The color in transition in memory
Carolina Vieira, 2022
According to the studies of Lu Jong, a form of Tibetan Yoga, earth is one of the five elements
wrought inside and outside the body and its pure quality is calmness. Associated with the earth
element, calmness goes against much of what we undergo nowadays and, at the same time, it
is necessary as a haven to breathe, pause and ponder. This is the work of Paula Siebra,
revealing an attentive gesture and an invitation to contemplate what surrounds us.
The present time proposes us this: breathing, pausing, amorousness. Paula's painting requires attention, and in exchange it allows us to perceive the welcoming and caring that the contemplation of her work provokes. The elements contained in her works frequently bring, rising from mundane life, a sense of belonging and intimacy, which is "nothing but feeling at home", as the artist herself said in an exchange of letters. Which memory causes you to feel at home? What place would that be?
With a keen eye on her surroundings, Siebra was drawn to the sand bottles. These objects, as handicrafts, became something usual: perhaps due to mass production and tourist trading, the technique of sandcrafted bottles or sand bottle art has become extremely ordinary. A work that demands patience and imagination is not solely a trivial object of the culture of the coast of Ceará — a souvenir, a little key chain, a gift from Ceará.
There is something in this object that captures Paula's attention: the construction of the landscape, the relationship with the colors of her favorite painters, the composition as a possibility of figurative or abstract image. The artist realized the richness of creation in the craft of composing images with colored sand in glass bottles — a delicate, sensitive and precious work. In addition, when deepening her research, she still came across the fact that, in Ceará, the history of the founding myth of the practice bears the name of a woman, Joana Carneiro Maia (1908-1978), who developed it and transmitted it to other people in the municipality of Majorlândia.
There are several names for the particular technique that is exalted here through the eyes of Paula Siebra, inviting the public to perceive with a novel glance what is routine and is also beyond the visible — like as a sunset landscape on the beach, rafts on the sea, rugged cliffs or a simple dune on the coast.
The present time proposes us this: breathing, pausing, amorousness. Paula's painting requires attention, and in exchange it allows us to perceive the welcoming and caring that the contemplation of her work provokes. The elements contained in her works frequently bring, rising from mundane life, a sense of belonging and intimacy, which is "nothing but feeling at home", as the artist herself said in an exchange of letters. Which memory causes you to feel at home? What place would that be?
With a keen eye on her surroundings, Siebra was drawn to the sand bottles. These objects, as handicrafts, became something usual: perhaps due to mass production and tourist trading, the technique of sandcrafted bottles or sand bottle art has become extremely ordinary. A work that demands patience and imagination is not solely a trivial object of the culture of the coast of Ceará — a souvenir, a little key chain, a gift from Ceará.
There is something in this object that captures Paula's attention: the construction of the landscape, the relationship with the colors of her favorite painters, the composition as a possibility of figurative or abstract image. The artist realized the richness of creation in the craft of composing images with colored sand in glass bottles — a delicate, sensitive and precious work. In addition, when deepening her research, she still came across the fact that, in Ceará, the history of the founding myth of the practice bears the name of a woman, Joana Carneiro Maia (1908-1978), who developed it and transmitted it to other people in the municipality of Majorlândia.
There are several names for the particular technique that is exalted here through the eyes of Paula Siebra, inviting the public to perceive with a novel glance what is routine and is also beyond the visible — like as a sunset landscape on the beach, rafts on the sea, rugged cliffs or a simple dune on the coast.