( 2016 – present )
This body of work began while I was designing my home. The relationship between me and the home structure was felt. Was lived. As if I were inside one of my paintings.
From the outside, from the inside out, me and the empty space,...
I became an active part of the space as much as a passive one, as I experienced myself having total control over it while having no control at all.
What I sought with my living space, and continues with my artwork, is a kind of essential refined simplicity reduced to the extreme, understated and unassuming yet with active presence, dynamic possibility and quiet authority.
A breathing space for essence to emerge.
For this body of work, I use paper as a primary medium – gluing and pulling the paper back leaving marks which become the brushstrokes, the underlying structure of the painting, where agency and possibility engage each other in trust. The nicks, chips, bruises, scars and dents each add to their undiminished poise and strength of character. Imperfect and unpredictable, yet inevitable. They don’t shout, they whisper.
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