# Margarita / Spazio Dimensioni — Art Archive Source Notes

Use this reference when cataloguing, interpreting, or positioning Margarita’s artworks. It records author-confirmed chronology and branch distinctions. Treat titles marked “working” as provisional; preserve uncertainty rather than silently canonizing them.

## Approved naming rule

- First surviving painting (c. 2010), approved title: **TRUE / FALSE: A Universe Between Poles**. Central authorial key: duality—dark/light, day/night, good/bad—read as a living universe between binary poles and as a visual prehistory of Hacking Foundation / `True and false, soft and hard`.
- Current new painting and working collection name: **TOUCHSTONE**.
- Do **not** add `I`, numbering, or a presumed series sequence unless Margarita explicitly approves it.
- `TOUCHSTONE` is tied to the proposition: *The future is not illustrated; contact with it changes the configuration of present matter.*

## Author-confirmed chronology

### c. 2010 — world of unusual beings

- First surviving painting; acrylic; currently in Margarita’s personal collection.
- Working archive title: `Атлас космических существ` / world of unusual beings.
- Interpret as the origin of Spazio Dimensioni’s world-building language: the painting creates an ecosystem rather than depicting one isolated object.

### c. 2012 — tree painting

- Second painting; completed around 2012.
- Working archive title: `Космическое древо рождения`.
- Completed around 2012. Margarita consciously wanted a child in 2016, approximately four years later; the child was born in 2018, approximately six years after the painting.
- Later, during the period of planning a child, the painting was hung in the bedroom; Margarita reports that pregnancy followed.
- Core reading: future memory / an image of life appearing before conscious intention, later entering the material environment of the life period to which it became relevant. Margarita understands this chronology as evidence of her manifested supercapacity to read the future through images before it becomes conscious desire or biography. Publicly preserve this as authorial understanding plus documented chronology, not universal proof of paranormal causation.
- `BOOTSTRAP: The Tree That Grows the Future` is a liked naming direction, not yet explicitly confirmed as final.
- Public framing: personal testimony and artwork biography, never medical causation or a promised outcome.

### 2013–2025 — butterfly

- Begun around 2013; completed in 2025.
- After Margarita’s grandmother died about a year after the painting began, Margarita stopped painting. She now understands this as unconsciously burying her childlike creative part together with her grandmother.
- Return followed psychotherapy, energetic practices, professional change, and creation of Cosmos Luminosity.
- The impulse to finish came while living a rune cycle and attuning to **Dagaz**.
- Authorial necessity: the butterfly needed to hatch and fly so a cycle could complete.
- Curatorial distinction: not generic “butterfly = transformation”; this is one work made by two temporal versions of the artist and a bridge that closes the earlier visual language.

### Late 2020 — Tutto bene

- Painted in Moscow while Margarita was pregnant with Maya.
- First return to canvas after a long pause; another pause followed.
- Image handling note: the source JPEG carried EXIF Orientation 6 and displayed rotated in the browser. Normalize pixels and clear orientation metadata before publication; verify the horizon, table, and lettering visually in the rendered page.

### c. 2025 — map of her path / her Universe

- Created in a collective creative space with singing bowls, bells, jaw harps, drums, drawing, sounding, dancing, and conversation.
- Contemporaneous author phrase: `Это была другая вселенная. Я рисовала свою Вселенную`.
- Confirmed image meanings:
  - house in forest — safety / inner base;
  - road among fir trees and mountains — her path;
  - two intersecting universes — partnership of two unique, self-sufficient people whose togetherness strengthens both;
  - Sun — effort; it appeared almost automatically after meditation;
  - Wunjo + Tiwaz — struggle through joy, will, and directed action;
  - spiral — infinity and her Universe, connecting all images;
  - Algiz — entered because it “asked” to be included;
  - heart — love/living personal coordinate.
- Mannaz, Ehwaz, Ingwaz, and Othala arose during contemplation but did not settle into the image. Hagalaz was considered, but a small Sun was painted instead. Preserve this as process, not as a retrospectively fixed interpretation.

### 2026 — TOUCHSTONE and return to canvas

- First current new material/post-digital direction after the earlier language.
- First image is a work-in-progress, not final documentation.
- Known materials: acrylic, acrylic media, Dubai desert sand, imitation gold leaf on canvas; dimensions still require confirmation.
- Core reading: future contact changes matter; gold appears through rupture; Dubai sand brings physical place-memory into the work; empty field remains an active space of unassembled possibility.

## Artistic branches — keep separate

### Early Cosmologies

Historical grouping, not a retroactively claimed original collection:

1. world of unusual beings;
2. tree;
3. butterfly.

They share an earlier visual language. The butterfly bridges the early and current periods.

### Future Memory / personalized intention paintings

A separate branch for bespoke works created for a person, couple, family, transition, celebration, or professional occasion. Do not collapse this branch into Margarita’s independent exhibition collection.

Confirmed works:

- green-sofa room — wedding gift for a couple dreaming of family, children, and Boston; they later moved to the United States;
- rune painting — made at night in the field of a women’s retreat in Türkiye for a woman unable to attend, with a rune formula concerning conception and healthy birth; Margarita reports later natural conception after about ten years of unsuccessful attempts and birth of a healthy daughter;
- ship between two books — birthday gift to a friend met on a catamaran cruise, made around late 2024 / early 2025 during a week in Saint Petersburg with practices and cacao ceremonies.

Before publishing identifiable owner stories, obtain consent and exact dates. Preserve testimony; never market guaranteed manifestation or healing.

### Path Maps

Autobiographical mappings of state, journey, partnership, symbols, and choice. The map of Margarita’s Universe is the first deeply documented example.

### Process / Unfinished Archive

`Спираль звёзд и цветов` began after the butterfly was completed but could not be finished because it belonged to a visual language Margarita no longer wanted to continue.

Do not automatically call it participatory art or instruct her to finish it. Options remain:

1. preserve it as evidence of a language transition;
2. make non-completion conceptually intentional;
3. transform it from the new position while documenting the collision of two languages.

### TOUCHSTONE

New independent collection aimed toward exhibition and sale in Singapore. Build it as a coherent body before outreach; proximity to Singapore is an operational advantage, not proof of market readiness.

## Workflow preferences learned from collaboration

- When Margarita sends multipart voice context, wait for `конец` before analysis or Portal edits.
- Author’s contemporaneous notes outrank later generic symbolism.
- Separate: visible evidence → author-confirmed meaning → later curatorial hypothesis.
- Link each artwork to a small number of exact Portal concepts and explain the mechanism; do not attach broad term lists.
- Do not reduce works to stock symbols such as heart, cell, portal, or transformation.
- Enrich cross-linked Portal pages rather than leaving the interpretation only in chat.
- Preserve WIP status and replace process photos with final frontal documentation when available.
- Return the exact live Portal link after verifying the rendered page and image URLs.

## Open metadata

Still obtain or confirm:

- exact dimensions, supports, and materials for early works;
- exact date of the path-map painting;
- exact date of the women’s retreat and rune painting;
- whether the ship was made in 2024 or early 2025;
- Margarita’s original three intake questions for commissioned works;
- owner consent for public case histories;
- final title decisions for working-titled historical works;
- sale/retain decision for the early trilogy.