Nothingness
2025
Oil on canvas
Veronika Gramotina
33 × 41 cm
One late summer evening, I went to the lake near my home. It was an ordinary walk, and I expected to see familiar scenery. Instead, I saw a pier leading into fog instead of lake. I got paralyzed. There was no line between the sky and the water; wherever I looked, there was only nothingness. I peered into it, trying to recognize shapes and colors. I wasn't sure if I imagined traces of land and sunset, or if they were really there.
I felt like I was floating in that nothingness, dissolving into it. Like everything was nothing and nothing was everything. It was eternal loneliness and, at the same time, contentment and connection. I felt clarity and infinite calmness. In "Nothingness", I aimed to share that feeling of hypnotizing nothing - looking at you, paralyzing you, making you rethink your life.
I felt like I was floating in that nothingness, dissolving into it. Like everything was nothing and nothing was everything. It was eternal loneliness and, at the same time, contentment and connection. I felt clarity and infinite calmness. In "Nothingness", I aimed to share that feeling of hypnotizing nothing - looking at you, paralyzing you, making you rethink your life.
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Veronika Gramotina (b. 1995) is a Finland-based visual artist and co-founder of The Blue Verve, an art gallery in Helsinki's Design District. Born and raised in Russia with Estonian roots, she has lived, studied and worked in Finland for over a decade. Her artistic practice is anchored in nature, a sense of belonging, longing for connection and unspoken thoughts, rendered as half-remembered, half-magical, half-real. Since 2023, her work has been shown in solo and group shows across Helsinki, Tampere, and Turku.