Leonardo da Vinci once took a note: “Canvas can live a very long time, bronze is everlasting, and enamel is eternal.” Five years ago, after long suffering, cracked enamel, burned fingers, when I finished my first work, I understood what da Vinci meant: I touched eternity with my fingers. Hundreds of years will pass, and anywhere in the world, wherever these pictures are, people will see these same colours, have the same feelings that I saw and had: the MP Kristine Poghosyan said at the opening of the exhibition titled “Enamel Eternity”.
“Kristine Poghosyan is the only one in Armenia and one of the few in the world, who works with a technique that has a history of about 3000 years,” the Chief of Staff, Secretary General Davit Arakelyan said congratulating the MP.
“Time has no power over enamel: neither water, nor soil, nor wind can harm it, except fire. Perhaps it is a pattern, because what is born in fire can be immortalized only in fire,” Christine Poghosyan mentions.
The craft of enamel has a history of more than 3000 years and is considered an eternal art, because jewelry, images, pictures made of enamel do not lose their appearance and are not subject to any type of corrosion.
“999 pure copper tin is processed, a layer of 999 pure gold is fixed on it, the image is collected with 0.2 mm thick wires of 999 pure silver. The finished image is filled with enamel powder and fired at 800 degrees in a muffle furnace. This process is repeated 8-13 times until the required colour and image is obtained. At the last stage, it is polished and processed with a diamond stone to obtain a glass shine,” the creative MP explained in detail.
It is difficult to separate from her works, but she also gives them as a gift. She gifted her works to the King of Jordan, Crown Prince of the UAE, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholic Patriarch of All Armenians Raphael Bedros 21, she has works exhibited in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bzommar.
“I am romantic by nature, and I hope that after hundreds of years, civilization will not disappear from wars. I hope that generations after hundreds of years, seeing these pictures, will understand that in the crazy, unstable digital 21st century, in the world of Armenia, there was a romantic and dreamy person who was so in love with art that he wanted to transfer the beauty of the era to eternity. Let the era not be remembered by world wars, let not the abnormal economic, political and war events remain in history, but let the succeeding generations see that we had art and knew how to love,” Kristine Poghosyan said.