Lara Enamel Art: about enamelist Lara Kulikova

ABOUT LARA

	Honorable Mention Award "Creation stream" by Lara Kulikova EAFA Member's Show 2010
	I like to work with metal and glass. It can be colored, melted, fired, polished, chased, etched, annealed and patinated. What better medium could we find for objects, which try to bring eternal values to our understanding... or to preserve a smile over the ages? Browse my online gallery. I hope you'll find something here that resonates with your heart and soul.

I was born in Siberia in a past century and raised by 2 parrots, Masha, the Moluccan cockatoo, and Grisha, the African gray. During my childhood I was deeply involved in my parrots' life, learned how to fly, how to operate with air streams, and also worked with art artifacts, paper, pencils, brushes and clay. However, my love for fine metal and enamels started as a teen at summer camp where we had metalsmith classes. I become a storyteller of emotional journeys using art as a visual language, where the arrangement of color, line, symbol and image interlace without a word being spoken.

I was young and happy at that time, but suddenly my both parrots Masha and Grisha were kidnapped. I followed them spending three months in a ship hold without any food, any walk, any shower. My body didn't want to communicate, my soul rolled up to prevent myself from distraction. One day we finally landed to America and escaped from kidnappers to start another chapter in the book of life.

Yes, we did it!

In the USA the flying skills gave me an opportunity to start my own school and teach kids how to fly, draw, paint, make sculptures and be not afraid of yourself. Hmmmm, let me introduce a concept of the flying technique:

You need to fall asleep
Make a deep breath, jump up and lay on your back to follow the air stream
Air is cooperating with you, supporting your move, giving you wings. Look at the sky and enjoy every moment of the being, enjoy being alive

Wonderful, isn't it?

Then I met the Computer, started to surf Internet, swim and dive doing computer graphics, web design, internet marketing and product management. Once I dived too deep... and died without oxygen... I was dead.

New life started with a sky, wine, art and birds, few months ago... Thank you to my love, my friends, my family, to all who share my way. A friend of my wrote to me: "What's common between knowledge and imagination? Both are like parrot: knowledge repeats after others, and imagination can fly." I pick the flying imagination over knowledge any day!