| Beaming with a theatrical, enchanted light, Ruzickova’s photographs look towards the skies, concentrating on the powerful presence of the sun. The beautiful, picturesque quality of the setting and rising suns sets a fairy tale-like air to all of her pieces. The overlay and transparency of some of the imagery over the rest gives these photographs a hazy, dreamy feel that begs a pardon to their nature as photographs and creates something seemingly more unreal than documentation.Depicting perfectly believable scenes, but refusing them a stable and consistent ground to rest on, the artist produces a scenario that could parallel the experience of memory. |  |
Beaming with a theatrical, enchanted light, Ruzickova’s photographs look towards the skies, concentrating on the powerful presence of the sun. The beautiful, picturesque quality of the setting and rising suns sets a fairy tale-like air to all of her pieces. The overlay and transparency of some of the imagery over the rest gives these photographs a hazy, dreamy feel that begs a pardon to their nature as photographs and creates something seemingly more unreal than documentation. Depicting perfectly believable scenes, but refusing them a stable and consistent ground to rest on, the artist produces a scenario that could parallel the experience of memory. Juxtaposing various landmarks and architecture with the sky, objects with landscape, the artist builds an encounter with the surreal that equivocates to a montage of flashbacks.
Straying Through Prague 1 is an example of a piece where Ruzickova’s technical skills as a photographer helped to accentuate the atmosphere and mood conveyed in her works. The crisp orange glow captured on the highlighted leaves of the trees stirs and excites. While fairly obvious that these are highlighted trees, there is also a visual resemblance to the burning of paper or leaves. So this beautiful sunrise or sunset that is immediately or firstly interpreted can later be contorted into a horrid occurrence of destruction. In many instances throughout her works, the artist uses this ambiguous presence of things to provoke curiosity and possibilities into the scenarios that she creates in her photos. These fill-in-the-blanks often come in the form of blackened silhouette. In the instance of her piece, Straying Through Prague 3, Ruzickova instills a sense of wonder through her inclusion of the silhouette of a mysterious figure upon a horse. Backing his presence is another silhouette, a regal temple or palace perhaps. Blacking out any identity of either, Ruzickova leaves this imagery to the viewer’s interpretation. Having these open slots, anonymity in figures and setting, refuting a chronology or present state, the work is able to speak on different levels and is able to play to the invention of many.
