Currents – tokovi /’BODIES-telesa’

SPONTANEOUS DRAWING AS PHOTOREALISM

A line of a drawing has always had the freedom to be the first expressive element. It shows the relationship between time and space, figure and the background, the relationship between definite and infinite. As usually in arts, it is about the process. The process of following the flow; the flow of mind; therefore, a consciousness and the sensitivity of under subconsciousness. To see an image, a body of water. Before doing so, I observe the currents at the water’s surface. Observation of its lines, appearing and disappearing, how it creates images, shapes infinite lines and leaves traces of water’s movement. The fascinating fact is that we can observe these ‘frozen movements’ also in wood, our bones and other bodies, which are created by the water.

Fingerprint, 100x70cm, 2025

‘A whale!’, charocal drawing on a paper, 2025 , 100x70cm

2. WATER AS AN ORGANISM

All organisms are developed and, therefore, are formed by the water. ‘The human embryo enveloped in the maternal organism and entirely floating in water, gradually creates the distinct form of its organs out of a liquid.’ (T.Schwenk, Sensitive Chaos) As already mentioned, we can notice the same process happening in all bodies of this planet. Water is matter which creates bodies, organs, bones, structures, in which we can clearly see its traces. An organism made of water also depends on water’s temperature, quantity and clarity. It is about the water’s systems; the currents which determine the climate of its body.

‘The Figure’, 100x70cm, transparent paper, 2025

‘Green flow’ – A4, charocal drawing on a transparent paper, 2024

3. RHYTM OR MOVEMENT OF THE FLOW

When the current is not in balance with another current, the body cannot function in its rhythm. Water always finds its way through, therefore, when not in balance it searches for another movement, to find its flow. To follow the rhythm of lines, its circulations and tides gives one the sense to understand water as an intelligence which is a body of its own. ‘Falling as a drop, water oscillates about the shape of a sphere; or as a dew fallen on a clear and starry night it transforms an unconscious meadow into a starry heaven of sparkling drops.’ (T.Schwenk, Sensetive Chaos)

‘The Knee’, 50x70cm, 2023

,I take photographs of all these lines; ‘actions frozen in a moment’.

Photographs of currents are re-created by filters, printed and ‘ready to be used’ to be followed on a different paper, transparent paper. It is a technique of some sort, a photorealism, as I try to follow the currents underneath. However, my hand is not coping with all what lies underneath the transparency, rather it recreates new images by the spontaneous creation of definite and infinite, the body and its background. ‘Bodies of currents’ are created as an automatic trace and repetition; a trace of lines and its movement.

‘The Heart’, 100x70cm, 2023

4. ‘TO CUT THE CURRENT’

‘In its own nature, water does not commit itself in any way; chemically it is neutral and therefore has a multitude of possibilities for nearly all chemical changes.’ (L. J. Henderson’s, ‘The Fitness of the Environment’) As already mentioned, water will always find its way. However, to ‘cut’ its path, creates consequences. Water has many personalites which can switch and shift extremely fast. To cut the current or change its flow means to face new environments with new conditions. Water as a body, especially as matter, will take new forms, create new spheres to flow. It flows on its own and you will have to wait patiently for the water to reveal its form. With these words, also my drawings can be combined as an infinite flow, as a diptych or multilayered drawing.