After few years of making art I noticed that my paintings often come in pairs to me, it is like as if I asked a question and the beginning of an answer is one painting, which is followed by another one, the ending of the answer. Here are the twins.
As we embraced I quietly cried your tears,
Following entrances and exits of your heart,
If the existence is just an endless river,
We drift together even when lifetimes apart…
Taking a walk after a heavy rain made me think of how the weather is metaphorical of life events. After a stormy day wet humid air reflected beautifully the colours of sunset.
In Ukrainian there is this a word Рід, the closest english words would be Tribe or Family but these last ones don”t exactly convey the deep meaning of “Рід”, which is about connection we have with our roots, with the places where we came from.
It was painted in Montreal in 2018. 12×16″, Acrylic on canvas
