Katarína Janečková

It seems like as if you were building like a cosmology.

That's what it feels like.

I'm really curious how you think of the figures that orbit you, the woman.

Because I'm seeing your partner, sometimes a man, sometimes a bear.

Same with your children.

And there's other animals that come in the picture.

Your body turns into different things, I want to say, because...

Mostly earth or elements of earth.

As if you are the planet or something like that.

And yeah, I'm just so curious if the beings... surrounding the centrifugal you are they an extension of you or how do you see the different entities inside of your world

you know like you said that uh the cosmology that i will that i am building I feel like similar to your Blood of Aurora project.

It's something that I feel strongly like we are building it together, you know, like as women and mothers.

Like it's not only like the work is, of course, very personal coming from women.

my experience of motherhood or womanhood that but I never really wanted to make it like about me only um and the more the the greatest compliment that I can hear is that someone like from you that someone connects to it because I thought that you know about I thought I think about all the mothers and all the women when I'm doing it because I feel like wherever we are in the world, we are actually like, if I even think of just an experience of breastfeeding and feeling so like, you know, like when you really want to do something that you love doing but you can't because you are like put in some really uncomfortable position and you're breastfeeding either one or two children and you can't move and you're thirsty but you can't.

Just all these intense feelings.

We are experiencing it, all of us, very similar.

So I feel like in this way, it's very universal.

And it also changes the more personal it gets.

It changes, for example, from the bears.

I used to paint men as a bear because I felt like I wanted that bear to be... anonymous figure that everyone can imagine their partner, lover, protector, or someone instead of the bear that could be woman or man or whoever.

And then as I think, as I worked on my own relationship, because we are together around 14, 15 years, and it hasn't always been such a match, you know, like coming from different cultures.

It maybe started as a big love, but very like distant in minds.

And then as we worked on it and also through different therapies or, you know, failures and in communications, I think the bear was slowly transitioning more into looking like my husband, you know, like because it got like he, yeah, now he really deserves it, you know.

And yeah.

I love that.