Original artwork description:

“Purple pomegranates on white canvas… Near an embossed dagger. The pomegranates are
bleeding. And reddens the white canvas…
Anna was watching Sayat and, with practiced hands, wove lace without looking, and the ring on
her finger caught a thread, and the lace got loosened… The Princess jerked her hand… The
thread snapped…
And Anna, looking into Sayat’s eyes, took off the ring.
And Sayt… took off the ring!”
(Sergey Parajanov “ Sayat Nova” (“The Color of Pomegranates)).
White thread of fate
The dagger symbolically sets the horizon line as if melting onto the metaphysical plane of the
ritual table.
Pomegranates are the symbol of life…
“The wind whistles… And petals of a white rose wilt and fall down
…And then wild roses emerge.
Silence…
…And for many years the white roses cry while wilting away..”
(Sergey Parajanov “ Sayat Nova” (“The Color of Pomegranates)).
I never thought that the wilting process could be so beautiful.
In this painting, inspired by the genius of Parajanov, the polarity of metaphysical and textured
corporeality of objects and symbols reach a barbaric poignancy.
Canvas is white cloth with a history. The rugged priming mixed with ashes is like a metaphor reborn from the ashes, a symbol of eternal renewal and immortality.
A special artist’s recipe enables old cloth and sheets to be painted on. Such a “canvas” then becomes something very personal and honest for the creator.
After being cast off, this family tablecloth with a busy rose pattern has covered the desktop in my workshop for more than 10 years. Paint stains and oil smudges are reminders of long years
of creative searches, disappointments, and inspiration. The work for sale is an original, created in Riga, Latvia.

Materials used:

oil paints

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