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Ania Spyra's “Energia” Series
(2021)
Description
Each of the images in the series Energia began with a skeleton printed with a linocut and its ghosts, later animated with vibrant wavy cut-outs of watercolor, mono-printed, mulberry and found paper. Each linocut was an airy warp on which I wove – at times intertwined – the textured paper. Intended to express the energy that moves and pulsates within everything, the images illustrate the vibrant fires that constitute life. I began with the green fire, but always envisioned a series, a dance, re-performing the same oval form in another color to see how each color organically suggests a different element: earth or plant life, water or air, and fire itself. The Polish title emphasizes the deep Proto-Indo-European root (*werg- “to do”) shared by the word for what moves, what is active, alive, marking energy one of the first words. The same root gives the multivalent English “work” the sense of a life’s meaning, as in Aristotelian ergon.
Keywords
- Art,
- Cover Art,
- Linocut,
- watercolor,
- mono-print,
- mulberry paper,
- found images on paper
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Comments
The following pieces are entitled as follows:
Energia: Blue, 2021
Linocut, mono-print, mulberry paper, and found images on paper
20 x 30 inches
Energia: Green, 2021
Linocut, watercolor, mono-print, mulberry paper, and found images on paper
20 x 30 inches
Energia: Orange, 2021
Linocut, watercolor, mulberry paper, and found images on paper
20 x 30 inches
Citation Information
Ania Spyra. "Ania Spyra's “Energia” Series" (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ania_spyra/38/