I named this body of work Airs Above the Ground because I am interested in looking at states of being; spaces and events that create many questions and answers, and can be looked at in positive and negative ways. My figures are seen caught in the split between air and ground. Is it fantasy or reality, clumsiness or grace, contentment or anxiety, playfulness or anger, need or independence?

I use gesture, colour, and composition to suggest these states. The formal dress struggles with rigidity and confinement, perhaps societal expectations, internal pressures, as well as beauty, seduction, luxury and sophistication.

It is my intention to create a narrative, allowing the viewer to explore in which state of being the figure falls.

E N T E R

A transition through fantasy, longing, desire, ambivalence and what is real.

Airs Above the Ground, 2006 oil on canvas 60" x 48" Anne-Marie Kornachuk