A View From the Easel

This is the 349th installment of "A View From the Easel," a series showcasing artists' workspaces. This week, Yerevan-based artist Lilit Martirosyan shares her creative environment filled with the resonances of opera arias. Martirosyan has been working in her studio for around three and a half years. An average day begins at 8 am with sunlight streaming through her floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a checkered shadow on the floor for the next few hours before fading away.

She often spends morning hours in the studio, experimenting with various materials and techniques, from oil painting to installation art. Martirosyan's work spans across different media, and she prefers to focus solely on her art in her studio, free from distractions. She values the high ceilings, perfect cube shape, and large window of her industrial-era building studio that was once a silk factory.

While the nearby gold market and small factories contribute to the buzzing noise, she finds the studio to be a refreshing, clean space where she can start anew without the weight of past works. Her favorite local museum is the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, and she currently enjoys working with natural materials like wool and soil, creating installations that explore themes of land commodification and post-war traumas.