All my pieces inhabit a mythical world – one that has its roots in the blank spaces of memory – spaces that I fill with mysticism and folklore.
By using the lens of memory, I get the freedom to play with recollections that cannot be accurately recalled, elevating the actual real-life moment to a higher significance, transcending the original experience that was lived, as if one was part of a mythical ceremony told long ago.
If time was a human, a myth would be something that happened in its youth. This is where the surreal and oftentimes humorous elements of my paintings get to thrive, juxtaposing the seriousness of the mythical and the gravity of a ceremony with the childish humour of a surprise-party and cuteness of sugary treats. I enjoy mixing folkloric symbols with party ornaments and snacks.
I want to keep the sincerity of a ceremony, but I also want to sprinkle elements of a party to show that a ceremony is also a celebration. By painting a world in which the mortar and building blocks are created by an imagined or recalled impression of myth and ceremonies, I aim to infuse the same life to my paintings, the way time and the inaccuracy of recollection has given my own memories an air of magical mysticism. This is the place in which all my paintings reside. Not a tangible place, but rather an imagined and recalled world.
All my pieces inhabit a mythical world – one that has its roots in the blank spaces of memory – spaces that I fill with mysticism and folklore.
By using the lens of memory, I get the freedom to play with recollections that cannot be accurately recalled, elevating the actual real-life moment to a higher significance, transcending the original experience that was lived, as if one was part of a mythical ceremony told long ago.
If time was a human, a myth would be something that happened in its youth. This is where the surreal and oftentimes humorous elements of my paintings get to thrive, juxtaposing the seriousness of the mythical and the gravity of a ceremony with the childish humour of a surprise-party and cuteness of sugary treats. I enjoy mixing folkloric symbols with party ornaments and snacks.
I want to keep the sincerity of a ceremony, but I also want to sprinkle elements of a party to show that a ceremony is also a celebration. By painting a world in which the mortar and building blocks are created by an imagined or recalled impression of myth and ceremonies, I aim to infuse the same life to my paintings, the way time and the inaccuracy of recollection has given my own memories an air of magical mysticism. This is the place in which all my paintings reside. Not a tangible place, but rather an imagined and recalled world.
