pavlina chakarova photography about color revelation contact | bio © 2009 - 2010 Pavlina Chakarova. All right reserved. Led by the striving to rediscover myself and the people around me I started reading a lot of spiritual philosophy, authors like Rudolf Steiner, Petar Danov and Karl Jung. Consequently, those books inspired me to start expressing myself through art and had a profound impact on my understanding of art in general. They made me conscious of the fact that human nature doesn't come down only to the physical world. As part of the Universe everyone is carrying the image of the entire Cosmos deeply inside himself/herself and is a part of the Whole. This is the reason why human soul is constantly experiencing inner needs to spread out beyond the physical limits. Urged by the aspiration of expressing herself she is beginning to create, to visualize herself with soul related elements coming from her own identity. In this way subconsciously through visible forms and color abstractions we are giving expression to spiritual appearance. Led by my own necessity of self expression the autoportraits became central point in my art. The images are depicting my inner world. Inside them you can find me as microcosmic reflection of the entire Macrocosmos. With own aura and aesthetic. Because each individual is unique in itself and what is coming from the peculiarity of a person can be encountered nowhere else in the nature. I'm interested in the forms, the color intensity, their metamorphoses and their harmonious melody. I'm visualizing my own melody with her own original rhythm I'm present in all those shapes and colors. In fact these photographs are reflecting the knowledge I possess of myself, because they are color revelation of my soul and irregardless of the fact whether the physical me is present on them or not, I name them all autoportraits. They are embracing the spirit of the whole, who's longing his harmonious archetype. In this way art is becoming a chain-bridge connecting the Earth and the Universe and develop the inner vision in mankind. It's a journey in the depth of our own personality. The imprinted image evokes unexpected thoughts and feelings, it draws parallel between past, present and future, between the personal and the cosmic space. I want to make the viewer aware of this other reality behind the image, which by means of its external forms and colors penetrates into his/her inner world and thanks to its psychic power influences his/her subconscious. They in turn set his soul in vibration and enrich him, because every vibration is improvement and feeds our mentality.