Dorota Mitcyh

Bogliasco Diary 10.16.09

October 16, 2009  |   | 3 Comments  | From the NDA Blog

Hello from Bogliasco,

Here is a view of the sunrise from my room.  Yes, friends and neighbors, Bogliasco is the creme de la creme of residencies.  I wake up in the morning to breakfast while my room is cleaned and bed made.  Truly heaven.  Then up up up a path to my studio.  The studio is small — but has a dance floor and is perfect for me.  So far I have been busy re-editing the video of Ouette – new footage from 40’s noir movies and creepy shutters and shades in the studio .  Suspense only needs a good sound track.

After a morning work I look forward to a lunch of — a pasta, fresh fresh cheese, salad or other delectable vegetable and fruit.   Wine and espresso is abundant…..

More work or a side trip along the path that follows the sea.

My husband, Scott, has joined me for a week.  While I work — he paints.  Bogliasco has given him his own private work room and veranda looking out at — you guessed it — the sea — The light during the day glistens and his paintings are delightfully quirky and colorful.

We stay at Villa Orbiana, which we share with another couple — Nicholas Bartlett and Bogliasco Fellow, Dorota Mitcyh.   Bogliasco is one of the few residencies that allows partners to join the Fellows.

Dorota is a visual artist.  She explores and creates new work by incorporating drawings and video as a continuation of a starting process.  Using an array of ephemeral materials, she explores the possibilities of working on a figuration that evolves into abstraction and becomes another figuration.  By changing the formal aspects of an image, a different image as well as meaning appears.  She will film the process to make a series of videos where in effect the viewer becomes the witness of that change.

Dorota is from Poland but has dual citizenship in Australia.  She has been to many residencies over the last three years including MacDowell.  She met Nick at a residency in Nebraska.  Nick does sculpture.  Following Bogliasco they will be at Roswell Artist-In-Residence in New Mexico for one year.

The days finish with a formal dress-up dinner.  Amazing food.  Mussels, pesto, tortellini with a grated walnut cream sauce, tiramisu, squid in light red sauce with hand picked mushrooms and potato slices, red and yellow roasted peppers with anchovies, stewed rabbit, cold veal with a tuna mayonnaise sauce — I could go on and on — oh yes — that lovely light yellow cake with pears….

Stay tuned in …  till next Friday…   Ciao.  Karen