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“Art matters, not me” is one of the ambigous answers of Ornat when questioned about his pictures.
The pictures show an obvious shift of the themes. While traditional painting is focusing on landscapes, flowers and portraits and mostly omit modern artifacts, many of Ornat’s pictures show buildings, cranes, poles and other technical artifacts into the picture and even put them to the fore.
Another evident detail is the fact that natural objects like landscapes, trees and humans are painted with the same attention and effort for colors and light leaving the question whether the artifact is just a part, a disturbance or an enrichment of the scenery to the spectator.
When painting those artifacts I spend the same effort to the artefact as to its surroundings to explore their interaction, friction and contradictions hoping that the questioning goes into the pictures and jump over to the observer.”
The other frequent answer of Ornat to the question what these pictures are about is the reference to the poem of William Carlos Williams “The red wheel barrow”
So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens