Sveta Alenina

Sveta's Art Phenomena. Second Edition. Sveta Alenina

Sveta's art is a state of consciousness as much as it is paper, pencils, and paint. How one can define this phenomenon? I considered myself fit to write about her art as I studied art all my life. First, as an artist, through countless art studios and five years of an art college, then as an art historian, as a philosopher of art, and then as a Jungian psychologist and philosopher. And now, looking at her addictive, colorful pages, I am at total loss. I am in awe. It is "deeper than day can comprehend," to borrow Nietzsche's expression, and layered with meaning one usually does not expect to find in art. Olena Provencher, doctoral student at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.