I structure my thoughts, 2025

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

"I Structure My Thoughts" from the "Perichoresis" series explores the process of organizing the inner world, where the body becomes a reflection of thoughts, sensations, and an awareness of one's strength. This work conveys that structuring is not about limitation but about bringing chaos into balance, creating clarity amid contradictions.

The painting suggests that self-awareness—of desires, boundaries, and inner energy—is not about conforming to external rules but about establishing a personal order in which one can feel free. Here, structure is not a rigid constraint but a tool that allows for a conscious relationship with one's power, body, emotions, and desires.

The work asserts that thought and body are one, and by embracing the physical self, a person finds clarity in their mind. This process is not about self-denial but about intentional control, a playful engagement with one's nature, and an understanding that order is not a restriction but a way to achieve wholeness.

PERICHORESIS SERIES 

“Perichoresis" (ancient Greek περιχώρησις - “interpenetration"), a theological term meaning the mutual penetration of divine parts into each other, to describe a unique union that does not imply mixing or merging, but emphasizes an indivisible unity.

Daria explores the theme of new sexuality, deliberately choosing a term from theological treatises for her series of works.

With this gesture, she protests against the dictates of religion, the church's manipulation and pessimization of human sexual manifestations and physicality, the false meanings and concepts with which religions have burdened, and instead of building true connections and bridges for man and God, they build walls.

“Perichoresis" for her is a beautiful and complex term that describes the fusion of the divine and the material. Having grown up in the Protestant tradition within an Orthodox society, Daria notes the common separation of sexuality from divinity in all these religions, while she sees sexuality as the clearest manifestation of divinity, beauty, and sublimity.

The artist notes that Christian culture has invested the image of the female body with a narrative of pornographic tension, while at the same time presenting paradise before the Fall as a sexual paradise, the Garden of earthly pleasures. For the artist, sexual paradise is a safe environment, complete trust, acceptance, the opportunity to open up and discover the Other, the opportunity to learn to be loved and to love.

Love is an environment where merging does not dissolve in another person, but on the contrary, strengthens the individuality of each and enriches each other.

Thus, the artist reminds that the division into the sublime and the low in love is artificial, and overcoming this division can make life more beautiful. The heroes of her paintings are immersed in the enigmatic space of love, and sometimes there are ironic scenes that balance the degree of sublimity.