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The endless Drawing

Elena Blanco

United Kingdom

Drawing, Ink on Paper

Size: 8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0.1 D in

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This original ink painting has been made on 300 gsm fine art watercolour paper. It's part of The endless collection. About the collection idea Inspired by the 2018 film of the same name, I called my series The Endless. Endless is a mysterious word. It feels counterintuitive because everything we know eventually ends. But it touches our imagination, leaving us with a feeling of both terror and hope. Maybe there is an endless, cyclic repetition. We see it in the seasons -this renewal that seems endlessly taking place. Maybe the universe too works in cycles -as in the idea of the big bang and an expansion followed by contraction. The endless could also be an eternal process of transformation of which we are only tiny moments that pass fast. About the techniques The endless is the title of my new collection of drawings made with ink and pencil lines on watercolour washes. These wiggly searching lines are drawn with a quick movement that starts randomly occupying the paper and becomes more conscious and controlled as the play between lines and wash defines space and light. Leaves, flowers, blossom, trees, lakes, rivers, mountains, seem to invade the paper and go beyond its limits in an endless growth. They have this strange, dream quality that seems to refer to an illusory existence, a constant arising and ceasing of mirage-like imagery. But however illusory these visions may be, they are images of almost spiritual beauty and joy - a reference to the endless, with its implications of both terror and hope. “For beauty is nothing but the onset of terror we’re still just able to bear” (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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Drawing:Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0.1 D in

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Elena Blanco is a UK-based artist working with watercolour and ink to make paintings and drawings. Her work is often illustrative and takes inspiration from literature, cinema and dreams. Working with watercolour and ink, she interacts with the unpredictability and fluidity of these media to conjure the illusion of light and space, creating dreamy, evocative scenery sometimes populated by silhouettes and intriguing designs that transport us to timeless landscapes reminiscent of voyage and unexplored territories ARTIST STATEMENT I’m fascinated by the fact that simple marks of ink and washes laid on a piece of paper can create such intriguing worlds. I like to think of my work as a poetic experience, both in the making and in the viewing. My paintings do not offer messages or answers. They are the pure experience of the joy and playfulness of art making. Art is a creative response to the creativity of the world. The artist's interaction with the world is indeed aesthetic, without functionality or judgement. It comes from a vision full of wonder and curiosity. It has no specific agenda. Like play, the work of art, both in the process of creation and in the process of contemplation, exercises a healing function bringing us closer to the pure state of being from which everything can emerge. My process is a journey that begins with certain purposes that often get lost along the way. One thing leads to another. The questions I ask in a piece remain relevant in the next although transformed. It is a process of becoming without conclusion. The accidental is part of the process from the beginning. Every contact has an impact on our minds and appears in one way or another in our work. New doors open all the time. Possibilities are never exhausted. ​ WWW.THEARTOFELENABLANCO.COM

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