Side by side with Melancholy

30x35, chance collage, paper, ink, pen

For this work, I chose the technique of collage. I didn`t have a chance to try how it works, so I was curious to learn it. "Side by side with melancholy"  embodies my view on the phenomenon of the small soul of man, in which there is always a thread of sadness about the ecological situation on the planet.

Colors show that we will talk about a serious, somewhat sad things, as a combination of yellow and black is associated with melancholy. Picture of an elephant (that is a holy creation in India) with yellow paper passage on the eyes shows great animal problem in general as opposed to elements of an industrial plant, represented in the form of pipes on the edges of the frame composition. 

The main character and the whole story seems compressed in industrial problems. I`ve sketched portrait  with  the factory landscape. If all animals became one figure of man, how would they have thought? All production, chemical and other waste are sharp hatches, black spots, background of everyday life. And we, people, are a part of animal pain, so we share their sadness. This is the main plot of my artwork. Side by side with ecological problems, that causes strange feeling, somewhere deeply in our hearts, but very specified kind of compassionate melancholy.