Andrey Moss

While I'm working on my new Collection no.8 (you can read a little more about it in my previous post here) I want to share a small part of my playlist that sounds during work and fills my studio. These several videos, totaling almost fourteen hours, feature the Baroque and Renaissance music that I love so much..

Historically, it is customary to call the Dark Ages the period of European history from the VI to the X century. But despite the evolution that followed in the following centuries, and I am not sure that it was evolution, the divine light still does not sufficiently illuminate human existence.. Isn't the execution of Joan of Arc a manifestation of absolute darkness? Isn't St. Bartholomew's Night the apogee of violence? All these events, which took place much later than this period, are a legitimate product of the obscurantism of the dark ages. And now it continues to live, deeply rooted in human hearts many centuries ago..

I started working on my eighth collection over a year ago. Gathering information, I was waiting for the right moment when I saw in my head what I needed, when all the pictures and images would form in the right direction. And now I'm finally starting to create my new Collection no.8. For the first time my work will be divided into two parts. And as always, every picture, every date has its own meaning. But more on that later..

After two years since my seventh collection, I decided to sort out the considerable number of papers and books that surrounded me while working on the collection and make room for new ones. My next 8th collection is just around the corner, which needs a change of scenery.. Here you can see some of those papers..

My creative journey marks 10 years today, a journey that began with a collection inspired by the Crusades. Below you can see selected photos from each of my nine collections created over the years..

The first acquaintance with the inspiration and muse of my fourth collection will be through dance. To be honest, I'm not a fan of dance or ballet, I'm an opera person. Dancing always confuses me, and it seems unnecessarily forced, artificial. Perhaps this attitude to dance is due to the fact that I myself once studied ballet for 6 years. But nevertheless, there is one very special thing that I come back to every year. And this is Igor Stravinsky's the Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch

Before I start talking about my fourth collection, in honor of its sixth anniversary, here are some previously unpublished pictures of that time while working on the collection.. It was a time of searching and a complete reboot of my work. All the previous accumulated experience formed the basis of my first full-fledged collection, consisting of products ready for made to order, and not one-of-a-kind creations. This work contained a lot of references, but more about all this later..

All this time Monna Sidonia, the mistress of the house, and Cassandra sat before an immense open fireplace in the room below Messer Galeotto's laboratory. Their supper of coarse vegetables was stewing on the hearth, and the old woman with unvarying motion of her wrinkled finger spun the linen thread with her distaff. Cassandra watched her idly, and thought: 'Always the same thing. To-day as yesterday, to-morrow as to-day. The cricket chirps, the mouse squeaks, the spindle hums. There is a crackling in the dry sticks on the hearth, and I smell turnips and garlic.'

- Euripides, Medea