"Rest"

Recently, I've felt a hunch for writing. It is so strong that I have an ambition to be a professional writer. Maybe it is because during that break many thoughts accumulated in my mind. Still I'm thinking about art and try to find a reason to keep on doing it. That is my aim and each program or broadcast I listen to, I try to figure out something important about art, what will help me in the future. I cannot necessarily be art as paintings but it can be art as literature, poetry.

Therefore I watched a program with Cz. Milosz a well known poet and an American lecturer (by the way he is one of Polish Nobel prize-winners). It was a soiree with his students and the question was asked: 'What advice would you give to young poets?' And he said: "Never try to be appropriate." That thought stuck me. I connected it with any kind of artist. Never try to be appropriate. Often they say the artist should paint something what is sold well, but then a question arises :What will happen if tendencies will change? What will happen with such artists like Gauguin for example painted still lifes and never went to Haiti? "Be yourself" that was one of the last words of Cz. Milosz. This maxime I make a rule of thumb. But how hard is to stay the way you are when the world is shouting and screaming and nothing is going on around you. All you can do then is to stay optimistic and believe in your luck.

Above you can see one of my first nudes in pencil. It is as imperfect as it could be but it's mine.

Have a nice watching, Ela.