Integrate
The limbic system of the brain includes the hippocampus and the amygdala among other parts. They are responsible for the emotional life of a human being and the formation of memories. The process of information exchange between them is disrupted by traumatic events – like abuse.
Numerous children all around the world experience physical, mental or sexual abuse. In your adult life after a trauma you may have upsetting thoughts, memories, or nightmares of the event. You may feel numb or cut off from other people. You may also avoid things that remind you of the event even if you are not able to remember what happened.
Other symptoms – like constant state of alarm and vigilance, depression, insomnia, lack of self-confidence, self-loathing, panic attacks, diverse psychosomatic symptoms – can disrupt your life, making it hard to continue with your daily activities.
The “magic formula” of Trauma Therapy born in the Neuroscience is to integrate. One needs to realize, recognize and integrate one’s past, one’s trauma in the life story before it stops to control ones present life.
Resin, Acrylic, Mixed Media (installation, animation)
Safe as Houses
Safe as Houses
… an English saying indicating perfect certainty and safety when in doubt.
How many people in this world are dreaming of safety?
How many are aching for just one good night’s sleep? Numerous people suffer from insomnia which is either stress or trauma induced.
How wonderful it would be to sleep peacefully and in safety just once…
A see-through, almost invisible form of a house creates an illusion of an enclosed place, of safety and protection.
The Methacrylate suggests a dream-like quality of the space. In the middle a transparent, insubstantial figure is sleeping deeply.
Is she dreaming of safety?
Is she protecting herself?
Is someone protecting her?
Or is she just a dream herself?
Methacrylate , plastic , tempera on canvas 20×20 25x30cm
searching...meaning 