Free fields chart

2021        oil on canvas        500 х 200 cm

It’s been a while since my one-legged friend flew in.
He had the courage to sit on the edge of the canvas where I start the line.
Beginning. I remember my parents carry me in a bag to swim at the Chersonesus,
and I eat ice-cream - the most delicious ice-cream in the world.
Second, third, fourth line - army, academy, kids...
Movement on the smooth breathing and straight spine.
The middle of the canvas. The hand wavered – departed parents.
The paint becomes tensile and viscous - not enough solvent.
Leaning on the adjacent lines, you see the benchmarks, but you start repeating.
Impossible to control everything and the self-esteem appears through the right to error.
It’s been a while since my friend has flown in ...

“The rules of a single brush line are the lack of rules, which begets the rule and the rule thus achieved, permeates the set of rules. The painting begins in the heart ...”

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