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Drawing and Painting

Yana Rzayeva

2. Great Divide

Painting
2022
30x39 in., encaustic, oil, textile on canvas.Here I used the border of a discarded handwoven rug as a metaphor for political/geographical borders that divide land and people. Although there is no direct imagery that implies landscape, the texture created with beeswax and the earthy tones suggest land.

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Great Divide
Great Divide

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Yana Rzayeva

Visual Artist

“My work has always been inspired by nature because I appreciate its beauty and value its therapeutic qualities. However, when I think of paintings of nature, and the Canadian landscape tradition in...” [More]