„BOAT - SOUL“
My boats symbolise a soul that travels through time and space, soaking up the beauty of this world.
I first saw soft crystal boats during a fire in the basement when flames engulfed the entire apartment building. Flats with residents' belongings burned, plastic water pipes melted and flowed into the basement, where surviving occupants tried to escape air raids and shelling. The carbon monoxide and suffocating smoke forced the oxygen out of my lungs, and I began to have visions. Just beneath the ceiling of the 1-metre-high basement, I saw a glowing dot in complete darkness.
I was lying on the floor with my pre-war paintings under my back, which I had taken out of the flat before the fire. The light was coming from a small spot under the low ceiling. It grew to the size of a tulip flower and began to change shape. It formed a boat, a children's paper boat, but not of paper, but of light. It grew, changed and sparkled with a substance that resembled a sparkling diamond cloud. The sight gave me strength and faith that I would survive, and I desperately wanted to show this beauty to people.
Later I realised that perhaps it was a visualisation of my soul, a symbolic representation of my soul.
After I managed to escape from hell and brought back to life the laptop I had rescued from the fire, I made a digital sketch of my vision to keep the idea alive. And from that moment a renaissance began in my life. A renaissance of art. The boats, whose glow I drew with a digital tablet rescued from a burned down house, helped me to survive the tragedy of war, helped me to survive, distracted me from heavy thoughts and post-traumatic depression.
The glow of the boats drawn by the author in the multisensory style, the beauty of the flowers blooming in them, the transparency of the water, symbolising eternity, is a way of rebirth.
The world is full of beauty, the world is full of love, and every human soul is filled with the light of this world.
As soon as I had canvases and paints, my luminous boats with their blossoming trees and flowers came alive in picturesque paintings that would make any home that became their cosy abode happy.
