There is no way not to be personal.
I am a calm person, a lover of life, always open to new things.
I believe that if you are open you can find wonderful things in unexpected places.
Everything in my life revolves around creating, whether it’s creating art or recreating myself every day.
I have been drawing since about the age of four.
I used to have a notebook where I’d draw, even in class, in my first school years. It sometimes got me into trouble; drawing at times when I should have paid attention to the teacher. It was like my magical place to be at times when I got bored.
I like pairing things that you wouldn’t think would go together…
I have a very strong belief that I was born to create, I feel it deeply within me. But that can take various forms, and I am less interested in the medium. If tomorrow I see some pieces of rubber laying around somewhere and want to take them home, cut them up into cubes and paint them in pink, I will do so. Perhaps next week I will wake up and give up making collage all together. I don’t know!
I do have an affinity for paper and textures, and just like I did when I was younger, I like making unexpected combinations of materials. That’s one thing that hasn’t changed. In the last two years, I have been exploring this idea of what is unseen and looking for ways to express that through the visual.
I am a visual artist in the end, and so the way something looks like does matter. But the message behind the art is where its value lies.
It’s true that art is subjective in its nature. If you and I both draw the same vase, the results will differ, a unique emotion transpires through the way we each trace our lines.
The difference for me is that where others create with an external focus that later conveys an internal state, I create from the inside out, exploring that inner depth, and translating that in an external manner.
I have a “ritual” whenever I sit down to create: I gaze down at my workspace and thank the pencils and papers for being at my side, for being means through which I can express. I then open my heart and put forth the intention of creating something of value, something that could also benefit others.
After the creative process is over I feel as though something inside me that was no longer needed has been consumed, and turned into something brand new, transforming me, and anyone who sees it.
Peace and Love, Orka
