Black Smoke
10*15 cm
27.04.2025
Lilia Kostrov
Israel
Note from the artist
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s disaster series, I paint and reproduce prints of smoke and explosions.
The medium of ink and watercolor creates a subtle contrast between uncontrolled substance flow of the fluidity on the surface material, and the sharp contrasting lines of the ink.
Inspired by wabi-sabi practice,
It is a space where the material itself tells the story: sometimes precise, sometimes smeared, sometimes disappeared.
Thus is built the dialogue between the line and the stain drawing, destruction and delicacy, between despair and humanity.
Unique Japanese handmade art materials used in this work
- Soutai inkstick ( Vivid and beautiful bluish black, Genuine Indigo, 蒼苔 青墨 ) by Kobaien
- Seihin inkstick ( Brilliant Bluish black, Genuine Indigo, 聖品 青墨 ) by Kobaien
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