Estonian art photographer and director Jana Solom presents an evocative exhibition featuring mirrored fragments of plants, animals, and architecture. In this collection, she delves into the intricate structures underlying creation itself.
Drawing inspiration from the fluid movement and intricate patterns found in nature, the exhibition explores the essence of creation and the significance of duplication as a fundamental natural law.
Titled Infinite Playground, the exhibition becomes a meditative experience—a repetition, a trance, a mantra manifested through portal-like art.
" This project marked one of the most fascinating periods of my career. I captured the entire exhibition at a pivotal moment—when I chose to step away from photography. Paradoxically, as soon as I released my grip on it, inspiration began to flood in during my travels across the USA.
Each artwork's title emerged in Sanskrit, channeled as I worked on the images. Even if I didn’t initially recognize a word or its meaning, my research would reveal profound insights, affirming why each specific term had surfaced during the creative process.
What also came to me was the understanding that these pieces were intended for sacred spaces and that each art portal needed to be produced in pairs.
Moreover, each work featured a unique sacred yantra symbol hidden behind the image, requiring pre-activation through sound. The images where created through the musical soundscape and inspiration from Poranguí's album Ayahuasca 2016.
To this day, I am in awe of the window I was granted to bridge these visuals. Since this project, I have embarked on my own journey exploring sacred sounds."
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम्, is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English). Sanskrit has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
This art exhibition was captured using a Canon EOS 5D DSLR as well as 35mm film, emphasizing the authenticity of each image.
Minimal retouching was applied, preserving their natural essence, and no AI tools were involved in the creation process.
The collection was first published in 2018, in collaboration with Diesel Arts and Okapi Gallery.
