Ruminations

The Ruminations project originated in William Blake’s drawings illustrating John Milton’s Paradise Lost. In these compositions, figure and landscape, body and surroundings seem inseparable. The sinuous lines and intertwined forms erase their boundaries. Starting from this observation, Daria Krotova has developed a body of sculpture and drawing in which organic forms connect and unfold in space. These volumes express a way of thinking that moves by detours, pauses, and returns to itself. Blake’s illustrations thus become a metaphor for the artistic process.