Material: Wood.
Symbiosis
Most of my artwork, are about people. People being together. Holding each other. Looking at each other. Communicating. Sharing. With a precise feeling in their eyes or smile. Their bodies are often entwined in each other, not knowing whereone starts and where the other ends. It can be sensual, and at time erotic. It can be also disturbing. Faces can share the same eyes, or the same mouth. But the most important is the feeling of “addition”. What we add to our personalities. To our souls. The connection. We influence each other. We cannot stay untouched. We become a bit like the one we observe and feel, the one we touch, embrace, make love to. In my paintings it is what I am interested to reveal. The narrative is there, but not at the forefront. I wish to give the viewer the freedom to immerse him/herself into my emotional landscape and find resonance in it. That is why I called my visual universe,“SYMBIOSIS “. We constantly immerse ourselves in each other, day to day, from birth to our death. Often through empathy, but also through observance, conflicts and desire.
Symbiosis, interdependence, is at the heart of who we are as human beings, but in our modern age, a growing loneliness is spreading, due to many factors. Technology is only one of the causes. We have become victims of a culture of vanity. The selfie Culture. We live in a society plagued by narcissistic tendencies, where self-admiration has become a form of emotional masturbation, a hindrance to genuine connections and personal growth. The opposite of “ Symbiosis”. This isalso portrayed in my worLd
