Tarja Laine

The immersive quality of these paintings embodies the desire to be absorbed in the magic of nature. Inspired by sunlight filtering through trees – Komorebi in Japanese – they emphasize the interplay between light and form. Other paintings examine at which point an ‘abandonment’ of a work of art can take place at the earliest. Not because the process of making has become tiring or annoying, but in the spirit of Paul Valéry, who wrote that “a work of art is never truly completed but abandoned”.

dated 2020 until 2021 (click on an image to enlarge an artwork)
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