Beauty of Chaos

Painting: "Beauty of Chaos"
A painting in plastic with all Fabric Scraps Waste of Varvara's Studio projects throughout year of 2024 (starting in 2017).

2024 was a year where my vision to my life / artist path shifted. I saw the beauty in the chaos, I learned to live more intuitively.

I still plan a lot – to be able to combine motherhood, loving partnerships, household running, artistic work, volunteering and paid projects. But I always remember that at any moment it can all just stop or the daily/weekly/yearly plans shift a lot with the outside world input. What I can choose is to be curious, loving, and trust that somehow all the decisions I make intuitively or things that happen to me will make sense later on.

These are leftovers from projects I planned and many that happened from a "random" connections and series of events that I never knew would lead to experiences of 2024 and further.

I saw all these little seemingly random events, conversations, connections as something that keeps forming a beautiful picture of life.

Each piece of textile scrap in this artwork has a story behind, the project or a person connected to it. Nothing is wasted. Every connection, conversation and even leftovers of it are treasured.

🤍 some thoughts on zero-waste:

I try to run my textile studio as zero waste no matter where my studio is located and what projects I'm working on in any particular year.

The reality is even with zero-waste pattern cutting for garments, with art practice that upcycles textile waste, there is always a collection of the random pieces of minimal scraps, selvedges, threads, etc. Especially when your art practice runs along with your domestic love practice.

I collect all the leftovers from the projects + random textiles scraps that end up coming to my studio. This artwork is the studio's scrap "waste" I got by end of 2024, with some going back to 2017 and years in between.