JELENA KRSTIC - STATEMENT

RHYTHM

Rhythm is movement, natural flow inside one's self. Rhythm evokes the sound. Life is enveloped into the sound.
Sound intensifies color, taste, sensibility and depth of life. It stirs up memories, sensations, dreams. Since it has abstract qualities, it easily reaches the most distant areas of human existence.
Through the process of creation, these emotional tides gain value of a universal experience.

CREATIVE STATE
Creative state reveals the channel into the unknown space, unknown in the sense of its non structured form. That space contains elements of a dream.
The process of creation is the voyage to / from the abstract form of mind / emotional self.
Creating a work of art is a process of a profound personal revelation, which consumes the whole spectrum of a human being. Finally, it is a liberating process, in which concepts of time and limits are reevaluated. Through creative work, one becomes not only one with the work and inner self, but with the very essence of a mystical nature of the life.

THE NEED TO CREATE
The need to create keeps an inquisitive mind restless, supplying it with a tool to address fundamental questions in a powerful and direct way; the meaning of life, human suffering, pain, isolation, survival, interrelation with the other. This question of meaning is what interests me the most in my work.
The ability to apply to creative experience, to that which was communicated inside oneself a physical body, is the driving force of my work.

WORKING IN A SERIES

I work in a series of paintings, which explore one emotional state, one experience, over and over again, as the capacity to understand and grasp the source of emotional catalyst has been expanded.
I keep on working on the same series, until I have fully merged with the essence of the work, until I am fluent with its metamorphoses, its voices, its emotional power.
Creative process is about mastering one's senses, about the strength to see clearly that which is faced in the most direct way and to record it without any sentiment or fear.

HUMAN FACE
Presently I am working on a series of the human face. A face that constantly changes and whose changes are endless. A face that exists and doesn't exist. A face that doesn't belong to anyone and belongs to all. I understand it as the face of the emotional self.

Art has the power to expose. It provokes and it heals. It is about inner growth and subsequently inner freedom.
Art is about mystery and is a mystery itself.
Each time I paint or write, I feel as if I am touching this mystery for the first time, with the same excitement, same curiosity.

HARMONY
The process of creation is pure, simple and direct. It is about harmony.
Color is the sound. Line, verse and punctuation consist of a range of rhythmic and dynamic values. Each letter is a key. Work of art is a diary entry. When I hear verses, I write. When the images move inside myself, I paint. What I paint is what I see and that is what is important to me, to be true to one's vision.

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