Oil on canvas, 40×80 cm
Overheating cycle
Joanna Ambroz, June–July 2023
Joanna Ambroz, June–July 2023
I smoothly transition into deviation.
On the day I sent the last part of my doctorate to the print house, I got the keys to a new studio. As a result, I was able to return to oil painting. Moments later, I submitted the printed work for review, went to a festival and quickly packed for a nearly two-week Paris–Rome trip. In Paris, I sketched, journaled and ate so much caviar and baguettes until I figured out what to do next. In Rome, I experienced brilliant carbonara, lamb ribs and liver, lemon ice cream mixed 6 hours with vodka and everything was sipped with white wine. By chance, I drove past the place where Caravaggio killed his lover, and later showed up "white as mozzarella" in Tuscany. On the road, I said goodbye to all the things that had gone wrong over the past three years. Upon my return to Poland, I was awaiting news of the adding of the book "Cutting..." to the collection of the National Museum in Poznan. This is how the life cycle of this project ended, and I can firmly say that with this event I fulfilled all my teenage and 20-year impossible desires before my 30th birthday. Later I locked myself in my studio. I tested new technical solutions in painting, and you came and came to visit me, sharing the delight of the upheaval and pieces of the crushed floor.
On the day I sent the last part of my doctorate to the print house, I got the keys to a new studio. As a result, I was able to return to oil painting. Moments later, I submitted the printed work for review, went to a festival and quickly packed for a nearly two-week Paris–Rome trip. In Paris, I sketched, journaled and ate so much caviar and baguettes until I figured out what to do next. In Rome, I experienced brilliant carbonara, lamb ribs and liver, lemon ice cream mixed 6 hours with vodka and everything was sipped with white wine. By chance, I drove past the place where Caravaggio killed his lover, and later showed up "white as mozzarella" in Tuscany. On the road, I said goodbye to all the things that had gone wrong over the past three years. Upon my return to Poland, I was awaiting news of the adding of the book "Cutting..." to the collection of the National Museum in Poznan. This is how the life cycle of this project ended, and I can firmly say that with this event I fulfilled all my teenage and 20-year impossible desires before my 30th birthday. Later I locked myself in my studio. I tested new technical solutions in painting, and you came and came to visit me, sharing the delight of the upheaval and pieces of the crushed floor.
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Joanna Ambroz, Paris–Rome, June–July 2023