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Archaeology Of The Mind – Internal Landscapes
My current paintings are strongly influenced by my therapeutical work with clients. Similarities can be discovered in my intuitive approach to images that connects the mind to the spirit and the illusionistic effects I use to convey them. I find the subjects evolving from dreams and memories, and how one previous piece can transfer to the next. Like a journey, one painting leads to another and often when working in this manner (or series) I can accomplish a specific idea to its fullest. A challenging moment when I can say a series is complete, and the works can speak in their multiple existences. Most interesting for me is the exploration of internal landscapes.
Through imagery I am attempting to reveal hidden parts of the human mind and the unconscious. My specific interests are in landscapes and waterscapes. I initiate the feelings of waves, reflections, vast horizons, dark endless paths that lead nowhere in particular, but in the end come back to display a sense of calm. A manipulation in paint of varied weather conditions and the play of light, enables me to create an intended analogy between the mechanisms operating in the human mind. I achieve this exploration in a similar fashion through abstraction in my acrylic paintings. By using multiple layers of paint, distressing the flat plane, scraping and removing areas, I attempt to control the surface of the canvas till a story, or a type of visual dreamscape is developed.
Painting is often like dance, where I can react to the mood of the experience in the process of the work.
I create structures underneath the surface which are visible or slightly hidden to the eye, sometimes using collage elements, giving slight inclinations that might remind one of a surreal movie set or a stage play.
In my watercolors I remove paint, almost like discovering a positive out of the negative space. I developed a technique that allows me much freedom when I paint and often works best monochromatically. Throughout this process the land/waterscapes dashed with stones, buildings, skylines, bones/skull shapes appear, depicting forgotten or buried history of the outside world. But in the end, they are truly internal.
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