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Painting:

I am one of those happy people who knows very well who she is and what she is
searching for.I am a painter, a dreamer, a creator of beauty, someone who lives
in-between: between the world in my head and the world that happens
around me every day.

Art is like breathing. I think it is good to attempt to work in different artistic media
and to blend them.
Art must inspire, make you feel better, make you smile, touch you deeply, speak
to your secrets, ask you about your taboos and fears, show you another world,
make you think, tell you that you are not alone, understand you,
or just be there to provoke you, even to seduce you.

There has always been good, amazing and also crappy,
horrible or just bad hobby art. I think it is a lot like humankind itself.
My biggest and most beautiful love could be hated or ugly in the
eyes of another person . But we are all humans and we all need love.
It is the same with art, it needs to be expressed, enjoyed, loved
or hated, free, but it has to awaken something in us.

About my paintings in general:

One of the main themes in my paintings  is the transformation of architecture
and space. The reality that my eyes perceive.
Tectonic dynamic - a rhythm in form. Flowing musical movement.
Delicate tactility; melting  borders.
The spaces I choose are sometimes known locations. I make them like a small
world with it’s own balance and rules of form with  continuous circling lines.
A game of warm and cold colours.
The human in this world is searching, asking, staring, a little bit dreamy,
consciously expecting, answering of our questions, speechless communication
with our thoughts. My protagonists  are people who I know and have been
impressed with. They are different, but in my paintings, all of them represent
a part of my character. They know what they are searching for. They always do
their best, they appreciate and enjoy the moment - the time which plays with us
as we do with snowballs. The staring eye, has so much to say.
Unexpected or exact, they find and reach their inner aim.

Art is a mirror – let’s change the reflection!

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About my new works: THE TIME ARROW

The new works have been inspired by quantum physics and the phenomenon of TIME

In Western cultures the time arrow represents a linear concept of time.
We remember the past, but not the future, or may be we do sometimes.
The psychological time arrow describes our subjective distinction between past
and future events. In many old cultures the word for tomorrow and yesterday is
the same, also kids have a problem to make a difference between today and tomorrow.

My work is a mixture of places and cultures, play and religion, an architecture of Jetlag
that searches for the true path. As a connecting read thread, a cup of tea serves as a
symbol of time. The cup as a symbol comes from SADO- the tea ceremony in Japan.
Tea ceremony is actually a wrong translation, the right one is the tea way or path.
The taste, intensity, quantity & warmth of the tea are never the same. It is a grate
example of enjoying and catching the moment. Like haiku poetry, it is only about the
present moment. The atoms are no things, they are only tendencies,so instead of
thinking of things we have to think of possibilities. They are all possibilities of
consciousness.The observer is the main connection with the reality, he is the
consciousness that drives the wheel.

Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

How straight you are standing has nothing to do with gravity,

but mostly how you cope with the wind!


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