2001-2004
The impact of the journey from Romania to Africa imposed, upon returning to the country, a longer period of readaptation to new coordinates, and therefore the drawings made in the African space, the models, masks, sculptures and colours became subjects of analysis.
Then, the period of major changes in everything I did, but especially in me, and in my interactions with those around me, also produced great changes in the workshop, where, after almost 4 years, I began to work on the STEP theme, a hand apparently born from an effort, from a wish for transformation, a hand painted in Africa, in fact a fragment, the hand from which I began to simplify the surface and to reduce colouring to black and white and one colour.
I consider the Spaces period a very difficult one, but nevertheless beneficial from many points of view, as it marked the moment when I began to set priorities and simplify both my life and my work on surfaces.
Spaces – precisely from the enormous space that separates us from culture and civilization, to the space that brings worlds, colours and shapes together, through fragments, like in a puzzle waiting for a line of spiritual reordering.
I continue to be interested in the fragment-object, but in a much more elaborate manner and, although I attempted it in Africa and afterwards, I continue to work on it and to shape the idea of the cut-out as object, starting from the signs discovered in the “Step” cycle of the hand.
Beti Vervega