Alexandra Kosloski

"Epiphania"

“Whether you come to me as a lover or an executioner, I am ready to receive you” – Agustin Gomez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

The collection of paintings for “Epiphania” were conceptualized by the notion of epiphany itself. Epiphany, in it’s literal sense, is a manifestation of a divine being, and in its modern sense is a moment of sudden realization or insight.

I’m drawing connections between ancient people and us, and the way renaissance people looked back at ancient people, and now we look back at them. “Epiphania” is about how quickly things change, and the experience of big or small moments of revelation, and how it can feel like being struck by lightning or divine intervention.

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Alexandra Kosloski

Untitled, Plaster and tempera paint, 32D, October 2020

I think a lot of people, like myself, have felt really lonely during this pandemic. Physically, we have to distance ourselves for our own self preservation and to protect others. A lot of things are really confusing and defeating, I want to close myself off anyway. I think the body language of this period would have it’s arms crossed. Crossing is a gesture of defensiveness, shyness, discomfort and insecurity, anger. I’m imagining otherwise; where our feelings are more outward, and that gesture can be frozen in time, and worn like armor. I’ve also noticed a change in fashion, where a lot of rules are being broken, and replaced by what makes sense for this environment. Photoshoots are taken on iphones and via facetime, many working people are staying home, sales of sweatpants are rising and nobody wears bras anymore. Overall, old rules don’t apply. Constructs that we thought mattered don’t. What’s more important now is creativity and resourcefulness, and adaptation in a new landscape, as well as social consciousness and kindness towards yourself and others.