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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
IMPERIAL EAGLE
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 2011, 94 x 210 cm
An art critic once asked me: Have you paid attention to the symbolic meaning of the
animals in your paintings? Did you think of the power of the Caspian Tiger or the
symbolism of the Imperial Eagle in your paintings of these animals? Are you interested
in wild and powerful animals? Do you believe in their legendary powers? He guessed
that my general ideas were taken from the symbolic values of each animal. I told him,
No! I don’t care. I am happy if the symbols match my animals, but to me all animals,
even the seemingly weak ones, are as real and powerful as any other in the real world.
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