The Kiss
100×100 cm, acrylic
Yuliana Kilchevskaya, Olesya Muntean
2022
Don’t hurry, stop, let your gaze take a passionate kiss deep into the picture, and looking closely you can discover a whole universe of meanings…
The spiral is associated with the symbolism of the center, the beginning of the beginning, where development, evolution, the movement of life begins. This center is where forces, power and energy are concentrated to ensure movement. This is the great creative force, the solar power of creation, the hidden fire. In addition to fire, heat-tapas, the spiral is associated with water, with the Great Mother who rules life and death.
Combining the form of a circle and the impulse of movement, the spiral is a symbol of time, cyclicity, life and death. For this reason, it is linked to the idea of dance, which here joins in a kiss, the endless kiss of love, to make it last forever.
In addition to the burning passion, there is an allegory in this work: the kiss of Mother Earth, which breathes life and, as we know, is the purest and most unconditional love.
