For this project, I painted two artworks on wood using the technique of mineral pigments.
I suggested focusing on the painting style of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. I admire European Art of Midle Ages and Renaissance. And I wanted to try to create a work in that style, trying to study the principles of artworks of old masters. Therefore, I used paints entirely by hand, based on marble, lapis lazuli and other minerals.
The song "Frontier" is dedicated to the cosmonauts and astronauts who did not return from flights and tests.
In one of the paintings, a man tears apart the canvas of a black universal night, and a light breaks out to meet him. Spaceships are flying toward us. There is the life of other worlds. Maybe it's just a paradise for those who gave their lives. Or maybe it is a real, quite tangible future and a goal for which humanity has sacrificed so much.
The second composition (enclosed in an oval) was based on my impressions of the sound of the first ANS synthesizer. It was created in the USSR by engineer Evgeny Murzin and named after the composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. Coincidentally, Oksana Sheremetyeva from the Rose of Steel band introduced me to this magical instrument.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find among the recordings of this instrument exactly the ones that impressed me so much. I've heard them at the Museum of Music in Moscow # nbsp; in the audio guide. Those sounds were like a lonely human voice flying through the universe. Slowly, but at the speed of light a lonely human spirit soars in the darkness. Either the echo deceives him, returning him his own voice, or the response of other creatures reaches him at some point. And here he is - a host of souls chaotically inhabiting this picture.
The sounds of ANS once again made me think of loneliness, and about the need for a person to grow and improve the mental strength in order to overcome obstacles. And I decided to introduce this image into a picture about Space and about the heroes that didn't come back, because human genius anyhow must eventually overcome the tragedy and crush obstacles.
From the ground, children look at the stars. They are a symbol of memory and hope.
You can find Attorney Voice music on their YouTube channel by this link