Adriana Seserko | State of Silence
State of Silence 2023
Synthetic Polymer on birch panel
75 x 60 cm
Signed
$5,500
If you were to question me on which noise I find most unsettling, it would not be the uncomfortable screech of fingernails on a chalk board, nor the irritating crunch and slurp of a meal being devoured, nor would it be the headache inducing ruckus of heavy metal music (if music is even what you can call it). To be fair these are all sounds that I seek to avoid, but without doubt, the noise I hate above all else is the scream of a whirring chainsaw and its promise of destruction. An anthem of a global pandemic, it sings of a disease, so contagious that it spreads like wildfire and so potent to be fatal. The illness goes by the name of greed and mankind, its preferred host. Greed that sees the obliteration of our natural and wild places. That acts purely from selfish desire and want of gratification, and that never thinks of the consequences. Greed where nothing is ever enough. Greed that rots the soul from within.
Forests, intricate ecosystems composed of varying and important life forms are cleared in the name of greed, for the mighty dollar promises power that the greedy thrive on. What does it matter if this tree is home to creatures outside of humanity? Or that said tree, hundreds of years old, holds fertile soil in place and draws in carbon dioxide, a living and breathing lung of planet earth? Apparently, it matters not, and now as the sounds of nature that accompany a thriving ecosystem have faded, we have entered a state of silence. Sceptical are we? Feel that I overstate and dramatize the situation, that I over stretch truth? Meet our little friend the humble lyrebird, the vocalist of the forest and might I add, the master of mimicry. Man, unyielding in his conquest, has encroached upon and devoured so much of his forest home that he now screams like the whirring chainsaw that threatens his very existence. It is a sound he has learnt from its constant reverberation throughout the forest. A chronic cry, a song of devastation.
Adriana Seserko
Born: 1990
Adriana has been painting most of her life. Her attention to the finer detail gives her the ability to create beautifully rendered masterpieces.
Her works often engage the viewer with a moral value, she believes strongly in the preservation of our planet and painting provides her with an instrument in which her views can be expressed to the greater community
