Mary Pavlova holding a large blue drawing of hands outdoors

Intentional Art • Limited Surface Editions • Language-based

Works exploring tension, surface, and attention.

For the ones who notice.

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Not everything is meant to be read instantly.
Attention is part of the work.

Wall work

Studies

Long-form investigations. These are where I push language until something shifts.

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Brown leather notebook with 'Art Attack' text on a textured surface

Physical objects

Artifacts

Objects that emerged from the work — things that wanted a body.

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Structure Studies ² Motion Studies ¹⁶ Disruption Studies ³

Language carries structure.

I test what happens when that structure is stretched, interrupted, or misaligned.
Some pieces stay on the wall.
Some turn into objects.

Mary Pavlova ╳ Calligraphic Artist

Language Tokens ² Language Volume ⁵ Language System ² Language Surface ¹

Blue and gold artistic illustration of a face with decorative elements on a blue surface.

Hi THERE,

I am artist exploring control and disruption within language.

Working with calligraphy as both structure and fracture, I create pieces where precision meets interference. Clean letterforms collide with distortion. Words dissolve into abstraction before re-emerging through attention.

Inspired by old Slavic scripts such as vyaz and skoropis, I reinterpret tradition through unconventional tools and gestural mark-making. My practice investigates how perception shifts when language resists immediacy.

Meaning is not delivered instantly. It is approached.

Each work exists between discipline and disruption — a boundary that invites the viewer to slow down and look again.

For the ones who notice.
Nothing obvious.

Mary Pavlova ╳ Calligraphic Artist