I am gathering different impressions, searching for highlights and I want to fix these moments of happiness – high consciousness moments when I feel inspiration. They are brought down on me like a wave or a fire, and they fill my every waking moment like love. I can’t help it and begin to draw spontaneously and quickly.
I use travelling, which is so easy nowadays, to find these moments of happiness to extend the ability to feel.
I think I see the same things in different countries, it appealed to my religious experience when I was a teenager, a kind of ritual, a sacred action, which gives me a feeling of existence inside something fantastic and insane. When I see allusions with Bible stories, I begin searching for a line in which I can express vitality and space. I want to feel a link between two, three, four figures or maybe focus on only one of them. Then I want to feel again that passion and belief, and I paint after these drawings.
I see myself as a poet of a moment, a spark. My first teacher had a golden watch and a chain and once he took it from his pocket, and I saw a sudden flash of gold. He said I have to work inside a flash. Afterwards I rejected the idea of slow drawing from nature because it brings me closer to a camera vision. I am searching for the clearance where all objects and phenomena discover their nature.
Inside a flash I see the idea of an object and I draw after this idea, but not from the object itself. I use this point as the beginning. I draw from the idea of life and work on the edge of image itself and narrative.
