Anna Mikheeva

An interview with artist Anna Mikheeva

How would you describe your work to our readers?

Rethinking reality and reflecting the world and man in this world.

I create because it is my natural reaction to how I feel. This is a reflection of events taking place in the world in my life.

What subjects are you inspired by and how does this influence your work?

Having given up unnecessary details, I am driven by the desire to convey in my works primarily feelings and emotions. The desire to convey feelings and thoughts through colour, which are sometimes so chaotic that they can hardly get a clear form.

Colour…. Yes, colour inspires me. I can spend hours mixing colours to find the right shade... I think at this moment I am moving away from reality and enjoying the process itself. Colour and emotions it seems to me, I can portray the sound.

INSIDE

How do you create your art and what material do you use?

Some of my work is done in black, succinctly minimalistic. Only at an angle are details showing the inner drama visible … The black answer, is capable of reflecting millions of colours and incredibly revealing in different angles of view, like that of life.

In moments of inspiration, I immerse myself in work and do not notice how it flies for several days.

Who are your artistic influences and why?

People, feelings and emotions ... By their randomness and rationality, sometimes simultaneously.

What is the favourite emotional piece that you have created and why?

My most emotional work was the result of fatal events that took place in my life. As a direct result of this, the art work was the first piece produced after a long break.

It is shooted? What happened?

It happened. Maybe later I can explain it. I felt bad then …

SILENCE

How do you deal with criticism of your work?

This is a reflection of my vision of life. I do not know if this can be criticised. This is my vision of life at a given moment in this context. Rational and irrational at the same time. I create, but everyone sees their own. Feelings caused by the pictures are a reflection of the inner world of the beholder and their individual reasons, goals, circumstances. This is an abstract moment in time and it is revealed from different angles, depending on the circumstances. Each has its own truth of what is happening and so is changeable depending on personal circumstances and time, which can bring about reasons for changing the truth. We are forever changing, what was important yesterday no longer matters today. What you don’t notice yesterday will be decisive today. Your best motives can be a fatal mistake, just like your wicked stingy joke is the beginning of the beautiful ...

Criticism? A source to begin the beautiful …

THE PAWN

Has social media affected your work?

I am an introvert so it helps me to communicate.

Social media is primarily an exchange of information on a global scale, depending not so much on the Internet as on the quality of the information that the user is interested in. In the best situation, the subject of interest is science, art, and the opportunity to learn something. In a social network there are limitless opportunities for communication. People who later become friends or family can initially be thousands of kilometres apart. It is thanks to such unifying resources that the world’s space has become much narrower and has enabled everyone to choose with whom, when and how to communicate with them. There are also disadvantages, sometimes a person uses this opportunity incorrectly. So, instead of a useful pastime, the user can choose endless reading of gossip, quarrels with opponents, reading any unnecessary and useless information that can safely be called information garbage.

In addition, an active virtual life has a bad effect on the fragile psyche, exacerbating the problems that already exist. This may be the inability to communicate or a wrong assessment of oneself as an individual and much more. It’s impossible to unequivocally advocate for or against social networks, because a lot depends on the person himself and his choice.

UNBORN

How long does a piece take to create?

My most emotional work was the result of 10 years of life.

What’s the future for your art?

Now I am working on a series of paintings, each of which will become a reflection of human life with its goals, causes, mistakes with its love, hatred, despair, vice, desire and passion.

This part of the work is absolutely not about form, this is my subjective irrational vision of the world of emotions and repressed feelings. Probably, from the point of view of psychology, this should be considered a possible attempt to escape from reality but on the other hand, it’s a way to accept, relive and heal something that hurts inside the mind. Some of them are maximally laconic - no extra details, no extra movements ... Others are chaotic and irrational having no structure, no logic and no clear sequence and still others are algebraic codes.

Human lives in every picture. We can find ourselves in one of them, or in several at the same moment or in different at different points in time.

What are your dreams?

To find that place of unity and peace.

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