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                     zOJA TROFIMIUK
                     Lives and works in Huntingdale, victoria, australia
                                        www.users.bigpond.net.au/airx/default.htm
               artist contact
                            airx@bigpond.com
            Volume  and  Space  are  concepts  that  have  influenced  my  art.  I  am   given me the opportunity to stretch the boundaries of these concepts to
            particularly fascinated by their appearance in the human body.  I am   new limits, as well as offering me the joyful experience of playing with
            interested in exploring dialogue: both internal dialogue which exists   colour. I would like to concentrate my attention on capturing absence,
            within  oneself  and  external  connection  which  moves  between  two   an impression, commemorate memory, fleeing presence, give physical
            people or objects.  My art explores “contradictions” which are attracted   form to a spiritual value. The absence transferred into visual terms, long
            to each other and create a new whole.  The human figure appeals to me   after it ceased to exist.  In both instances, when working with bronze
            as an adequate form for expressing these ideas.  Working with glass has   or glass, I apply a casting technique called “Lost Wax”.

            seLF, 2005 etcHing  40x50 in. /100x130 cm.           3 grACes, 2007 Bronze, cire perDUe                   TRENDS
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