Soil, 2022

Tetiana Borys  

This painting belongs to the series “Who's Next?". In August 2025, the painting 'Soil' along with four other paintings from this series was exhibited at the exhibition “Dialogue between Heaven and Roots" in Lutsk (Ukraine) at the Art Gallery of the Volyn Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. After the exhibition ended, one of the paintings, “Roots-Insight," found a collector and was sold.
.{First you search}.
.{Then you stop to think}.
.{You find a visualization}.
.{You turn around and walk in circles again}.

There was a time 
.{when I looked out the window of the local archive. At the breath of wind that embraced the birch trees.
Questions arose in my head, to which I was simultaneously searching for answers. Some of them are still waiting to be answered. But I am in no hurry to get them quickly. I am in the process of enjoying this research, gaining new experience. Then and now, I do not want to take the possible reality to heart. I believe and hope for the best!}.
Most archival sources revolve around soil (I mean only the top layer). It has always played an important role throughout history (and you may recall that in the beginning, God created a friendly partnership between heaven and earth. The latter was unremarkable and disorderly. And, of course, God gave man the opportunity to take care of His creation. But man turned paradise into hell on earth. Man is constantly searching. But for what?)}. 
.{For me, soil is a dynamic system that always strives for development with the participation of all chains!
A good harvest.
Rest!
To feel the visible and the incomprehensible}...
.{At the same time, it is a repository of physical events throughout the world, reflecting various symbols and dimensions of being. These are reflections on the symbolism of the life-giving force that preserves the multi-layered history and memory of past centuries in the soil. The earth remembers everything, while humans only remember the moment of life. Recorded}.
The painting will be delivered in a cardboard tube. It will be pre-packed separately in transparent film and then in bubble wrap.