Interviewing with an artist about his own works, can be noted as an interesting task, because of the fact that art speaks its own language and every viewer seeks for different meanings or visual points individually, but when the artist talks about it, our mind is obligated to accept the story behind it. On the other hand, knowing the path that artist’s mind went through which ended up to creation of an artwork, helps you observe it as more of a challenge for the artist to bring an idea into the world of colors and lines and makes you interpret them completely different. Sometimes it’s good to let the artwork speak its own language, no matter how far your interpretation is from the reason it’s actually created, but sometimes you need more information in case you want to truly get into its atmosphere.
The thing that made me glad, was talking to Dina over some of her paintings because her type of work, needs some explanation, better to say a story, in order to write about them.
The first thing that catches the eyes, is the similarity between her face and characters she designs (mostly by digital tools) which after talking about this, Dina admitted most of her works represent her own moods and specific feelings she has experienced before designing them. Seemingly simple feelings that most humans deal with during their daily routine. Such as sadness, anger, boredom or despair. So looking at Dina’s paintings, brings out calmness and sympathy for viewers more than their need to figure out complicated concepts that lie behind it.
Over the visual techniques she uses, her skill in human figurative aspects can be easily seen and also her tendency to focus on shadows and lightning is visible. Solid backgrounds draw attention to the main character and don’t cover an explanation over the atmosphere she had in her mind, but the color scheme demonstrates expressions or somehow complete the task of art.
The style she likes to work on and chose as a way to step into the enormous world of creation, is quiet impressive specially if her works are used as series in comic books or Anime, so that the story which is trying to be told, could be interacted with the viewer easier than by looking at them separately while they almost show the same character.
Art has always been a way to talk about subjects or to inject feelings into someone else’s mind, which when you find your way to communicate with it, the artwork itself will find its own to tell the world things that artist couldn’t, with words and speeches.
