It was night and we were running from an old city made from stone. We were running away from a huge ghost hunting us and flying above. Everyone was screaming. The ghost flew into the crowd and got small in human size, in a ghost costume he was running away from himself as well and screaming. with a comedian shimmer in his eyes. He asked me if I wanted to see something and I agreed. We walked to the left at the edge of the sea. There was a flood going to destroy the city... which he didn't care about. He asked me if I wanted to live. And I said yes. Then the flood stopped. I saw a sparkle positioned in the sea in my body and in his one, coming through space and time. And my sister in gamekeeper clothes was coming from the right. In Czech, the word "Spirit" and "ghost" are the same.
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About my work
I´m Coming from the most atheistic country in Europe, probably in the world, some of us are Spiritual in independent way. I see the way in the inner source. For me it opens mostly in the form on night dreams. Mostly there I find some kind on modern myth on contemporary challenges. I try to follow this guide for about 20 years bit more consciously (and we draw a night drams map with my sister as kids already).
I'm a storytelling artist, using mostly the medium of painting, where I can focus and touch the timeless space, so refreshing in the middle of the fast world. When I'm done with introspective part, I look for ways to cooperate and open up to boarder world. Visions get more interactive forms: tapestries, fabrics, herbal dyes for wool spinning, writing lyric (since 2016?) and singing in introverted art band with slow tempo Maria, making some ceramic tiles infiltrated in the street, fictive magazine for psychiatry, murals for houses. By those other forms I make art approachable, a renaissance of art and craft idea based on modern night dream mythology.
Bio
2024. After 12years in Holland and 1 year in Germany I live in Prague again. I didn't really return... still going there to exhibit and play a gig, I'm based in Prague now with broader boards. I decided to “work” as an artist, not to put my baby to daycare and question all standards of our society. I would preferer not to be so complicated, however artist life brings a lot of free time and low income, so we are on a level of pensioner walking slow in Albert looking for discount and reflection on life deeply. Questioning hierarchy and competition, habit of not being responsible for one's own health, vaccinations, human species dominance, authoritative education. While this is the best we made after the long but expiring patriarchal protection/innovations.
I studied in Prague at Prazacka Gymnazium 2003-2007, I had great teachers and had a chance to read C. G. Jung, A. de Souzanelle or J. Heffernanova when I was 16years old. Than I graduated in visual art at West Bohemian University in 2011 from Illustration (if that's art than I'm done with it), the same year I moved to Germany and awarded an internship in C&A as textile designer in Dusseldorf (that gave me fever & burnout for 1,5 years and I quickly run back to art). Year later I moved to The Netherlands to study fine art (call me crazy the second BcA.) and graduated in 2015 from The Royal Academy of Art in fine art at painting department. Since than I had atelier at De Besturing studio "complex" in Den Haag and since 2021 shared with newborn baby. 2024 I'm back in Prague with atelier at home.
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other inspirations
Interested in non linear world of causes and consequences not only in dream or coincidences. According to the Chinese I Tjing (2000. B. C.) the perception of cause and effect is different than ours. It organically perceives life, where the relationship of causes and consequences is synchronous and events intertwine in many layers. Mom with newborn learn a lot about this. Artists often feel it without knowing. The Western spirit processes this suspicion in various works of art and philosophy as well. Richard Weiner, a Czech-Jewish German writer (1884-1937), is proud to be a plaything of nonlinear consequences. The same is discussed in the novel by the Russian writer Mchaill Boelgakov (1891-1940) Master and Margaret when the Devil talks to a socialist writer who thinks he knows how his day will go but he dies. Related aspects are widely described by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) in his description of the unconscious. A book by the American therapist James Hillman (1926–2011) says that man was born in his perfect self (seat) as a complete being, he declares that in childhood games and experiences where kid is already living the same pattern of adult mission.
related activities
I organized group exhibitions in Den Haag, Rotterdam and Prague and the biennale art-music festival Itch Tongue (where I participated as a song writer and a singer of art band Maria). I received studio visits (from Stroom Den Haag, Unfair, Glasgow International, galleries, artists and visitors). I did workshops for KABK young talent in atelier building De Besturing in Den Haag. I love barefoot shoes, baby wraps, healing herbs, forest, alternative education from Stainer's schools to democratic schools ideas.