[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Thank you Sharon,

Indeed the contrast is quite strong... however when you look at it
from a distance it melts in the general ambiance... even creates a
sort of "smoggy effect".

Originally I wanted to create a patchwork of marble imitation. But finally I have put the marble only in the frame... and left the map in a kind of "mini expressionist" treatment (a memory of my "abstract painter" past). More precisely have got involved into the pleasure of just playing with colors and textures in a totally free way.

Also the form relations can be seen as the influence of a painter called Poliakoff (1950-ies) who himself was inspired by Byzantine icons. And the "drop like" painting... may be from Pollock... of course in a very distant way. The Byzantine influence by the way can be seen in the mosaic imitation of the floor.

The "burned like" city map also symbolically creates a contrast by its texture between the idea of "realistic painting" and "abstract painting"... Or a "painting inside of a painting". Include abstractionism and not avoid it.

The role of the "firemen" in this case can be seen as a possible "exit" from that ideological contradiction.

----Action of Saving-----without really thinking why...

----Action of Painting, as a moral action, using all the styles, and
not caring for the aesthetical conventions or barriers between
abstract-realistic-acedemic-conceptual.