Irina Bruckner

I have just completed a series of works on Grant Foster’s Rhapsody for piano and orchestra - War, Peace, Love. These works are on paper in mixed media.

This rhapsody inspired me to create eight works.

War

There are 3 works on War.

War # 1 is represented by a Warrior. The Warrior doesn’t have face it is hidden behind its exoskeleton – armour. The helmet is made in a form of an egg to remind about Lilliputians war from Swift’s novel. Gulliver discovers that Lilliput and Blefuscu are permanently at war because of differences over the correct way to eat a boiled egg – from the rounded end according to the Blefuscudians, or from the sharp end according to the Lilliputians. The silliness of the reason for a war – any war not any different.

War # 2 is represented by a Warrior of modern days.
I was browsing net to find images of Australian soldiers. Arms, tanks etc

War # 3
Roman god of war – Mars.
Initially the Roman god of fertility and vegetation and a protector of cattle, fields and boundaries, Mars later became associated with battle as the growing Roman Empire began to expand. So, much reminds expansion of global economy and justification of war in order of economical dominance.

Peace

Behind any armour a real person with its own personal life.
Family, hobbies, attachment to a place were we grew up.
Being myself a daughter of army officer I remember those little happy moments when my father was at home with us… My mother was scarred for ever as a child her dad never made it back from WWII.
Peace theme reminds of spring… Spring festivals, rides, carousels, family being together and myself up in the sky held by my dads strong arms.

Love
It is always the first kiss. Family. Children. Separation.