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My favorite artists, Miro, Dali, Calder.

ARTIST STATEMENT 2008
My work is not an attempt to reproduce the visible, but to make the underlying meanings of things
visible.
There always remains, beyond the multiplicity of possible interpretations, something indefinable.
The world is full of contradictions. All events in our lives are connected.
The endless rotation of life and death are the nature of the universe. The evolution of our spirit is reflected by
the way we live our lives.
We are all as strong and fragile as a ceramic vases, which can be broken accidentally.
Often our lives can seem tragic and yet when we look back on our experiences, we find them comical.
To recognize how the rhythm of the natural elements reflect upon the mystery of opposites, I strive o
contemplate the harmony of black and white, fire and water, and cold and heat in search for the right
balance between them to compose my own music in ceramics.
The free spirit brings forth infinite imagination. Creating contemporary work in ceramics demands a
sensibility to reflect new ideas in a changing world creating individual symbols, which turns to an
universally communicable language.

My new series of works 'Point of View', urges us to investigate and re-evaluate our current approach to life, and our thinking of our future living. This makes space for new possibilities and gives new meanings to art-life and life-art.

I use mixed mediums, functionalities , spaces and categories. I combine ceramic pieces with painting, put tableware and chess set pieces on the canvas and the bare wall, hang pieces from the celling, project moving digital images on the mixed medium objects. these turn in their space, so changing the view of them.

Sometimes we live our life, like we play a game of chess. We are taught to play correctly and we learn new strategies in the hope of winning. For that, we need to learn all of the configurations, one step is not enough. All of the figures have their own character and task to do.

The human/physical world dynamic needs to change in order for us to reconnect with mother nature.
We need new concepts and meanings in our life.

We all have to think globally, not just about it's warming, but also regarding the connection to each other and to new possibilities.

We play our game of chess but we are all different individuals in the rapidly changing world, with nothing being only black and white, but an array of colors and tones.
We have to play together to be at peace with nature and all be the world-winner.