Faculty of Art

Printmaking & Publications

Nadiya Svirsky

Between Here and Then

A portal to somewhere else that may or may not remain.

“One of the two tightly representational works of the thesis series, this small and intimate watercolour depicts a series of lined up doorways in the house of my late great-grandmother in rural Ukraine. In depicting this image as representationally as possible, I am trying to freeze the process of decay, both in the physical and mental existence of this site. As a place that I feel slipping away from me each passing year, I grasp onto the doorway of a house I once knew well. Now it is both frozen in time - standing unoccupied and undisturbed by humans, but vulnerable to physical erosion, and to being forgotten.”