The Nature That Bundles Me Up
Paintings by Selin Goksel
Three years ago I came to Old School Residency and it changed my life in a very good way. As a city person, I am highly exposed to noise and crowd. The fertile field that I adore and like to walk day and night became my escaping place in my mind when get too overwhelmed.
In my experience it is a place where you feel the stillness, nothingness but then the fullness. I can say that the field of Gorna Lipnitsa bundles me up with freedom and joy so I get happily triggered to create.
At the Magician’s Classroom of the Old School, first you will be seeing an approximately 6m long landscape painting that depicts the haybale field at day, sunset and night time. Secondly 5 watercolor paintings that I got inspired by the surrounding are hung up to be seen.
And lastly a wire sculpture called “Deer Woman” can bee seen. For me Deer Woman is the protector of the sacred, fertile lands that shouldn’t be destroyed by the unwanted. I repurposed the Deer Woman’s antlers from my previous “Fire Installation” that I made three years ago.
