The principles that I draw from my personal life experiences surface in my artistic process and are incorporated as visual representations or conceptual ideas, which I further attempt to investigate and develop through studio practice.
A persistent scheme in my work gravitates around what is inherited and what is bestowed. In my view inherited means traditions, customs, given dogmas, conditioning, and values, all that contributed and made us what we are, and bestowed is our personal contribution that can be added to a particular cause, idea or endeavor. In between these two there is a period of constant challenge to understand the functions of the past as it is reflected in one’s identity and oikos, aind its ramifications that dictate present meaningful decisions.
The environment is the primary focus of my present studio and research work. The environment is contained within my body and feeds my mind, is all that I can see and all I cannot see. In my quest to understand the environment, I am discovering the relationship between built and authentic, human and “the other”, past and present, self and togetherness, all valid paradigms that define a complex world which offers countless choices. The environment offers the locum where I can reach out to others and bring nature into focus not as a built environment, but as a partner in sharing.
My studio methodology has been in a constant state of renewal by testing and incorporating standards presented by formalism, abstraction, instrumentalism and conceptualism. Understanding the limitations that painting presents to me as a medium, this past year I have experimented with installation work and new techniques such encaustic, foundry, photography; digital, and performance; my goal is to develop a comfortable methodology that allows easy navigation among concept, artwork and audience.
