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Sofia Bachvarova "Tat Tvam Asi"
Tat Tvam Asi
oil, leaf on canvas
65 x 58
2022
sofia_bachvarova_artist_All That Remains When We've Sang Our Sorrows_oil_on_canvas
All That Remains After We've Sang Our Sorrows
oil/leaf on canvas
59 x 60 inches
2016
This painting is inspired by butoh performance
Trepidation Of One
oil, leaf on canvas
54 x 66 inch
2015
The Vows
The Vows
oil on canvas
42 x42 inches
2016
Bachvarova_Sofia_Beyond The Hanging Gardens/Bardo V_oil on canvas_ oval 56"x48" 2014
Beyond The Hanging Gardens / Bardo V
oil, leaf on canvas
56 x 48 inch. oval
2019
Bachvarova_Sofia_Beyond The Hanging Gardens/Bardo IV_oil on canvas_56"x48" 2014
Beyond The Hanging Gardens / Bardo IV
oil, leaf on canvas
56 x 48 inch.
2019
Amongst Counting Crows and Queen Anne's lace
Amongst Counting Crows and Queen Anne's lace
oil on canvas
36 inch oval
2018
Such Were the Laws of Tacit Understanding
Such Were the Laws of Tacit Understanding
oil / canvas
36 inch x 36 inch
2009
She Never Loved A Man Like This Before
She Never Loved A Man Like This Before
oil on canvas
48 x36 inch
2016
This series of paintings are a meditation on the transitional moments of being between doing, known in the West as "Limbo"; a "place between worlds", or "Bardo" in the Tibetan spiritual tradition.
Beyond The Hanging Garden: Bardo I
oil/leaf on canvas
54 x 50 inch
2016
"Beyond The Hanging Garden" investigates the transitory states of consciousness between our past and future existences, described in the Tibetan Book Of The Dead as bardo, or in western ontology as limbo.
Beyond The Hanging Garden: Bardo II
oil on canvas
52 x 54 inch
2016
this painting titled Coming Undone is part of the _ Beyond The Hanging Garden Series _ Sofia Bachvarova _2012
Beyond The Hanging Garden: Coming Undone
oil on canvas
52 x 54 inch
2015
Sofia Bachvarova "cockfight"
Cockfight
oil, leaf on canvas
66" x 32"
2014
Percephone's Dream
Percephone's Dream
oil on canvas
30 inch round
2015
She Was Often Reported Gone On a Wild Goose Chase
She Was Often Reported Gone On a Wild Goose Chase
oil / canvas
58 inch by 50 inch
2009
WoWNoW
WoWNoW
oil on canvas
42 x 42 inches
2019
In Search of A See Rabbit
In Search of A See Rabbit
oil on canvas
58 x 58
2015
Between The Dancer and The Dance
Between The Dancer and The Dance
oil on linen
68 x 58
2015
Inspired by Umberto Eco's novel "The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana"
"The Mysterious Flame "
oil/canvas
24 x 68 inch.
2014

These paintings are shamanic journeys.
They do not aim to tell specific stories, although they seem to do so.

These could be visual revelations of non-temporal rituals, which only seem familiar to the figures engaged in them.

Alien, yet familiar in its visceral charge, each Alchemical journey is meant to be taken alone.