Raison d’etre

20х20
acrylic on canvas
2023
sold
Raison d'etre means "reason to exist" or "reason to be."
I tried to convey the subtlety and elusiveness of the very concept of being a living person on this earth with the image of a drop of blood in a bowl of milk. Two fundamental liquids from which life emerges and grows, nurtured, cultivated, soothed. And how it hurts. Milk is like love, and blood is like pain. The bowl symbolizes the very circle of human life from birth to death, a circle that closes and repeats again, passing through love and pain.
A woman breastfeeding a child. A woman carrying a child. A woman who is menstruating.
A woman in love. An old woman looking tenderly at her grandchildren. A woman spinning threads. A woman working in the field. A woman making beds. A woman drying herbs. A woman milking a cow. A woman sleeping. A woman screaming.
It is she who brings life into this world, with love and pain.
Exhibition history:
- 27 April 2023 – House with a stone, personal project, Ukrainian People’s House, Przemysl, Poland
- 3 – 30 April 2023 – Art residency in the People’s House, Przemyśl, Poland














