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MONUMENTS TO UNPAINTED PAINTINGS
A canvas is a surface of infinite potential—a space that waits to be painted on. In 2017, my teacher, Ojārs Pētersons, gave me his old canvases, still marked with price tags from 1989 — the year I was born. Instead of painting on them, I chose to turn them into something else: monuments to unpainted paintings—his and mine. By casting folded fabric in concrete, I solidified a silent possibility. These forms hold within them every painting that could have been, every idea that never took shape. The softness of cloth becomes rigid, yet it retains the memory of movement, of choice, of hesitation. Each fold is a gesture paused in time, an imprint of creative potential left unrealized yet never lost. These sculptures are not just about absence, but about presence—the weight of what could be, the quiet persistence of an artwork that exists in its own state of
becoming.
2020