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Medium format film photograph; multiple exposure negative (digital scan)

2023

Cambewell College of Art, South London 

My paintings serve as transcriptions of personal experience and reflections on primitive, modern and recent iconographies for making works that can transmit affective qualities and suggest narrative overtones. I view landscape as a fluid and yet traditional language that fosters the inherent ambiguity inherent in our shared world. Our common ground confronts us with ourselves and others through a sensuous, color and form coded language, giving way to our human need to interpret the traces we leave behind as charged vessels of meaning.

Most of my works have required sufficient engagement enough to respond to a single style, or a specific subject of interest individually. Identifying the various references and often traditional materials I use to make works that seem to stand in a blurred lapsus between abstraction and figuration, I search for the parameters that led me to my works in an apparent state of absence or inverted will. For me, painting allows for a process of play by which chance seems to feedback a self generating image making process relevant in Carl Jung’s active imagination. In this sense I use the creative process for personal inquiry, as well as a therapy for mental emancipation.

During intense periods of painting I’ve become observant of correlating signals which offer a certain meaning to my present situation. Searching for a state of being, I essentially look to relate with my surroundings and my own self as though it were an additional, guiding company. Like many others before me, I believe to have identified painting with landscape inasmuch as they offer the feeling of tracing previously uncharted territory in a physical as well as a in a symbolic sense. In this way, maneuvering across landscape through its geographic accidents involves making sense of the visible trail ahead while on the move.