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I've Become Comfortably Numb | Drawings by Elvira Dayel. Item composed of paper
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Elvira Dayel

I've Become Comfortably Numb - Drawings

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Price $3,200

Creation: 4-6 weeks
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Estimated Arrival: January 16, 2025
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In the times like these, when we all struggle for air, making art, is my oxygen. It's the breathing medium in which to exist. Life throws curveballs & poses questions that my art-making tries to address, without ever fully answering them. It points me in a direction and gives me a thread to follow. In my work constructed reality is a fantasy into which my viewer is invited to enter.

2020 has been an interesting year for the world. Here in Cali, while sheltering in place due to the covid-19 epidemic, incessant California wildfires started raging earlier than their usual season. Fires burnt more land & forests than ever before in the recorded history of the state. They pushed dwellers out of their homes and razed through wildlife, and polluted air. Air pollution was so great that we shall always remember that Wednesday morning in September - its surreal gravely heavy orange color provided depth only seen in cinematic Hollywood productions. I was one of many artists who captured the apocalyptic atmosphere in their art. Orange Wednesday “inspired” the artwork “I’ve become comfortably numb.” Women are rendered to be ephemerally dressed in air. the background is a heavy setting for the barely present four human female bodies.


DRAWING: SOFT PASTEL ON WATERCOLOR PAPER
44.5" T x 44.5" W

Item I've Become Comfortably Numb
Created by Elvira Dayel
As seen in Creator's Studio, San Francisco, CA
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Elvira Dayel

San Francisco, CA

Wescover creator since 2017
Born in Ukraine, I am currently based in San Francisco Bay Area. I work in series of large abstract works of drawings done in soft/dry pastel on paper as well as 3D-printed mixed media sculpture. My work may be described as modernist. It is influenced by modern architecture / spacial organization, & thoughts of space and time, temporal adjacencies. In my work I reference the 20th century Russian avant-garde, the Constructivism and Suprematism, as well as such early modernists as Matisse, specifically his “cut-outs”. I’d like to think of my work as having its own original XXI century voice. Trained as an artist & an architect, I also work in new media including digital rendering (surface & space visualization) and 3d-printing. My work is interwoven and interconnected between and within the media I use. Using strong, carefully considered color and bold geometric form, I frequently incorporate depictions of the female archetype. The female figure is often placed alone in an invented landscape, color and line announce her presence. Her voice, her existence, her spirit are loud, vivid, red.

I see myself as a minimalist using only as much as needed to convey an idea. The color I use carries its own vision. Invented landscapes are new realities, they are constructs. They provide a vision for an abstracted notion of a place and space. In my work the landscape is deconstructed and re-imagined as a new notion. My work is my metaphor for searching, and my landscapes & invented places implicate the presence of the unknown. Each work, each landscape exploration, creates a parallel reality and carries its own vision. Made-up / created landscapes are new realities & are loosely grounded to provide a vision for an abstracted notion of a place, space, or absence thereof. These notions generate an invented (fictional) city/place, thus the work creates its own context which other work may inhabit.