TRANSCENDENS NEGATA TRANSCENDENTIA by Vaysha Hirsch-Todorovich

VAYSHA HIRSCH TODOROVICH's illustration was first exhibited in an on-line artists' salon, via Jonathan Dawes, with THE PAPERCUT ARCADE, February 2021, entitled DENEGATIO TRASCENDENTIUM, for their "Post-Human Romantics," project. Translated from Latin, the title means, "Denial of Transcendence." 

In this latest showing on my Transcendental Kriya blog, Vaysha has re-titled her illustration, TRANSCENDENS NEGATA TRANSCENDENTIA, or "Transcending the Denial of Transcendence." With this re-naming, the artist aligns with her illustration's highest themes...

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

It is through the interface of technology, a vintage camera, which expresses the young photographer's vision of transformation beyond human self, into an icon of deathless Nature, the spiritual essence of a hummingbird. The vintage camera, symbol of her personal power in Life, transforms her dying moment, creating a gentler flight-path, beyond Death. 

She finds her transcendence to Peace-of-Mind, in the distant past of the Romantics, symbolized by the heritage stone border and wrought-iron gates of Rockland, surrounding her vision. The present form she departs from, is trapped by the obsessions which imprisoned her, symbolized by nebulous, dew-drop spider-webs like chains, or the black shroud covering over the death-bed. It is key to notice that the photographer emerges from this stifling shroud, where her hands appear, taking the powerful, timely action of pressing the camera button, and projecting her transformation of Spirit, outward. 

A dominant theme in TRANSCENDENS NEGATA TRANSCENDENTIA, is found in the flowering blue poppies which symbolize addiction and untimely death. The illustration is emblematic of Vaysha Hirsch-Todorovich's body-of-work, in that it draws on both modern influences like, "tattoo art," incorporating bold line-work or Alternative thematic motifs, as well as showing a throw-back romantic reverence for Nature.

There are appearances of influencing constellations: Pegasus, her horse, and the Pleides, the Seven Sisters, the spirit world of flowering cherry-blossoms beyond Death's door, and the swallows crowning the portal beyond Death. It is notable that the trio of swallows are in flight bearing a broken-stemmed flower, which symbolizes that a woman has passed on, before her time. 

The young woman is caught in a turning-point moment, flying off the precipice of her own death. She stares at us from her death-bed pillow, yet seemingly past the viewer of the illustration, as if projecting beyond. The blue poppy landscape may be the only surrounding environment she may detect before her, but she does not yet perceive the red-door portal opening, leading to the deathless blossoming land of cherry-blossoms and green pastures.  

TRANSCENDENS NEGATA TRANSCENDENTIA is designed by Vaysha Hirsch-Todorovich, with the visual formality of a Tarot card, and from that metaphysical/mystical tradition, comes layers of psychological symbology, unifying and expressing this metaphysical illustration's highest guiding theme, the artist's self-transformation or "Transcendence." Freedom through the final portal, attained, beyond chains of addiction, pain, and even the "finality" of Death.  

Synopsis & Artist's Statement, written by Andre Hirsch-Todorovich