Energy Image No. 2 autoportet “I am another tree” 2020

Sheet size: 54 cm * 1.2m

Materials: vintage wallpaper of the USSR 1970 years

Pen graphics Chinese ink, potal, varnish.

The painting is framed in a passport and an aluminum baguette.

A series of works “Energy Images”.

“I am another tree” self-portrait on Grigory Pozhenyan’s poem “I am such a tree.

You want me to be like a fir tree, green,
Always green, in winter and fall.
You want me to be flexible like a willow,
So that I could bend without bending.
But I’m a different tree.

If you peel the skin off the trunk with a planer,
Saw it, dry it, and then paint it,
It could raise the mast of an ocean-going ship,
A red violin, a spear, a red or white deck could be born.
And I don’t want to be skinned.
I don’t want to be painted, dried, whitewashed.
No, I don’t want that.
Not because I’m better than other trees.
No, I’m not saying that.
It’s just that I’m a different tree.

They say if trees lie in the ground for a long time,
They turn to coal, to charcoal,
They burn for a long time without burning, and it gives heat.
And I want to reach for the sky.
Not because I’m better than other trees, no.
It’s just that I’m a different tree.
I am that kind of tree.
It’s a great beauty to have the will to remain myself!