“The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is to remove the excess stone.” Michelangelo
Artist Residency | Provence | France
Artist Residency in Provence, France, near historical town Uzès, in a charmy silent village La Bruguière, at magical Mas D’Augustine, which I felt privileged and grateful to create in, provided for my work and creative process great freedom and allowed me to sense different kind of perspective not only to my work. The outdoor working during the last summer warm weather served for a quick flexible approach to my poured, dripped, splattered and scattered splashes of various, inspired by Provencal surroundings, colors, which I was finding in the leaves and grass on the ground, observing the color palette of stone houses around and taking them back in my memory to my temporary outdoor studio at Mas D’Augustine. The work needed to be done quickly as the sun was still strong in these mediterranean areas and the canvas was drying rapidly. There was no time left to spend the contemplation above the works which got my approach into a constant flow of creating. The time got irrelevant and the gap in between thoughts got wider and wider. But not in its physical linear term but in alignment with the creative flow regardless of anything physically evident. It was felt like the infinite space of creative flow opened up not only in that present moment, but all regardless of time and space, made a great sense. The consideration was not there, even in terms of brought materials from my home studio in Prague, the length of the rolled canvas, the randomly chosen colors I decided to paint for this project, the painted works for particular room in the house, all clicked altogether as if there was a universal law that led everything into final all-clicked result. I usually do not think about the process much, I would even say that not at all, and this time was not an exception, and all, everything that happened even on the way, showed up as an amazing evidence how all is connected, even regardless of time and space, and how surrendering to creative flow of all the movement in the Universe (lets say on macrocosmic or microcosmic scale, both mirroring each other) operates in alignment of all that is on the background some so-called divine law. Receiving this truth and tapping into its reality showed itself to be the key.
I would like to thank the owners of Mas D’Augustine for the amazing caring atmosphere they created in their beautiful accommodation that felt like home and where I could create freely. I would like to thank them as well for their generosity in supporting my work and my journey. Thank you Tom and Catherine, it was a pleasure for me to create for you.
With love..
