Mental and social structures as well as experiencing the culture and as we see and experience it have often been themes I deal with in my art. I also believe that our personal experiences and private perceptions can acquire a more universal meaning. Also tension- the play- between rational and irrational, reality and fiction interests me. In my still lives and landscapes the scale is often obscure. Some images I make seem chosen randomly but the photograph tends to keep its relationships with the reality. This applies not only to the me and my experiences but also to all the viewers of my works. In addition it explores the importance of the present as well as time itself and its relativity. The past is just a memory and the future is a construction of the mind, and between these two is here and now, the only moment on which we have direct influence. The last but not least an important topic I deal with is climate change as nature and life itself on earth is threatened by global warming, rising of the sea level, drought and big storms that eventually lead us into major challenges. All these topics create a kind of meta-reality or simulation of current life situation. In the Painted Desert series, the photographs oscillate between the depiction of reality and illusion. Rather than being straightforward representations of the landscape, they are reflections on pictorial reality. Working within a reduced range of colour tones and basic geometric forms and lines, I alter the initial subjects in order to create a personal response to a common reality. These landscapes have an assortment of paint pulled across the page serves as a reminder to the audience how fragile these endangered environments are with the encroachment of human presence.

Pigment Ink Print, Acrylic Paint in sizes from 42 x 55 cm up to 150 x 190 cm.