Joya: AiR / Adriana Jaroslavsky / VEN
photo Simon Beckmann
Joya: AiR / Adriana Jaroslavsky / Venezuela
‘Being at Joya: AiR for the month of January allowed for a slower pace, more nurtured connections and explorations. The sense of community and total immersiveness into the natural landscape felt like a true embrace!
Technically, I learned how to make paint and ink from natural elements and resources. I created a palette that speaks of the memories, the space and the time spent at Joya. Emotionally, I learned how to be at one with myself and others. I learned the power of kindness and how we are all such fragile and vulnerable beings.
Everything I learned and found at Joya: AiR has allowed me to accept my own self and surrender into my truest of passions, my urges, my work that is also my life.
Science has discovered that we can’t form memories unless we’re aware of the spaces in which the experience happened. It goes beyond the poetics of space, we are constantly mapping memories and experiences in order to remember feelings and emotions. I’ll always remember this space for all it did to my soul and to my being.
With special thanks to Simon and Donna. The ‘padres’ of this profound and enriching experience / space and the fellow artist who we were lucky to have shared the residency with. We made friends for life’.
Adriana has a degree in Visual Communication from ProDiseño university (Caracas, Venezuela) and a second degree in Textile Design from Chelsea University of The Arts / UAL (London, UK). She currently continues her practice in London.