NOBA Nordic Baltic contemporary art platform

The Origin, 2025

130 x 180 cm

Zinc plate, ink paper


Human psyche resembles the metaphor of an iceberg: only a small part is visible on the surface, and the rest is somewhere beyond – unknown, incomprehensible, irrational, unpredictable. Observing and discovering the laws of the creation of the world brings us closer to the universal mother, the knowledge of which leads to the underwater part of the iceberg, and satisfies the desire to be one with her. The aim of the work is to take the viewer to a state when, in its current bodily form, there is an opportunity to return to the state of the embryo, to feel like an indivisible part of the universe. Different methods of etching the cliché emphasize the differences in the layers of perception, when black does not equal black. The cliché, like the origin of a stamp and its development in time becomes a process that has no end.