Description
‘Vase of Wishes’ by Dima Kashtalyan
Artist: Dima Kashtalyan
Title: ‘Vase of Wishes’
Medium: Ink and Isograph pen on watercolour paper
Dimensions: 27.5″ x 19.7″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2022
About the Artwork:
“A vase is a piece of art, something important and valuable. Also a vase is very fragile and must be handled very carefully. For me, in this case, a vase is a place where my most secret desires and dreams are stored, to which I have been going all my life.
Life in every way tests the strength of me and my desires. But in spite of everything, I defend my right to move towards them, to follow my own path step by step, forging myself and my dream. I constantly fill my vase, which makes it more valuable and gives me more strength to go on.
I think that each of you has such secret vases that you protect with all your might and strive to achieve. It is not easy to keep them and fill them. But the knowledge that they exist and you can touch them makes the most cloudy day bright and filled with meaning.” – Dima Kashtalyan
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
My name is Dima Kashtalyan. I am a 35-year-old artist, illustrator and street artist. Now I am living and working in Warsaw, Poland.
I use original detailed technique and I would call my style dotwork, pointillism, stippling. I draw both black-and-white and colour graphics, street art, and illustrations.
I have been painting for more than 15 years. I started with classic graffiti.
The main rule that I follow in my work is honesty and awareness that I am responsible before the audience. I believe that creative work is an extremely important part of human life, so it should be treated with care and intelligence. All my pictures are a reflection of my inner world, my emotions, my life position and principles. I draw only what I sincerely believe in and find worth doing, even if it is not popular or not that common to say. Art has a strong influence on people, and the way it is depends on the authors and on those people who promote the objects of art to the public. Before creating a new work, I carefully think through the idea, the message and the artistic means by which I will get my point across. In my art, I always bring up some issues relevant both for modern society and for an individual. For this end, I mostly use well-known objects and give them a non-standard form and a symbolic meaning. Furthermore, I am trying to form and maintain my signature style in every work. To enhance the effect of my art pieces, I use a large format and carefully detail each work. In this case, a person is more likely to stay at work examining it and appreciating how much time and effort was invested in the picture. In addition, creating a new job, I always strive to make it better and more interesting than the previous one, thus developing my skills in the process of drawing.