„IMAGINE THAT OPPOSITE OF YOU IS...AND SAY WHAT YOU NEED.“

The first in a series of artworks dedicated to the process of forgiveness - forgiveness in the sense of transferring memories from childhood into visual and tangible forms, that left behind wounds - that the artist would like to heal.

The process of transformation + the act of reconciliation = Forgiveness.

The work In session consists of two old chairs found in my grandmother's abandoned house. The artist uses crocheting and sewing techniques to make a pillow on the first chair, on the second a back cover, which contain the sentence: "Imagine that opposite of you is..", "and say what you need."

The objects from which the artwork is made represent childhood—those persons - since part of the artist childhood was spent in that house, and from there the first wounds start. The artist sews a pillow, crochets a cover for a pillow, and a backrest, modeled on the ones that grandma used to make for the chairs she had in the house.

The sentence is part of an exercise during which, in one of the sessions, the psychologist placed a chair opposite the artist and said exactly that sentence to her. The exercise was related to the imagining of certain persons about whom the artist confessed, during that session. The exercise was intended to encourage dealing with certain wounds from childhood, caused by being "imagined", as gaining the courage to communicate, but even in the imagined form of these persons - the artist could not do that.

Now, after a few years, from the readiness to achieve inner peace and acquired courage, this very artwork is created when a chair is no longer needed or imagining a person - because what needed to be said was said.