Abstraction inspired by reality
Any literary message - a documentary description of an event or an author's personal attitude to the ongoing - is encouraging the reader of a visual imagination.
Little by little this imagination is becoming more and more exciting and often leads further away from the literary content. At that point, our creative imagination is beginning to act, materializing the world in terms of visual perception and understanding.
To me it is enough to be able to think abstractly and in pictorial terms emerging in a vision of abstract painting. However, it is better to get yourself in the place and situation. To see and feel all of it directly, in order to better explore the new realities its characteristics and uniqueness. At first, it is worth to paint and picture in an academic way, thus collecting impressions and allowing them to settle in subconsciousness. Then, later they turn into abstract metaphors and already visualized compositions.
I've noticed that the boundaries between abstract and realistic recognition are often not strictly defined, but rather free flowing, and sometimes even invisible. For instance a detail of some mechanism photographed in an unusual cut and light or even an insect fragment in a multiple magnification is visually able to tell us something quite different than if seen in a habitual situation.
I believe that the artist is something of a scientist, who also explores the world, but in irrational terms. Abstract painting is not only a personal emotional outpouring, but also an abstract icon of a new discovery, where attention is focused on something volatile but essential. It is like the story of the blind side of the moon when the form of painting and content is equally important, or even the shape may be forming of a new content. Here I see a similarity with the instrumental music or architecture.
I think that the abstraction is our unknown, unrecognized or temporarily non-existent reality, something like the mushroom wine about which we don’t know anything. If ever mushroom wine is to be created, this abstraction will become a reality...