Quarantine chronicles. April of 2020
Pavel Otdelnov. Pillow. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Every morning, looking at my pillow, I notice that the trace on it doesn't look like my portrait at all. But maybe it's my depersonalized portrait?
Pavel Otdelnov. Toilet bowl. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
When I'm leaning over the toilet bowl, I see my reflection in it. Once upon the times of my studying I painted my selfportrait this way. My professors were dissatisfied with it very much.
Pavel Otdelnov. Eggshell. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Pavel Otdelnov. Shower. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Every morning I see the most ridiculous reflection of myself in the stopper of the bottom plug.
Pavel Otdelnov. Overweight. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
I notice than I've put on a few kilograms. It's my personal 'record'.
Pavel Otdelnov. Curtain. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
It's necessary for me to be alone when I'm working. We have set rules with my family Every day I block my working area with a curtain. My wife and daughter need to call me by phone or send me a message to come in.
Pavel Otdelnov. Hair. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Because of all barbershops are closed at all, we've bought the hair clipper. We’ve cut hair to each over as shot as it possibile. The hair in the trash bin was looking terribile: as it was like a murder at our home.
Pavel Otdelnov. Eggshell. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Easter is the main religious holliday in Russia. Russian people paint eggs for this day. On the holliday they exchange their eggs with each other. I painted the 'Black square' on my egg. It's well known Malevich was an atheist and he hanged his 'Black squ
Pavel Otdelnov. Courrier. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
With the new rules courriers are sholud not enter inside the apartments. I'm looking at him through the peephole.
Pavel Otdelnov. Garages. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
I can see rows of garages from my window. They look very similar, and only the ventilation ducts bring variety into the monotonous rhythm.
Pavel Otdelnov. Scooter. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
To using scooter on the quarantine is equated to use private transport according to new rules. It seems to my it's unfaily, if I can not ride a scooter on the street. It's not dangerous for anybody.
Pavel Otdelnov. Walk. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Now I'm traveling with Google street view. But it gets boring fast. I realise different places look similar. I started to work on the series of paintings with the tentative name ‘Russian Nowhere’
Pavel Otdelnov. English lesson. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
I took two sessions of English lessons. It's very pleasant to talk with people from other countries. It makes me feel the world has no borders. Unfortunatly good tutors are expensive. My tutor raised her fee for the second time. Unfortunatelly I will hav
Pavel Otdelnov. Spark. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Pavel Otdelnov. Excursion. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
All respectable institutions every day make new events on Zoom. Here we with my wife on the virtual excursion tour of modern architecture in Rome. We've been there only recently but now it seems it was in the past life.
Pavel Otdelnov. Lamp. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Each evening I see my reflection in the table lamp. My room looks like a vaulted cave in the reflection.
Pavel Otdelnov. Bed. 2020. pencil on paper. 20x30
Each time I go to read a book before sleep. But usually it's hard to get far in reading. Unread biography of the well-known composer is less more interesting than the view of my feet on the bed.
