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Sacred Space
I n this context, her studio is like a “safe cave” where she can abandon herself to the process; take leave of the outside world, and be immersed in the flow of
work. It is a site of production where she is neither vulnerable, or fearful that ”someone will come and take your body away whilst you are working”, or disrupt the messages being received and channeled through the work. A pure, psychic space where she can be guided by intuition and instinct. As a result, studio visits with Aigana are mind altering. Like walking into a cave that was actually a forgotten temple, one senses this is a sacred space. It captures the imagination, and shows you your own shadow dancing on the wall.
Conjuring the atmospheric emptiness of the vast Eurasian Steppe, radiant and mutable, these works capture the ephemeral nature of colour found in places absent of human construct, and call to mind the words of Michel Seuphor. “There must be a kind of painting totally free of the dependence on the figure - or object - which like music, illustrates nothing, tells no story, and launches no myth. Such a painting would simply evoke the incommunicable kingdoms of the spirit, where dream becomes thought, where line becomes existence.”
“I think that art is sacred nectar from a human, I think we are here for that. We condense the information we receive (from the light) into objects, and make things that reflect how we understand the world. It’s a process that allows cosmic information - nature’s story - to come through us. Our personal lives, our struggles are not important - what is important is what we leave behind. That is why I believe art is the most valuable thing in the world - it is a human thing, compact with information, made to be discovered. Mona Lisa is there, not the artist who has disappeared, and we still relate to her, talk to her, understand things through her - even cry seeing her.”