The Older Couple (The Extinct Birds)
soft pastel on paper
14 x 12
This painting brings together two stories – my grandparents’ life and the memory of extinct birds.
My grandparents on my mother’s side were very much in love when they were young. They birthed and raised seven children together, and built a beautiful house in suburbs near Issyk-Kul’ lake in Kyrgyzstan, where i was lucky to spend few summers of my childhood. I was very young then, but I remember them being older and rather quiet people. They didn’t talk much, they were very kind and solid. They had a great history of their own. As story told, there was great love, big dreams, triumphs and falls, and they had every that every human being go through throughout their lives… But they are done now. They left this world as all beings do, leaving behind their herd, quiet memories and a few portraits of them.
So did vanish these beautiful birds, whose images I saw in a museum of natural history, the old exhibition. These birds have been extinct now for more than 200 years.
This work is my attempt to keep what time has already taken.
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