Agnes Grochulska
It Looks How It Feels #1, 2020
Oil on canvas
18 x 16 x 2 in
45.7 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm
45.7 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm
Copyright The Artist / Photo credit: Thomas Dashuber
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IT LOOKS HOW IT FEELS “It Looks How It Feels” paintings are my response to the strange and unsettling feeling we all experience during this pandemic. Social isolation, health concerns,...
IT LOOKS HOW IT FEELS
“It Looks How It Feels” paintings are my response to the strange and unsettling feeling we all experience during this pandemic.
Social isolation, health concerns, disrupted schedules, all the bad, and some of the good things that come with the change of pace and change of our life styles. The way the situation highlights how we are connected to our environment and connected, and dependent on each other.
I noticed that my paintings look a little bit different since the start of quarantine. Even though I wasn’t consciously trying to talk about the pandemic and the feeling of unrest we are all collectively going through, it is hard not to. It finds a way to my work - just because the same thing that is going around us is also going on inside us. And so, I have noticed that my portraits are starting to look a bit different - that there is a certain emotion and eeriness - like an in-between emotion, a quiet melancholy, an act of turning inwards. And I thought I will just go with it - that that must be what’s going on - both inside me and what I see in other people’s faces. That this hard to describe emotion must be not only what I am feeling, but what we are all feeling right now. To highlight it even more, I started experimenting with texture in the background that is also a metaphor to what is going around us - all the energy and feelings - the atmosphere of uncertainty, and all the mixed, often opposite emotions inside us. That was my thinking behind the background marks suggesting movement, energy, this kind of general feeling we are experiencing. Just like this unprecedented situation that is affecting, and connecting us at the same time.
- Agnes Grochulska
“It Looks How It Feels” paintings are my response to the strange and unsettling feeling we all experience during this pandemic.
Social isolation, health concerns, disrupted schedules, all the bad, and some of the good things that come with the change of pace and change of our life styles. The way the situation highlights how we are connected to our environment and connected, and dependent on each other.
I noticed that my paintings look a little bit different since the start of quarantine. Even though I wasn’t consciously trying to talk about the pandemic and the feeling of unrest we are all collectively going through, it is hard not to. It finds a way to my work - just because the same thing that is going around us is also going on inside us. And so, I have noticed that my portraits are starting to look a bit different - that there is a certain emotion and eeriness - like an in-between emotion, a quiet melancholy, an act of turning inwards. And I thought I will just go with it - that that must be what’s going on - both inside me and what I see in other people’s faces. That this hard to describe emotion must be not only what I am feeling, but what we are all feeling right now. To highlight it even more, I started experimenting with texture in the background that is also a metaphor to what is going around us - all the energy and feelings - the atmosphere of uncertainty, and all the mixed, often opposite emotions inside us. That was my thinking behind the background marks suggesting movement, energy, this kind of general feeling we are experiencing. Just like this unprecedented situation that is affecting, and connecting us at the same time.
- Agnes Grochulska