"Anattā" by Petra Šabić, Mixed Media on Canvas

DETAILS: 55'' X 43'' Mixed Media on Canvas Original Art Work 2020 Artist statement: Paintings are often before anything else, a black canvas filled with scattered energy of chaos – a rhythm of pure sign. In this sense, the membranes of the canvas become the meeting places of the inner and the outer, the meeting of the destructive and the creative..., and the space of the painting is understood as a changing substance. The forms that live in the space and tissue of the image are subsystems of a more complex model that function on their own, but also as a whole. As I see it, painting is a tool of thought and a research practice. If you think that there is an unusual code with which reality is written and through which we have an insight, then there must me some moments when there's a glitch in a reality. These moments are captured as artistic situations on canvas. This is the ultimate meeting of the destructive and creative and the painting is understood as a integrity of polarity wit