In recent years I have focused on paintings of vegetation and tangles. I wanted to capture a moment in a hide where the gaze goes out of the thicket towards a lighted, outdoor area. I am interested in the point of view in which the painting becomes a place to hide in, there is no single point of focus, and perhaps the point of view is not human, but of an animal passing through the thicket
The choice of hiding scenes allowed me to feel both physical and pictorial protection. To explore a less didactic and tight painting style, to lay down color without beautification following a mood and a momentary handprint. Emphasize the use of instincts, and lower defenses – the work on the thicket is without prior registration, and the interest in it for me is dealing with materiality, that is, dealing with the archeology of layers, scraping, roughness, loading, engraving, exposure, multiplication and formal overload. All of these produce coincidences and the emergence of forms from the subconscious.
