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In the caves underneath the steep and narrow mountains the Buddhist monks protected caves that held a wealth of paintings, reliefs and sculptures, revealing to the trained eye an earlier Indian origin.
Traveling alone, artist Valentina Dubasky found in the caves hundreds of images to use in her work. In particular, she said, desert colors, mountains, caves, camel caravans, ruins, notations and writing came into her work.
Ancient shapes and totemic and fossil forms were not new to the artist; she’d been building a body of work around them for more than seven years. But Val Dubasky, RAAC’s artist-in-residence for the month of April, found that her journey along the old silk road transformed her paintings, just as everything that the artist sees ultimately does.
For this reason, said the artist, who lives and works in New York City, travel is a necessary part of her work and a part that she must make time for:
“Although I love New York City, I find myself drawn to great expanses,” Dubasky explained. “There are times that I just need to get away, and, of course, nature has tremendous importance to any artist.”
Like the primitive artist, Dubasky draws her shapes from nature. And her stay in Rappahannock, the artist explained,
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