From particular person strips of colourful, methodically folded paper, Yulia Brodskaya’s vibrant compositions take to the air. In a brand new collection of quilled artworks, the artist (beforehand) faucets into her love of drawing to emphasise the facility of a line.
“In my paper art practice, a drawn two-dimensional line is represented by a three-dimensional strip of paper glued on its edge,” Brodskaya says. For her mini-series of birds, the dimensionality of every line symbolizes ethereality and vitality made seen.
In “Nature of Things,” for instance, a kingfisher sits on the sting of a leaf, which seems to overflow with a geometrical grid evocative of quantum illustrations of black holes.
Foliage initially impressed the composition. “I was just sitting, observing its shape, following the curving lines with my eyes, and it didn’t take long to receive a vision of a superimposed toroidal shape…” she says, “like an organising principle that has always been there.”
Discover extra of Brodskaya’s work on her web site, and peek into her observe on Instagram.
