Anna Djanan

At what point do you become an artist?

I think at that moment when you can no longer be silent and you need to speak, express yourself, share what overwhelms you. At this moment, there is a person who is looking for answers to his questions, looking for something to fill the void with. Here art comes to his aid, it gives an opportunity to look at the situation from a different, sometimes unexpected side. Helps to plunge into yourself. I am sure that all the answers to our so different questions are already inside us, you just need to hear and accept yourself.

My creativity is my second self, which I would never dare to accept. This is the search for your voice, this is meditation, this is the study of me and my inner world. Realizing this, I sublimate myself and get to know the world around me.

In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”

My work is connected with the search for form, color combination and with the word. I see colors in letters, gradients in words, and taste in sentences. All this translates into a feeling from my paintings or videos.

For me, creativity is, first of all, the study of what God has given me. Secondly, what lessons can I go through and what conclusions to draw. Creativity has no framework or boundaries, no clear structure. This is an idea, sketch, canvas, wall, paint, pencil, charcoal, video. It is expressed in everything. It has no beginning and no end. Therefore, the language of my work is universal.

The letters that I use in my paintings are based on the ancient writing of the distant ancestors of the peoples of the Western Caucasus and the generic signs of the Circassians, Abazins, and Abkhazians.

In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”

I am a journalist by education, and my husband is a philologist. We often have conversations about languages. In practice, we learned what unconscious memory is, when our children, at the time of the formation of their speech skills, began to pronounce sounds that were not characteristic of any of our native languages, but they are different with my husband. Through a long study of our genealogies, we learned that the ancestors of my husband 6-7 generations ago were Abaza and it is this people and their language that have characteristic sounds in the words that our children pronounced. We saw this as a mistake and corrected them.

Upon further delving into this issue, it turned out that the husband's ancestors spoke a different language. When he found himself in that environment, there was a great emotional shock. He said that this speech is so clear to him, he feels how it flows through his hands through his veins and stops on his tongue! He just can't express it.

As an outside observer, it is easy for me to identify different words that are similar in pronunciation in different languages. Sometimes they have a similar sound and the same translation. It is interesting to study the names of animals or plants among those peoples who could not possibly intersect with them. It's amazing, emotional! A lot on the level of feelings.

In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”

Therefore, I encrypt messages in my paintings that I am sure the viewer will be able to read. What can the creativity of one person give to another? It is important for one to speak out, to share what fills him that way, while the other is looking for something to fill himself with, to find answers to questions. All this is important for the harmony of this world. I hope my answers fit someone else's questions.