Illustration ... or Something


I've been into this green moth world for quite a long time now. In spite of that I never stopped to think about what I was really doing. OK, it started as practicing watercolours, but I think it became having a life of its own somehow. A couple of months ago I visited Slovenian Biennial of Illustration. Just a day later M and I went to Villa Manin in Italy where we saw an exhibition of Lorenzo Mattotti's works. I found his comics and illustrations the most powerful and memorable. So, much later, while browsing through the Mattotti exhibition catalogue, I stopped to think what I was doing with the moths. I realised I've been sort of illustrating Lorca's Romance Sonambulo, the way I saw and felt it. I intentionally avoid using the word "understand", because it has nothing whatsoever to do with it. So, what now? Who knows ... I might do a kind of fan art zine in, say, ten copies ... or something ...


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Že nekaj časa se potikam po svetu, kjer ni ničesar razen zelenih vešč. Ne glede na to, nikoli nisem pomislila zakaj to počnem. OK, začelo se je kot vaja v akvarelu, to vem, le da se mi zdi, da so te slike zaživele neko svoje življenje. Pred nekaj meseci sva z B obiskali Bienale slovenske ilustracije. Samo dan kasneje sva se z M-jem odpravila v Vilo Manin, kjer sva si ogledala razstavo del Lorenza Mattottija. Njegovi stripi in ilustracije so se mi zdeli zelo močni in so mi še dolgo ostali v mislih. Mnogo kasneje sem prelistavala katalog z razstave in nenadoma pomislila na svoje početje z veščami. Pravzaprav ilustriram Lorcovo Mesečniško romanco, tako kot jo sama vidim in čutim. Namenoma se izogibam izrazu "razumeti", saj nima prav nobenega pomena v tem kontekstu. Kaj zdaj? Kdo ve. Morda s pomočjo računalnika naredim neke vrste mini knjižico in jo na najbližjem fotokopircu naprintam v kakih desetih izvodih ... ali nekaj podobnega.

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