PAINTING

My paintings are concerned with nature and reflect its greatness, at the same time, its transience and fragility.

Following terms describe my painting practice:
geological processes, natural forces, tectonic changes; sand, volcanic ash and glass splinters as metaphor for transience; deserts, desert-similar or apocalyptic landscapes; shifts, fragmentation, erosion, drifting apart, movement, entropy, time, space, memory, history, fragility, vulnerability, passage, transition, changeability, light, shadows, illusion, chance, physicality; meditation, contemplation, concentration, engagement.
 

Making process:

Facilitation of the natural alchemy and interaction with the involved materials, simulation / imitation of natural processes, shifting, moving the surface and tilting, tipping the canvas with paint and sand, modelling, layering, revealing, covering, spraying, creating an illusion of 3-dimensionality; physical involvement, total experience, accident, chance and control; spontaneous, conscious; meditative, contemplative, concentrated.

INSTALLATION & SCULPTURE

Installations and sculptures reflect on the precarious relationship between culture and nature and deal with instability and vulnerability of human existence.

Following terms describe my installation / sculpture practice:
quasi architectural building methods; industrial / man-made materials, bricks and Perspex sheets, concrete, foam, residue of previous works, debris; displacement, dislocation, illusion, simulation; fragility, vulnerability, instability, precariousness, transience, finality, danger, absurdity  – meditation on the passage and the end of time.