SOFIA

October 29, 2024

"Goodbye Summer", Ray Bradbury

More and more I began to appreciate my time.

Each passing minute is behind me in exactly 60 seconds, and while I exist in the present, the next is already running before my eyes. And so a lifetime.

"Farewell Summer is a heartfelt installation that pays homage to time, capturing it in momentary imprints in the form of a series of drawings on small square pieces of mirrored tape. The reflection in the mirror allows me to see the past - what is behind me, and my gaze, fixed forward, in turn suggests what is to come. My sense of the moment, of what I am feeling and experiencing at this very second, finds its triangular interpretation in the form of a drawing on a piece of material using a marker.

"Goodbye Summer" attempts, if not to beat time, at least to make it clear that, although it is only tirelessly moving forward, how long I will keep what has already passed in my mind, how often I will serve it in my present, depends solely on me.

In memory of Maria Davydova Minkova

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

"Goodbye Summer", Ray Bradbury / STICK PLACE /2024

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Part of SOFIA ART WEEK /2024

October 29, 2024

SAVE THE BULGARIAN WOOL

On August 7, 2024, repressive amendments to the “Law on School and Pre-School Education” were passed, proposed by the pro-Kremlin nationalist party “Vazrazhdane,” known as the “law against gay propaganda in schools.”

According to various scientific studies*, between 8% and 10% of rams are homosexual, and about 20% have a clearly expressed bisexuality. Will we allow gay propaganda in the sheep herd to threaten Bulgaria’s wool economy?

WHO’S THE DUMB SHEEP NOW?

*Poiani, Aldo; Dixson, A. F. (2010). Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial Perspective. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 179. ISBN 9781139490382. “This makes O. aries (ram) only the second mammal known, apart from humans, capable of displaying exclusive homosexuality.”

Levay, Simon (2017). Gay, Straight, and The Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Oxford University Press. pp. 38, 119. ISBN 978-0-19-029737-4 – via Google Books.

Roselli CE; Reddy RC; Kaufman KR (2011). “The development of male-oriented behavior in rams”. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 32 (2). Amsterdam: Elsevier: 164–9. doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2010.12.007. PMC 3085551. PMID 21215767.

THE AIR WE BREATHE / SAVE THE BULGARIAN WOOL / SOFIA ART WEEK / 2024 /

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October 29, 2024

part of SOFIA ART WEEK / 2024

Priceless ingredient that makes life possible. Still, we are so injudicious towards it. I made an urban experiment and placed a white cloud-shaped piece of wool in the centre of Sofia for few days. The result: the once white wool quickly darkened and changed its smell. My message – WILL WE BREATHE IT IF WE CAN SEE IT?

Stop self-destruction; reduce pollution, before it reduces you.

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DRAMA / NO DRAMA

July 9, 2023

DRAMA / NO DRAMA

Stick Place / Arosita Gallery

"In the end, the choice is quite simple, 'Whether it's worth bearing the arrows of cruel fate,' or bursting out."

Without drama, Zen sounds and birds chirp around the neatly arranged garden. Without drama, on the other hand, art loses its sharpness. Art is a trigger that can turn any inaction into drama. To ignite the calm mind and open new horizons for it, to break the usual. But too much drama usually attracts too much chaos.

When it comes to art, what is most important? When everything goes according to plan, with no drama and unexpected results, or when things go wild, with outbursts and high drama? This is an unexpectedly serious question that this work cannot answer. He can only place it. It depends on where you look at it.

Drama/No drama - this carousel will not stop, balance is important."

text / ghostdog

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O5YQNiueOsw

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