KARINA
ZOTHNER

When Nando told me about this idea, I was in a very difficult moment, emotionally unstable, shaken by situations that were out of my hands and over which I had no control.

Could I self-destruct, what a good idea, disappear, transform? run?

I thought about the idea a lot and tremendous, black, sharp, painful images appeared to me... no, I don't want tragedy, enough of tragedy... I want something else... something else...

I thought a lot about the posture we adopt in life, facing the events that surround us and sometimes, many times, they overwhelm us and I found a place, more or less safe, from which to observe the process, in silence, without fighting, allowing what is to be and thus, being, follow its course and its process, without judgments, without assaults, without interruptions, without wars and without pain.
The latter was very important, because the pain can become unbearable and takes hold of itself, leaving little room for what may come...

So I placed myself in a central space, intermediate between two opposite poles, between two extremes, between all known and unknown extremes; an intermediate space where extremes, opposites, are drained, a permeable space that allows ebb and flow, movement, transmutation and change.

The sketch that served as my starting point is much more contrasted, white, black and an image of my face burned in high contrast, where many details have been lost, absorbed by the white background.
There was also a text, about my visions, about my emotions, about my pain...

The process has surprised me, in its open and mutable character, I have let myself go and I have let myself be surprised; a living process that even today continues to transform in the deepest part of my being and that has turned out to be an act of Psychomagic, alive, gentle and transcendent.
Thus the contrasts have been softened, the initial black and white has turned towards ocher, green and red earths, worked in many layers of intense color wrapped in zinc white, transparent, in intermediate stages.
A very stable result, very smooth, vibrant, silent. Zen

The process has surprised me, the result has surprised me and I observe it with joy, pride and gratitude, today, from the peace of mind filled and serene.
Everything is still in its place, everything is what it is and I observe it with peace and gratitude.

Attached to this triptych I have presented 3 hearts from a long series that is still in process, we don't know how far, we don't know how long.
An emotion, a heart. My heart feels and sings and expresses itself as it pleases..