I’m not crazy about painting from a photograph. I much prefer to stand in front of physical subject matter and try to catch the vibration that the real light is giving me. Of course, painting from reality is more difficult to organize at times and requires more attention to the circumstances rotating around the moment …
I’m not afraid of the future. I see the future as a kind of space and I think that is important because, as an artist, I can project and incorporate myself into that space. Art has the extraordinary privilege of bonding with the future in a very special way. If you consider, for example, trading …
I miss Paris. In the last 2 years, I have visited the city 3 times. I am attracted to it. In the past, I was fascinated by the culture, the museums, the paintings and important architecture that you can find in abundance. But recently, I have been captured by the ‘place’ of Paris: the corner …
If I deduce that the subject of what I paint lies within my ocular vision, then it becomes very easy to define what a ‘painted figure’ is. Any recognizable sign of the human body in a painting which can recreate the coherent memory of a person in my imagination should be enough to classify that …
I read an interesting explanation of ‘schemata’ in a book titled ‘Truth, Meaning, Experience’ by Anil Gupta. I had been introduced to the concept of schema while teaching English as a second language. Schema can be defined as an organized pattern of thought or behavior that distinguishes categories of information and the relationships among them …
Vision is manifestation showing much more than mere light. Light is not the action of contact on an object (a wavelength or temperature to be measured) but an action departing from within me. Light stimulates the imaginary inside of me. It speaks to me because it is already in me and I am in it. …
I think it is impossible to understand the soul and the body. There is something of a truth in these two concepts but I cannot reach the definition or the logic of it. It certainly cannot be reached in an operative way, that is, through in a ‘prospective’ way. The body is not simply the …
Painting does not necessarily evoke the tactical quality of the world but produces an existence to something invisible which can be believed. That which I see becomes the core of the vision which the painting evokes. I interrogate the world with my eyes in order to understand the nature of what it is. By using …
My eye sees the world and is driven by the need to produce a painting which is a Being in itself. The reality of a vision and the vision of an inner reality. The painting responds directly to this need through movements of the hand which produces it while my eye critically judges the inadequacies …
We can consider the enigma of the body. ‘Nature is on the inside.’ said Cezanne. Starting from the paintbrush through the blood of the sitter and finally to the recognized form on canvas – something ‘visible’ is elevated to a second power. The drawing or the painting becomes an image that is not a mere …