Artist Statement

It is easy to notice how one knows very little about oneself. Our emotional self-awareness tends to come unnoticed. We don’t understand triggers, behavioural patterns, how we actually feel or felt and what further awaits from that reasoning. There are so many emotions which tend to be unrecognised and described as a good or bad feeling. I explore and with time notice the challenge to understand the actual felt emotion and on top of that answer to oneself why am I feeling it?

Purely through this observation I challenge you to reason to what depth you know yourself. 

I try to understand the vision in my head. Before I complete the final piece I set my focus on what emotional play Im going to be working on. It’s almost like a meditation. I make sure of the right use of a colour palette. Some artworks need a break from my side, where I’ll make tests and try out various directions the painting can go towards however with the majority of pieces I simply go for it. The significant part of my work while I’m painting is tapping into that state of detachment of the final outcome and intuitively getting through the canvas, swatch by swatch and only at the end seeing the piece for what it has become. I see this as a process of trying to understand the internal feelings rather than thoughts. My pieces are heavily structured and usually have a bold and vivid presence to themselves which I find, accurately reflects my personal narrative. 

I imagine or take myself back to a situation and I analyse the emotions it brings up. I express myself through an abstract manner. Abstract art allows for free thought. It leaves space for the viewer to create something out of this world yet something so personal. Abstract art is abstract thinking. It allows you to depart from reality. It forces you to think outside of the box and build your own truth.  Once I examine the entire scene in my mind I characterise it in my work through squares, rectangles and cubes. 

This idea initiated from a personal motif, in other words a universe of infinite cubes. I’ve been drawn to squares from a very young age. The reason is abstruse. I’ll allow myself to stick with the argument mentioned before; abstract art is abstract thinking. To elaborate further, each cube represents a set of emotions which patently have an effect on how one feels. All cubes change under different types of circumstances. Each cube affects cubes around them. So when you change your surrounding, change your mood, your cube ‘universe’ changes. In that moment the  emotional surrounding you created and are used to is altered therefore you don’t understand it, it’s unfamiliar. In order to once again fathom your reality however, that internal investigation must take place.

There is so much which I don’t understand about peoples and my own behaviours. The are so many aspects which change a personality. So many details that have an impact on our reactions and the way we are. Through my art I wish to initiate some sort of an order and deeper understand of who I and we are and why so?