In the "flow" (the psychological concept named by M. Csikszentmihalyi) we experience pleasure. "Flow" is associated with "big" water: rivers, oceans. On Earth, Water dominates the land and provides life. The water takes part in any process of human activity, from mental to physical. The concept of "water" for people became synonymous with "purity": We wash ourselves with water, drink water. But there are few places on Earth where water is really clean. 90% of the world’s inhabitants, especially in manufacturing locations, do not have access to clean natural water, which is an urgent need. Reason: debris. Debris islands with the size of the country float in the 3 oceans. Water is full of debris and poison created by people.

The is a straight connection between the water flow and the Csikszentmihalyi’s flow. We mainstreamed the "flow" of water as an association in the mental field. We pollute water with plastic and other non-degradable waste of our human activity - we pollute our mental field with harmful information. In both cases, the goal is to chase for rapid satisfaction, which eventually deprives us of the horizon of the future. As a consequence: Aggression and discontent, which as plastic in the ocean became our hated companions. The world has changed, there is no place to retreat - it is time to change the situation. How?

Idea: to understand where to go, it is necessary to find out where we came from. Our roots are in different cultures, nations with strong heritage. Free diving into our cultures, the acquisition and living of values that help to maintain the balance of consumption and the replacement of natural goods, can become a medicine from the "epidemic of debris plague". The Culture as a vector of development will ensure responsibility for our actions and the future.

My installation made of the color of the ocean water fabric by touch resembling dolphin skin, through the sur aquarelles fixed on fabric gives a brief symbolic overview: The birth of the Earth planet; the appearance of mankind and it’s mental culture (The Ethos of peoples); scientific and technological progress; the conflict between human being and nature; and the reflection of the noosphere (as an unsub) on the future. The viewer, touching the fabric and hearing the sounds of the ocean, begins to feel an acute desire to be in the natural environment: to escape from the city, and to leap to the water, and feel it. Globus clearly shows that Water is the "blood" of the Earth, supplying all its "organs", and gives an idea of the scale of the "debris plague" of the planet (debris islands in the oceans are indicated by stickers).


The flow. Blood of the Earth

In this watercolor art work (30x40 cm, 2021) I caught the glance of mountaineer on his way to the top.

The higher you climb the colder it goes. But even in cold you keep your eyes on your target. The top is becking and giving you strenth and drive to keep on going. This a allegory with life goals we want to reach.

Ice vision

Being sea and ocean addicted person I love to travel to the seaside, observe news, events connecting with water resources and create art works about this element.

This suraquarelle (30x40 cm. 2020) is my art reaction to Kamchatka catastrophe of poisonoing Pacific Ocean in Russia. I present the Pacific Ocean as a young father trying to save his poisoned children, cover them with his body.


Pacific ocean. My Kamchanka

This suraquarelle (30x40 cm) made in 2015 is a visual game with a viewer. When you rotate an art works in each position you could find a balance despite the faces you can see and the plot are absolutely different. This is an allegory of human lives where we find and loose our mental balance because of changing our social position with different reasons. But balance is always inside us. No matter how many "rotations" we make during our life. 

Feel your balance

In this suraquarelle (60x84 cm. 2021) I reflect on extremely new tech oppurtunities of humanity in exploring Earth. 
Humanity has alredy reached the Space. Why did it ignore ocean depth for years? The hero of my suraquarelle is a first person who built a submarine to reach all the deepest trenches of all oceans. And did it several times in 2020. Now humanity has a secure way to see the whole ocean. Would you go to the bottom of the Earth?

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