Gifted Belarusian-born visual artist (painter) Red Komar has reached another milestone as her additional painting, "Children's Horrors", participates in this year's Luxembourg Art Prize.
Famed for her exclusive art, vivid imagination, and portrayal of contemporary events, Red revealed that her paintings, including "Children's Horrors", reflect her current emotional state. ''Negative experiences are usually the most vividly remembered. ''It is difficult to shift to a positive mindset after being at the center of negative events,'' she said.
Red Komar's "Children's Horrors" is a cry for help. As a numb observer, Red tries to visualize her pain from the ongoing injustice, masked by hope and faith in a better future. As a beginner artist, Red revealed it is difficult for her to depict what she wants to happen but says that the emotions are so strong that even a novice hand can convey them.
''Every day, we are under tremendous pressure from the press, relatives, and friends, bogged down in the swamp of "their truth," which pours out of the local media as if from a broken sewer,'' she said. ''Children's suffering is painful for anyone, but it is particularly devastating for the artist's heart. I couldn't ignore this concept while the rest of Eastern Europe was in disarray.''
''Furthermore, it is surprising that the majority of the world's artists are unaware of this issue. The artist's heart is more vulnerable, and it took a lot of spirit and strength to immerse myself in a state that allowed me to portray this image. Depression, anxiety, despair, and loss of hope overtook me,'' she said.
Red revealed the creation of the "Children's Horrors" painting required enormous emotional costs. ''I began and stopped this work several times because it exacerbated my depression, which seeped into and poisoned my daily life. It drained my mental energy. Fear of the horror of what was happening, fear of the unknown, and fear of expressing my emotions gripped me. Incredible rage and hatred for the fact that even expressing compassion is illegal and that ignoring it is intolerable,'' she stated
Having survived the agony, Red gathered her courage and realized that the work must go on. ''I must channel all my emotions and pain to capture this dark period in human history. Freeze it on the canvas, so it doesn't repeat. So that everyone who saw this painting could feel the terror that children and adults felt''.
Red was emotionally drained and exhausted after finishing the painting and couldn't move for a week. The upcoming summer and her little daughter's gentle thin voice, breaking through tons of self-flagellation in her consciousness, helped her come to her senses. ''It aided my escape. The sudden realization that I am not deprived of the ability to hug my child and live, which is not an option for everyone, I did not stop feeling pain after finishing this painting. Still, I did feel relieved that I tried and refused to remain silent,'' she said.
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