Painting by Olena Koliesnik

There are dreams that scare more than their absence. Too big. Too specific. If you try, you'll find out if it's true that you're capable of it. I went from a pharmacy to all-in on art. A dream gave me the start - and it scared me the most. Subscribers also wrote about dreams - as something they run away from. Not because they don't want to. Because they want too much, and they don't come true in a day, it takes years - years without guarantees. Surrender, try everything. One of four paintings without a fixed order in the "Escape" section. Description of the "Escape" section: I clearly know what I'm running from. But where - it can be abstract. As soon as this movement began, I seemed to get on a high-speed train that didn't notice anything around. A race that only resulted in exhaustion? I thought about such questions while creating these works. Six paintings. One impulse - "Run." The original command of the reptilian part of the brain, which you do not choose. I asked my Instagram followers: what are you running from right now? The answers formed the basis of the paintings: From yourself. From frames. From war. From people. From dreams. From oblivion. The series has an entrance and an exit - and four paintings between them without a strict hierarchy: each viewer builds their own content. The technique is subordinate to the idea: satin paper was moistened on both sides, the pigment lost its boundaries and spread beyond the circle. This is how the world looked like flying upside down. The outside breaks through the protective space - and the circle deforms, unlike the previous section "Attack" where it only pressed from the inside. One edge of each painting is torn off by hand intentionally. A trace of haste. Tactile evidence that it happened. The section "Escape" is part of the series "Solomon's Paradox"—eighteen paintings about three human reactions in crisis: stupor, attack, escape. This part was created in Spain.