Free Fall

Free Fall

In physics freefall is known as the movement of a body under the exclusive action of a gravitational field. It is referred to as resistance, to the force that a body suffers on moving across the air.

Nature has been portrayed in all of its aspects throughout history. Considered by all cultures as the source of wisdom, at the service of inspiration for the representation of the most important events of our existence, such as is birth, growing up and death; in other words, life’s cycle.

It is in this vital cycle that Hristina Milanova draws her inspiration from, updating nature’s interpretation through the use of high tech materials, digital photographic techniques and painting. The artist observes nature and filters it through her eyes creating artwork that communicate the concepts of birth, personal growth, harmony, fluidity and regeneration.

The direct relationship between the vital cycles and movement, leads her to work on the idea of Freefall, giving the project its name.

Milanova stresses the idea of inevitability of the fall of all bodies brought about by gravity and reminds us that, Albert Einstein proved that the force of gravity is an illusion, a result of the geometry of space-time. The earth deforms the space-time of our surroundings, so that space itself pushes us towards the ground. The artist is interested in this fall’s fate, fraught with all sorts of obstacles that we must learn to dodge so that the fall turns into flux and the obstacles encountered minimized. Circularity is a representative symbolism of life’s cycle.

Milanova interprets it by means of soft, rounded circles of the images she presents us with, as well as offering us the opportunity of finding our own balance through them, allowing us to choose the direction in which we wish to exhibit them.

One might say that Hristina Milanova swims in her works and with her thoughts shapes the nature she photographs. The result is clearly harmonic, full of life and balanced like all in nature.

Mercedes Estarellas 09.2015