"From the earliest times human beings and animals have coexisted in myths, legends and tales both as allies and enemies. Often different animals and a human mingle to create fantastic creatures. Sphinxes, dragons, trolls, sirens, cyclops, minotaurs, unicorns, creatures with and without horns - their list is countless. Man's connection with animals and nature is eternal yet at the same time a fragile one. This link is the edge on which we try to keep balance till now."
Roberts Diners
"The anthropoid animals or animal-like human beings seem
to have born in the darkest depths of our consciousness. Gazing at the
unusual light some of them find doubles in the poetical space of myths
while others do not have siblings at all, in the same way as they do not
have name. The spectator (the author being the first among them) is given
the chance to live Adam's part, to identify with his pre-logical thinking
where the ability for distinguishing between good and evil has not been
acquired yet, and give these mysterious creatures their own names thus
imparting them with experience and wisdom of our souls' life."
Anita Vanaga.
"Roberts Diners' worlds of images, which was available for viewing at his
personal exhibit The Secret Life of Humanimal Beings, calls to mind
totems and bestiaries of the past, combined truths of ancient civilizations
and early Christianity regarding the hidden nature of living beings. In
Roberts' art, alongside of meaning over the centuries, there are also beings
that have been introduced to the daylight for the first time and are only
beginning to acquire a meaning.
In the creative process, the artist follows his intuition and his subconsciousness;
he picks up the first impulse, a barely perceivable vibration, and his
hands embody it in wax; a unique carnival of colour and form is conjured."
The Unknown Direction of the Unknown Stream
Anita Vanaga, The art magazine "Māksla Plus" Nr2, 1998, Riga
