“Ursa Major” popped up in my mind before I even started dreaming that work. Sometimes the titles to my pieces come first. Sometimes they are given to me by them. Sometimes, piece and title intermingle during the process, and the title gains new layers of meaning.
I want my pieces to be poetry and I want the titles to be part of the whole idea.
I spent time dialoguing with the characters in my paintings, as soon as they arrive. I listen. Right now I am looking at the eyes of the Great she-bear.
Distant and cold piercing eyes. She knows pain, and she knows the strength of the land before her ascension.
She contains galaxies. But she still bleeds.
Maybe I am her.
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