Eliz'art discovered polymer clay in 2006 and since then, her passion for this material and its unlimited creative possibilities grows every day.
She has a special way to use it, mixing it to natural materials and seeds, but also pigments, species... so that she manages to obtain a natural effect to her creations and give them an ethnic style.
Since she met polymer clay, her life took a new direction. She quit her job to dedicate to her passion and creation. Every pieces she makes is completely hand-made and she puts all her energy and sensibility in each of them. Her love of the Nature, her first source of inspiration, influence her work and can be seen in all her creations.
"Through my jewels, I try to reconcile each other with the Nature and make people feel "light" and happy. They are like my attempt to rebuild the link that unifies us Nature, all the more that our speed way of life in modern societies is destroying it more and more day after day...
It's like something we couldn't live without but that we don't realize because we don't have time to even think about it!
Using seeds, old branches, leaves, sand... in other words, every little treasures we can find if we see things with a creative look, we can make very nice things and give to those elements a "new" life... We just have to free our imagination, put aside standard rules, take time to live fully, be sensitive to our environment and also curious of every thing to make experimentations and then discover new creative fields..."
Julia Surba is a siberian artist, whose favourite expression art became pyrography*. Inspired by art of ancient world cultures, Julia has developed her own "background" pyrography technique by which carving in combination with burned pictures build expressive relief patterns in Tribal Art style.
Last time Julia scrutinizes the almost forgotten small culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (Siberia), that is why her objects often represent the unique world-picture of aboriginal inhabitants of this culture. She tries to keep its knowledge, live and develop it.
Julia Surba is a member of the International Association of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA).
In 2005 she established the "Kuzhebar-Design" studio, which is specialized in pyrography-design, design for music instruments, developing of logos and CD-covers, fashion and amulets.
*Pyrography or art of fire (from Greek pyros = fire) or Wood Burning Art is the art of burning an image onto a surface: wood or leather. It was popular in many ancient cultures of Australia, Afrika, Amerika and in Ancient Kuzhebar .
About Julia Surba:
"i love you artwork! i think it was the innovation of alot of todays modern art with the spirit and earthy feeling of old. thank you for your beautiful art it brings out true emotions... good luck in the future
peace and thanks,
Thomas Dirk"
“What I thought when I saw your work was that it was original. I can see an influence of Mayan, African, and Tribal......but, really it is your own twist. I think you started a new category of your own and one day students like me will be studying your style”.
Archeologist April, USA
The idea of the project of Eliza and Julia KUAAMU - Kuzhebar Synergies is to bring together ancient signs, natural elements and modern materials like an example of the way, how the ancient and modern forms can be kept balanced, complete and support each other instead of destroying each other.
We see that nowadays, people often feel disconnected from the Nature and their roots. Too much new information comes each day, too many things they have to manage at the same time, no time for rest, no time to stop and look around, no time to see the beauty of the Nature, no time to think about the life they live, no time to enjoy it...
In ancient times, life looked different. Not so comfortable on one hand, but closer to the Nature and in harmony with the body and the mind on other hand. Ancient people knew how to speak with flowers and the wind, they understood how to respect the elements and they could "read" natural signs around them.
Today, new technologies come into our life, changing it completely, putting us on the big distance from each other and from ancient natural life style. All that push us to create the project KUAAMU - Kuzhebar Synergies, which is our try to create a bridge between past and future, natural life style and high speed life in urban cities.
Each object we make has a message, because the ancient kuzhebarian symbols are involved into them, what let them be called "Kuaamu".
Kuaamu are actually a special kind of save objects which were used in the culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (South Siberia). At first sight, they can seem like jewellery but they are not. There was no idea in Ancient Kuzhebar to beautiful oneself because people thought they were primordial beautiful. By the way, they were very practical and it would be a nonsense for them to have some baubles on without any magic intention!
We also use in our works natural elements, such as seeds, wood, pigments etc. which are combined with polymer clay, material that allows to create almost everything we want (there's no limit to imagination with this material, except those we impose to ourself).
We put all our passion and love into each piece we create together. Each Kuaamu is unique and has its own purpose.
We hope you'll enjoy the results of our collaboration and Kuaamu will bring more joy and harmony in you life, just stop, look at them and read the message they have.
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2 comments:
Long life for KAAMU :)
Good energy and very beautiful job :))
clap clap clap !!!
Gratuliere !!!
soizzzz
Thank you! Danke schön!
We will go full speed ahead:)!!!
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