Poen 1 and 2, 2023
Oil on canvas
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Art, Dreams and Poetry
Mareli Reinhold
What do dreams, poetry and art have in common? They share within themselves opportunities to generate emotions, ideas and experiences, all of this through different forms of expression – through dreams, poetry and art, we explore and feel what is happening inside and around us, to interpret ourselves and others and to live lives that make us seem so far away. As William Shakespeare wrote in “Hamlet”: “to die, to sleep. No more; and by sleep, to say we end. The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That Flesh is heir to?”, both art and poetry have the power to make the pain of the soul better and all those thousand disorders and thereby directing to beauty and life. All the more wonderful when poetry turns into art and vice versa.
Many artists and writers have used this common ground to create powerful works of art that inspire, challenge and provoke thought. Some of the most famous examples in (art) history are undoubtedly Salvador Dali’s surrealist (and also dreamlike) paintings, Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry, some of which came to him through dreams, or Paul Klee’s artworks, whose one point of view was that the material world was only one of many human beings of realities open to consciousness. Art and poetry are both powerful forms of creative expression. Either individually or together, they have the ability to move and inspire us in a way that few other mediums can.
Both art and poetry act like mirrors – whoever looks into them has to accept the reflection that reflects back to them. Maarit Murka has already made the art viewer look inside themself in her works (“Face Off”, 2013/2022), but with these works “Poem 1” and “Poem 2” she steps out of her comfort zone in artistic language, painting in front of us, the lines of poetry that have reached her the most in the most mundane moments. In those moments when a person drops their protective shield and stands in themself. The lines of poetry are not presented in a strict form, but rather invite the viewer to an adventure where each of us can vibrate at the exact frequency with the work of art that is needed at that moment. Therefore, if the viewer expects these works to be Murka-like figurative, they will be disappointed. But if you look at them while standing in this same self as these were created, looking in the mirror, seeing the stories that the lines of poetry begin to tell… Then a world unfolds that the lines of writing here cannot and do not even try to grasp
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