"My path into art was a winding one.
After years of self doubt and struggle I paved my way there by allowing to express myself in a most honest and vulnerable way. Every step and outlet has seen me becoming more fascinated with the human condition, appreciate the capacity and fragility of each of my mediums – paint and sculptural collage, space and light – and learn more about myself.
For me, portraiture is a direct reflection of personality – I makes connections between background texture and subconscious settings.
Each detail carries my own anxieties as well as that of my subject; fragmentation suggesting imperfection and change, tension and misconceptions, light indicating clarity, infinite possibilities, power and peace.

Travel Alone is a meditation on reassembly and transformation, an endless dance of chaos and order.
My anonymous subject strive for peace and integrity, simultaneously being reconstructed and polarised again and again.

And I believe on this path of reflecting on our personal truth we are lonely travellers"

Thanks to Mahdi Shirzadkhan who created this mesmerising video and sound design this concept becomes truly alive.

Original painting:
Travel Alone by Yulia Bas
38 x 46 cm ,
Oil on cardboard 3D collage mounted on wooden panel, 2022

3D motion Animation:
Mahdi Shirzadkhan (MSYDesign),
Rendering in Cinema 4D - Redshift,
Post production in After Effects - Final Cut Pro, Sound Design Adobe Audition,
Output Resolution 4000 x 4250 pixel,
H.264, MPEG-4 AAC