‘ETERNAL HUG’
Sky Blue is a hymn that opens.
It is the sound of a train in the distance at dawn.
I used to search for the most beautiful blues: Cobalt, Cerulean, Prussian, but then I realized that Ultramarine Blue—so average and common seeming, contains all that awakens the senses.
With a touch of Titanium White, it softens and opens wide like an infant mouth.
Sky Blue calls the body into itself.
It’s vastness—cosmic and primordial, connects to origins, to the beginning of beginnings—to the first drops of water. From oceanic depths to the clearest sky.
It is vertical.
Sky Blue is the universal hum of a thousand Buddhist Monks chanting OM.
It vibrates and massages the Vagus Nerve, nourishing broken people’s hearts and throats.
Sky Blue has its arms open wide, giving the world an Eternal Hug—a hug that may be God
herself.
When I was a young girl, I had a doll named Sheila. She wore a dress the color of the sky.
When the war sirens started wailing, Sheila was the only thing I grabbed as we ran out of the house.
In the chaos, I lost her.
Pulled by nana’s hand, I looked behind us as she fell to the grey concrete and the thousand-footed-refugee-stampede.
I watched the drumming feet beat over her body and we all escaped.
Maja Ruznic: ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ生まれのアーティスト。
ボスニア戦争を経て1995年に家族とともにアメリカに移住し、西海岸に定住した。
彼女の鮮やかな絵画には、人類史上の洞窟から、あるいは鑑賞者自身の記憶から出てきたかのような形象が描かれ、それらが物語を紡ぎ出している。 www.ontheedgeofreason.com
An Artist born in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Escaped the Bosnian War, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1995, settling on the West Coast.
Her vivid paintings speak for themselves, depicting figures that seem to emerge from the caverns of human history and somehow from within the viewer’s own recollections.