SOUND OF SILENCE, 2023
Eve and Lilith, 2024
The impetus for creating the series was the rethinking of my personal story - emigration, and personal acquisition of strength, when a woman recognizes her strength by realizing both her socially recognized and internal and not always conscious fears and strength. The story is metaphorically rethought through the duality of two female archetypal symbols - Eve and Lilith. Lilith is Adam's first wife, who was "forgotten" by the Bible. In mythology, she is depicted as a wayward demoness. Eve is Adam's second wife, created from his rib by God, while Lilith was created like Adam in the image and likeness of God, equal to God. How to make friends within yourself with these two archetypes, which are considered opposites? They are like good and evil within one person, yin and yang, mind and feelings, adult and child. This is about the experience of self-knowledge of a woman who is in constant change throughout her life, and who learns to accept all facets of her character.

The figure of Lilith is depicted in blue shades, she carries the accumulated strength of character, experience, wisdom of a woman. Eve is depicted in red shades - she is the youth of a woman, her sensual part, she is inexperienced and trusting, and at the same time fiery and playful. An indispensable attribute of this series is the biblical fruit - an apple. An apple is a key, a symbol of gaining some experience, it is a portal between illusion and reality. Eve takes an apple and learns something unknown, the apple is Eve's trial, it is her key to meeting her dark reflection - Lilith. This is how a girl becomes a woman.
SOUND OF SILENCE, 2023
Oil paintings depicting trees. This series is a rethink of the artist's personal experience as a migrant. Through art, the author transforms her state from negative to positive. Art is presented here as a way of overcoming a difficult period in life.

A migrant is a person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment, doesn't know the local language, is unsure of the future, feels anxiety and fear, tries to adapt to new conditions, seeks identity, and loses any support.

The artist transforms this state into something positive and joyful. Sunny fruit trees are images of these positive states, places of power where calm and sunshine. Ultimately, the migrant passes all the challenges and is reborn with a new quality, gaining fortitude, peace of mind, and faith in the future.
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Artist Anna Livna
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anna.livna@gmail.com
Irvine, CA, USA, 92618
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