The monochrome, diffuse areas in her paintings invite the viewer to pause. If you only glance quickly, you’ll see just a block of color. To truly perceive them, you have to stop whatever else is occupying your mind.

Where Marinka zoom's out in her monochrome paintings, in the stripe paintings she takes an opposite approach. The stripes, patterns, and structures are an intimate, almost obsessive focus on the smallest moment. They represent an attempt to grasp transience, to not only understand the fleeting nature of life but to embrace it. For it is in this repetition, in this simplicity, that comfort arises. A single stripe may seem insignificant, but within the larger composition, it finds its meaning.