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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2019 WWW. UNWLA .ORG 17 Journey Home. Song carries me back to your beloved Carpathians, a lifetime later. I cross the ocean only to find myself a stranger in familia r land. Fatherland, motherland, homeland, my land greets me with your blue eyes, sheaves of green wheat from grandfather’s fields, earth black as the sea that carries radioactive poison, rivers of blood - red poppies. Immersed in music, I fall through a bl ack hole. Time warp s, my ears become a hall of mirrors, my pulse — a silent metronome. Live wires slice through peripheral noise until I arrive in the landscape of soul to hear what has been singing to me all along. They say I am the image of my mother. But my heart beats to syncopated Carpathian flutes. Some mornings, when voices of forefathers play on the wind, I weave my melodies with theirs, for children to hear. Originally published in At the Edge of Mirror Lake . A Woman’s Reader Plain View Press (1999). Our Cove r Artist Maya Hayuk (b. 1969) is a Ukrainian American artist with an extensive background in a wide and gen- erative range of art and social practices. Hayuk weaves visual information from her immediate surround- ings into elaborate, painterly abstractions, t hus creating an enga ging mix of referents from popular culture and advanced painting practices alike. Her large - scale, improvised murals speak to the artist’s obsession with symmetry, “perfect imperfection,” and outer/inner space. Ultimately, the tradition al and the contem- por ary blend into new harmonic, dissonant, optimistic, experimental compositions. Hayuk considers her studio painting and mural practices as both inversely relational and symbiotic. Hayuk earned a BFA in Interrelated Media (SIM) at the Ma ssachusetts College of Art (Boston) and has studied at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond), the Ontario College of Art and Design (To- ronto), the University of Odessa (Ukraine), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine). She has bee n a guest speaker an d faculty member at Illinois State University (Normal), the Ox - Bow School of Art (Saugatuck, Michigan), Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), and the Tyler School of Art a t Temple University (Philadelphia). She is the recipient of several fellowships, including the Clocktower Residency/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Vis- ual Arts and The Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, N . Y. Maya Hayuk’s work has been the subject of one - p erson exhibitions an d commissions at venues worldwide, including the Bowery Wall (New York), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), MIMA (the Mil- lennium Iconoclast Museum of Art, Brussels), MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Jacksonville, Flor- ida), the Museum of Contemporary Canadia n Art (Toronto), the Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht, The Netherlands), MU artspace (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), the Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, NY), the EAV museum (Rio de Janeiro), the Matucana 100 artspace (Santiago, Chile), and Monster Island (Wil- liamsburg, Brooklyn). Her work is represented in numerous public and private collections internationally, including MIMA (Brussels), the Embassy of the United States of America (Sanaa, Yemen), the Embassy of the United States of Americ a Residence (Costa R ica), MOCA (Jacksonville, Florida) and the Ullens Foundation (Brus- sels). Hayuk also maintains an independent studio practice in Brooklyn and is represented by the ALICE Gallery in Brussels. Her art work can also be found in several private collections.
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