psychotherapy & contemporary arts magazine
“It is actually in these moments where one expects infallible heroism I enjoy exploring mistakes or awkwardness. By exploring these qualities in the figures I portray there’s room for me to express my own anxieties or lack of certainty.” – Rebecca Munce
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“When I started working on the piece it suddenly struck me that Donald Trump is constantly distorting the truth in what he says and does. I decided to mirror all text on half of the painting and as a ball of lightning I realised that in the context of my work this was a revolution. Suddenly I could create a mirrored world, a false world. From that, MirrorLand was created…”
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“‘Failure’ is an opportunity I hadn’t thought of yet.”
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“I think I became more fearless facing negative emotions because I know through drawing, they will melt into the air and become color and pencil strokes that I can hug and keep.”
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“You really need failure to learn and kick back against. [In a world without failure] my art would be really similar, but perhaps more playful in subject, often larger, kinder to my hands and more considered. Maybe I’d live in America, too. That’s where the excess lies.”
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“My own time-related work is also made under the effect of the pandemic… It was a personal crisis for me, I started to fight that feeling by drawing a flower a day as a mark of time.”
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“I don’t make art as a form of escape – or as entertainment, but rather it is my way of really being in the world.”
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“I started these animated diary entries as a way to express my feelings, to put out what was in my head, to say things I have words for it yet. They were meant to be reflexive from the very first line.”
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“I try to keep ethical considerations out of my work. I even try to do the wrong thing at times simply to get the ball rolling…”
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“I understood that I am a person who strongly resists a pre-understanding of the world… paintings can always be the clue for this whole process.”
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“Complexity and convolution can often lead to a painting’s downfall but I tend to push things in that direction despite this… I often find that the more a composition teeters towards total collapse, the more exciting it becomes.”
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“More and more we know that the whole system is not going in the right direction… But sometimes such a serious subject deserves a little derision and humor.”
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