My recent pictorial and sculptural works begin with active observations of nature through a daily practice of drawing. Forms are intuitively extracted and then stylized. The result is an unexpected assemblage that creates bodily, speculative painted spaces. These complex systems propose an alliance between the languages of abstraction and figuration. They reflect on notions of the opposite-opacity and transparency, interior and exterior, structure and improvisation, individuality and multiplicity, and the liminal zones between.
The ambiguous physicality of my paintings also evokes the curves of a phylactery, offering a reinterpretation of this graphic symbol. Just as the speech bubble allows the expression of illustrated characters, my work seeks to reaffirm the sensual language of the body and its participatory relationship with nature. The entities in the exhibition 'Under the Spell' offer a language that is contained within each work, but which also only exists in relation to the others. Each form is the fruit of the interaction and combination of forms that preceded it, an epiphytic plant forming a new organism with its host. The contours of the paintings encompass related shapes, like sets of words or cells. The vibrant colour palette invites an embodied, sensorial experience.
Ultimately, aesthetic experience dictates the composition and configuration of the works, foregrounding the ornamental as a bridge between consciousness and materiality. The cartouche motif is adopted and, like the speech bubble, is inserted inside and outside the edges of the painted surface, recentering the unbreakable link between the experiential body and the howling wind, the babbling brooks, and the birds emerging from the morning shadows, as frame and subject.