“Dark and Curious”
Oil, canvas
30 x 30 x 2,5 cm
11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inches
2023
SOLD
Every one of you has a vision of the power hidden in the dark and deep layers of the unconscious. There is a vast potential in its fullest expression.

But traumas, stereotypes, and societal expectations suppress and distort it. The process starts so early and grows through soft, spontaneous, and free nature that this fixation no longer seems alien and limiting. It stretches from the depths of centuries, embedding fears, scripting scenarios, weaving programs, and survival mechanisms. Defensive mechanisms, sharp as needles, automatically engage in any attempts to shake the established structure.

But I am present. Alive, honest, sensual, filled with my content and unique meanings. I exist, and within me resides much of the animal, the spiritual, the material, the philosophical, the primitive, the temporal, the instantaneous, the immortal, and the infinite. I return to myself. And I sprout through the rings with green leaves, creating new worlds and branches of possibilities.

(c) Polina Kniaz-Petukhovsky