Escape Landscapes
With this series I wanted to capture abstract motives which are ambiguous, and don’t necessarily look ‘like’ something specific. Rather than being a result of interpretation of existing reality, the abstract motives were created from scratch. At first, I did not know exactly what I was doing, but the excitement that I felt told me to continue. My motivation was curiosity and pure pleasure of creating images “out of nothing”, i.e. from the water, paint and other liquids that came under my hand. I used a small glass bowl, and the light of a table lamp. I used Photoshop only to transfer photos from the raw format.
These photographs are very personal to me because they are my “escape landscapes” - places where I escape from everyday worries and realistic world. The work on the series was spontaneous, intuitive and often almost unconscious, so it was very liberating. Creation of these photographs was my journey into freedom, an open flow of pure ideas.
Maja Strgar Kurecic, Croatia, Zagreb
