Adriana Ropotan

Visual artist with a background in illustration, engraving and painting. New media enthusiast and a seeker of transformative experiences through art.

Be Aware

The forest thicket fully obscures any outlook on life. Perception is thus narrowed by fear and helplessness. The child that attempts to peer through it becomes a statue - an object subdued by the environment, an object that is barely alive.

Understand

To understand, our view transfers to a causative element, captured in the root. There is always the risk that in the process of tearing it out of the ground the tree might die out, but the risk is worth it, and besides the garden is grand, or, at least, that’s what I like to think.

I took it and turned it on its head, on its side and glanced at its veins, into its depths… it seems to have been itself part of another root… maybe that’s what every generation does, claiming ownership over a part of the root, planting it anew, hoping for a new tree to sprout, with the same origins, but a bit different, more adapted to its new environment.

If you bow down to nature and harmonize with it, I believe that you’ve reached your purpose, you’ve understood life.

Accept

Imperfect and broken and yet still so much so a branch, or rather “a vision” thereof. It is a piece of the tree, illusory, which symbolises the power of the imaginary, especially in childhood, when we create our worldview, and when elements that are of little consequence, become of paramount importance. Apart from the illusion, the branch also represents the masculine element

Another important distinction, which escapes us in childhood is what belongs to me and what belongs to another, from a mental and emotional point of view. Thus, apart from the significance we attribute to this or that element, we also identify with it.

The pedestal isolates it.. The doily on which it rests and has seemingly ruptured is the symbol of tradition and the acquired feminine. This mise en place is how I accept what is mine, at the same time separating what belongs to others, while also honouring the contribution these elements have had, but also removing their veil of mystery and realising that they are not me.

Forgive

Forgiveness is a new beginning. By recognising, analysing and accepting the past, but, more importantly, by choosing to bloom, in spite of it and thanks to it.