People
ask for an artist’s statement. I speak
pictures, not words.
Visual
language is like a foreign language. This is a different
world with a variety of symbols, meanings and tradition.
Interpretation
could be close but isn’t the same. Yet
words are
so powerful and in need.
I
hope my art can give something to people. Even a little moment
of joy or thought that crosses your mind brings sense to my
work,
the life I chose. I’m an
artist. I paint because I have to. I chose it
early, or rather it chose me.
It took most of my life. I sacrificed
many years by studying, searching and exploring arts and its
techniques.
Art
isn’t only about technique - that’s craft.
Art is about human
soul and mind expressed through technique. It’s about what we
can see with eyes, in eyes and beyond. Thoughts, emotions,
visions,
problems, questions etc.
This
is symbolic language. Like dreams we have to decode it.
Symbol
has many meanings rooted in tradition and culture and
that’s the beauty of it. There’s something we can
share yet can
give room for imagination and creativity - mine and yours. Yes,
I
invite you to the game. You, my viewer, it becomes your picture
with your meanings. Yet it still has its own meaning.
What’s
work of art for me?
It
contains three things: thought, emotion and technical skill.
That’s
my ideal. Whatever I paint I’ve been trying to compose all
together.
Most
of all I’m interested in the human being. His/her inside and
outside and everything around (in that order).
Beauty and its secrets.
Visible and invisible.
Container and content.
I
use objects mostly as symbols of thought and colors and texture
for emotions but not always. Creativity needs a lot of freedom.
Creativity
for me is searching, exploring, inventing, and reinventing.
I’m
traveling through life searching.
I
collect views, memories, dreams, thoughts, emotions, pain, and happiness.
I
use these ingredients, stir in my mind and I cook.
Like
most of us I’m asking and trying to find answers.
Where
I’m going, how to live, what matters, how to make it the best
I
can, why we are created and why we create; which world is real - the
spiritual
or physical or both and which is more important?
Is
it a dream we are dreaming or we are a dream.
Maybe....the
sepia picture in somebody’s box.