Original artwork description:

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"I Will Play Until Sunrise," from the Inner Garden Series, embodies the theme of perseverance and the joy found in continuous self-expression. This artwork captures the essence of dedication to one's passions, reflecting the artist's belief in the transformative power of creativity to navigate through life's cycles and challenges. It encourages viewers to immerse themselves in their pursuits, embracing each moment of creation as a step toward self-realization. The piece is a celebration of endurance and the sustaining power of art, suggesting that through artistic expression, one can maintain a connection to joy and purpose, undeterred by the passage of time.

Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals.

Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home.

Here is what Daria herself says about her works

I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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