Synkroniciti is jazzed to welcome back painter and art therapist Sabrina Mazzola Roguljić with three photographic images: Attachment, Crossing boundaries, and Hidden Potentials, drawn from a larger mixed media artwork entitled The right path research.
“As an art therapist, I encourage an authentic way of expression— finding “our own signature and pattern”—allowing people to translate their inner selves, their unique ways of living and moving through life. Pattern becomes a part of identity: a cellular structure made up of memories, repetitions, emotions, and decisions. Each of us follows a different path, so each pattern is composed of distinct elements, symbolizing connections: with others, with ourselves, and between our conscious and subconscious minds. These patterns extend physical presence or acknowledge the absence of it.
My pattern consists of geometric and abstract forms that repeat—usually sewn, but also painted or drawn. These forms can exist on their own as unique works.”
These are abstract images in vivid color–I love the way the greens and yellows pop against the black and white elements–and fascinating texture which stems from the different media mixed together. We see stitches, fabric, ink and paint juxtaposed in a masterful way that makes us unsure which is which. Circles and ovals feature heavily alongside lines and rust-like patterns, making us reflect on birth, germination, aging, absence and wholeness. If you look closely, you’ll find the entire cycle of life is present, as are the marks of recovery and healing evidenced by the thread stitches which hold things in place.
If you were to try this excerpting practice in your work, what would you find? Sabrina makes us curious even as she delights us with the beauty and substance of her lexicon.
View Sabrina’s intriguing images in Synkroniciti’s “Patterns” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Sabrina Mazzola Roguljić is a painter and art therapist living in the south of France, originally from Croatia. Passionate and endlessly curious, she is always seeking something new and rarely misses an opportunity to give herself a fresh challenge (some might say too many, but she disagrees wholeheartedly). She holds several degrees—an MA in Arts and Education, she is an Art Therapist and Transgenerational Psychoanalyst—and is currently a researcher in expressive arts.
She uses the artistic process to explore the depth and wisdom of her inner world, allowing unconscious material to “rise to the surface” where it can be seen, sewn, understood, and occasionally negotiated with. Her art represents an ongoing attempt to strike a deal with ancestral decisions, so she can break a few cycles, keep the helpful ones, and ultimately carve out her own truth—with a paintbrush, of course.