Background
Berat Bajrami
Cycle of Life
Photo print
16 x 16 inches
2020
The telling of what happened
“A young woman, 21 years old, infected with COVID-19 who is eagerly waiting to receive the sacred title - Mother, ends her life just at the moment when she expects to give birth to her baby, and a "doomed" newborn baby who has to live without her mother, cried constantly as if she had realized her misfortune”, Albana Krasniqi, neonatologist.
Concept
“Death makes me appreciate life more! This is a painting to honor the dead, and cherish the new life”.
Creation process
This concept is presented in the visual aspect through an Illyrian fibula in a spiral shape, which represents the cycle of life - birth and death.
It is placed in the center of the painting. Divided by two contrasting colors that meet in the middle of the fibula, at the bottom of the painting there is a color with a dark tone (blue and dark), while it is enriched with abstract signs to honor the life of the victim, and an integral part is the color white to honor the moments of joy of the victim.
The rest of the painting is furrowed with a light color to celebrate the coming to life of the child, whose future is expected to be filled with events over the coming years.
The unifying element of the mother with the baby is the umbilicus, through which the baby is kept alive inside the womb. It is presented through a circular line from top to bottom of the fibula, as an element that occupies space in both lives - mother and child.
And the only events that have occurred in the baby’s life are: her birthday and the death of the mother. These two events are represented in the painting with the two spots: black and white on top of the fibula.
