“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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psychotherapy & contemporary arts magazine
“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.”
Read More“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.”
Read More“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.”
Read More“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…”
Read More“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.”
Read More“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.”
Read More“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.”
Read More“I’ve been slowly working on a series focusing on folks reaching enlightenment in Walmart… The subjects are like the Buddhist image of the lotus which rises from muddy dirty waters without a speck of dust adhering to it as it proceeds to bloom pristine.”
Read More“I was thinking about what it means to be lost but still know where you are; am I emotionally lost, does being lost imply distance? Is the tool I’m using the find my way actually making me more lost?”
Read More“I genuinely enjoy noticing something like weeds growing through the paint of a double yellow line on the road – these beautiful, almost poetic details are everywhere and are strangely uplifting and reassuring if you take time to see them.”
Read More“I realized my art opened some personal doors that connected me with my past emotions and that questioned me… And that meant a big healing process for me.”
Read More“To be unapologetic as an artist is to truly explore things that you feel very personal to and not really care what anyone else thinks… In terms of what did it take? A lot of life experience and therapy haha!”
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