Inspirations

I've been writing a blog about my lastest inspirations for my art and photography. It is very important for me as an artist to try and capture a meaning or an emotion in a piece. I this blog I discuss these inspiratsions and means behind many of my pieces. To read more visit: www.estermariasfinearts.blogspot.co.uk

Scotland through a Lens

A journey through Scotland. Monet believed that he owed having become an artist to his flowers. I believe I owe having become an artist to being faced with moments where my breath is taken away and there are absolutely no words to describe it.

Travelling through Scotland on the Isles of Skye I was faced with the raw beauty of a country which appeared to have been left untouched.

I questioned whether people in Scotland 200 years ago or maybe even longer ago, like the vikings, had seen the same Scotland which I see today, right in front of me. Whether their first sight was the same as mine.

I am usually truly inspired by rapidly changing societies. Changes of Ideas, People, Cities and lives. Seeing what people have done: the potential. It was therefore to my own amazement how a simple stream and a hill covered in grass where able to create such a reflective and breath taking atmosphere. And this I wanted to capture in my photography.

I tried to capture the true beauty, the way it stood by itself. Focusing on the use of light to portray and capture the atmosphere and my emotions as a response to the scenery.

You where alone however somehow you did not feel lonely. You knew that someone someday had been in the exact same place maybe even at the exact same time of the day before. I continued a journey that so many other had already started.

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A Glance at World War One

Exactly 100 years ago the first world war broke out and took with it millions of lives. This year is marked by the remembrance of the victims of this tragedy.

Every country lost soldiers, men, husbands, fathers, brothers and sons!
Every country suffered under the loss of losing such beloved people.

This is what my piece is about. It questions the reasons of war on a more personal level, that of a soldier or the family of a soldier. Influenced by my personal family history the pieces strives to communicate the similarities between all soldiers of the war. They where all the same! Each one fighting for their own country, for reasons given to them by people who themselves where not fighting in the war.

This Art piece done in Pencil on top of collaged propaganda art casts a critical light on the purpose and effect of the war. My great-grandfather, who died on the eastern front, is drawn on the left positioned besides a russian soldier, who also died on the eastern front. Both are drawn in the same media to portray the similarities, the only thing differentiating them is their uniform. My granddad grew up without a father and so did the children of the russian soldier. Both wives where left widowers with only mere memories of their young husband to hold on to.

Hands holding a pencil and puppet strings are positioned above the soldiers, symbolising the ways in which propaganda, and the ignorance of horrors of war, formed, especially younger men and encouraged them to go to war.

In a favourite novel of mine "All is quiet on the western front", Remarque develops his characters to start to see the war itself as the really enemy and not the soldier in the opposite trenches. This grand understanding of war is reflected in my piece.

All victims of war should be remembered. All countries where left with a generation that grew up without brothers, fathers, husbands and sons. I therefore question and ask you -

Where there really winners of the war?

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