The script: Two brothers start upon the quest for easy thrill. The eldest senses danger and cowardly volunteers to be the driver. The youngster blindly follows his own desire for adventure and kicks.
The brothers ride through the woods, led by their happily blinded butterfly. Passing various wonders the rich wilderness could bring, they ride by the garden of unborn crying children, they pass carrots quietly making out in the woods, crawling baby slaves and bleeding chickens, they finally get to the tree where SHE lives.
The junior is ready. His arrow is prepared. He throws it and HER heart is wounded. SHE falls down breathless. The coward leaves before it is too late. The killer is ecstatic, he is the WINNER.
Suddenly the tree awakens, the flowers open their eyes, and the visionary birds appear in their casual S&M costumes embroidered stylishly with diamonds.Startled pre-teen feathered fawns surround him. Out of somewhere the drunk baby God comes down in barbaric splendor; his infant soul is enraged. Revenge is imminent.
The fiendish laughter of a mad baby doll will stay forever imprinted in the brother’s mind.
Yuliya Lanina is a Russian – born American multimedia artist who lives and works in Austin, TX. Her work ranges from
paintings and mechanical sculptures to animations and video. Lanina is particularly interested in turning the
traditional medium of painting into a multi-dimensional and interactive experience for the viewer. She strives to
accomplish this by creating interactive mechanical sculptures with original soundtrack as well as stop motion
animations based on her paintings and accompanied by original music compositions. Both of these endeavors result
in a “New Painting”– multi-sensory, time-based, and in action.
Employing surreal imagery to simultaneously elicit feelings of uneasiness and empathy, Lanina paints and collages
bizarre characters that come to life through mechanization, animation, and music. With nods to the traditions of
Surrealism and Confessional Art, these fantastical creatures are by definition otherworldly, yet they often feel
personal and familiar. These characters are the artist’s own projections of nonsensical events and
their consequences. Their malformed features and parts illustrate internalized trauma and torment while still engaging
in the life-affirming celebration of feminine power and its connection to the mysterious, the beautiful, and the sensual.
Lanina draws from many sources to create these characters. Though she often taps into Greek mythology with its
half-human and half-animal demigods, she also relies on Russian fairy tales, which are filled with fantastic beings
deeply rooted in paganism, mysticism, and symbolism. Her creatures and their stories move freely between logical
and illogical, realistic and illusory, predictable and surprising, representing life that can only be lived, but never
understood.
