Painting by Olena Koliesnik

Tired of going towards each other - the moment has come when there is nothing left to give. Relationships where one continues to move and the other has stopped. Communication that exhausts more than silence. I knew this state from the inside - and asked my subscribers: what are you running from right now? The answer "from people" came from many. I hide in my own bubble, pretending to just observe. But the outside world still leaves its imprints. In the picture - blurred silhouettes outside the circle, a background that loses shape. A race from human interaction. One of four paintings without a fixed order in the "Escape" section of the "Solomon's Paradox" series. In the "Escape" section, I clearly know what I am running from. But where - it can be abstract. As soon as this movement began, I seemed to get on a high-speed train that does not notice anything around. A race, the result of which is only exhaustion? I thought about such questions when 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.