Title: “The Frolickers” Size: 120 cm x 90 cm Material: canvas, tempera 2026 Tbilisi, Georgia
It is certainly essential to solve problems, chart strategies, and focus on tactical planning. Yet I think all these serious pursuits only retain their meaning so long as they serve those little mischief-makers, ensuring they can carry on giggling carefree
Title: “The Triumvirate” Size: 60 cm x 30 cm Material: canvas, tempera 2024 Tbilisi, Georgia
I am a woman, and that dictates a lot. What’s driving my decisions right now? Have I fallen for marketing? Is it the hormones at this point in my cycle? Am I trying to avenge my childhood? Am I just hungry and running on bad sleep?
I remember painting this piece with so much tenderness toward myself and a deep sense of freedom. For me, this painting became a manifesto of my own strength :)
Title: “Kintsugi” Size: 20 cm x 30 cm Material: canvas, tempera 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia
You can be broken, but gather your strength and put yourself back together again, piece by piece, changing, and treating your scars gently, like the golden seams on kintsugi pottery. This canvas is a spell. At the time, I was thinking a lot about my creative work, and I needed money badly. It seems the spell worked, and now I’m doing well with both. But also, I’m no longer afraid to break — I’ll put myself back together again into an intricate cup and add some golden seams.
Title: “Trust” Size: 30 cm x 20 cm Material: canvas, tempera 2024 Tbilisi, Georgia
If you hold a seashell to your ear, you can hear the sea. If you listen closely, you can find all the answers there. You might have to pass through a storm of old grievances or the calm of exhaustion. Deep-sea fish will tell you about the past, and dreamy albatrosses will carry you on their wings wherever you wish to go. This painting is a reminder: always trust yourself, always be on your own side.
Quadriptych “Cycle” Size of each canvas: 17.5 cm x 24 cm Material: canvas, tempera. 2024y. Tbilisi, Georgia.
These canvases depict the female menstrual cycle. For me, it makes sense to start the conversation about the female cycle from the end. PMS, or the luteal phase of the cycle, when your mood is so terrible that at times you don’t want to live. Then comes the long-awaited period, which of course comes with pain and low energy, but your mindset is already combative and you want to get a lot done. The follicular phase: those week and a half when you can just live in peace. And then there’s ovulation: boundless energy, an aggressive mood, and pretty soon the celebration of life gives way to the luteal phase again. This series has been shown twice at local exhibitions in Tbilisi, and both times I had to spend a long time explaining to many of the men who came up to me the basic things that women live with daily for 20-30 years of their lives. They listened as if they were hearing about it for the first time. On the canvases, the match symbolizes the amount of energy, the object in the center represents the mood, and the object on top represents the level of pain.