Arseniy Valter - fragments

fragment series appeared all of a sudden, with the smell of blooming flowers and warm salty air tickling my face.

Summertime is a unique and incredibly breathtaking period of time for me.

Sort of a small universe filled with a feeling of upcoming adventures and lulling sensation of home, where someone is always waiting for you.

This summer is different,

life feels different

World feels different.

I went on a search for myself, traveling around the world in attempts to recreate those feelings of home and safe place, while touching some of the questions of my existence: reflecting on childhood, human relationships, past & future.

“fragments” collection formed as a combination of the summer colorful glory, moments I captured on camera, and thoughts in a form of the fictional child character, bringing the innocence to the color palette and composition in contrast to my latest pieces with their screaming visual seriousness and brutalism.

star element

I am myself and I am here

To pour my soul. In a moved hand,

Starless his smile in vision clear,

Swift he passed through the darkening land.

silence binds

empowered we are with words

how dare am I to keep the silence

when truth is not the essence

when land is spitting innards

when world is breathing out of cadence;

we are the birds who witness burning homewards

dark height of truth

Something is beginning in order to end

Reflecting figure of noble light,

I have found no pleasure than the friend,

Suspending my eye with flames of sunlight.

feels different

It's sweet, so sweet, so slow

Broke some barrier course to my heart;

Sneaking soft and low, like a heavy flow,

Perhaps the strife might sometimes depart.

dare

Where shall I keep my dare ?

To the grim power, as the night wind

Keep that little prattle of thy air,

Like the clouds that mist the mountains with song.

hearts and minds

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world

To join the long long music of birds,

Even as the steel my touch lay hurled;

There was no answer in this shy word.