Neda Marija Kuznecova
she/her
My Life as a Moth
Through sensitive eyes and migraine auras, my surroundings distort and bend around bright lights. I compose an abstracted landscape made up of the organic patterns created by light, where circles repeat, combine, and shift.
My Life as a Moth refers to the desire I have to be near these lights despite the pain they cause. In the larger works, the viewer is brought directly into this experience through expansive, bright, and overwhelming spectrums of colour and pattern, which directly contrast with smaller paintings focusing on fragments of the former. This constant contrast shifts the viewer between looking up close and looking from afar, between feeling underwhelmed and overwhelmed.
The unpredictability present in the printmaking processes distorts the downward strokes that make up the landscape. Through a mixed-media painting approach, I unify the image while retaining a process-led direction.
(L-R) Walking Home, mixed-media painting and monotype screen print, 135 x 205 cm; Looking Down, monotype screen print, 165 x 126 cm.
(L-R) Landscape Imposed, unframed monotype screen print, 61 x 112 cm; Looking Up, monotype screen print 165 x 126 cm.
Combined Shapes, monotype screen print on wood, 76 x 145 x 1.2 cm; Lights Interrupt (triptych), copper plate etching and Chine collé, 23 x 33.5 cm.
The Shapes That Follow, UV gel polish and coloured pencil on acrylic, various sizes.
The Shapes That Follow, UV gel polish and coloured pencil on acrylic, various sizes.
Research
Materials behind The Shapes That Follow.
Screen before printing Landscape Imposed.
Printing of Looking Down.
Close-up of screen for Looking Down before printing.
Working on top of monotype print with various mediums on Walking Home.