I aim to grasp invisible truth through consistent symbolism in my work. The most important symbol represents the intensely interconnected world through a reflective and responsive surface. The surface consists of damaged and deteriorating copper plating on glass that allows the environment enter the painting as well as shifting depth and colour depending on the viewer. The complicated, organic patterns represent the pockmarked Mother Earth, the embracing Universe and Time itself. As a contrast of the confusion, visible life is represented by the applied paint emerging in recognisable shapes and colours. This painting talks about the blind, crazy dance women are forced to perform from birth to death. The deafening music of our ever-changing hormones pushes and pulls us without our consent, willingness or pleasure until we collapse from exhaustion. We have no time to open our eyes, observe the world, contemplate who we are, what we want.
Last year I concieved, nurtured and lost a little son. Daniel died inside my body that was living a life of its own while I, as an ego, as a person never had any say in what happened. The painting is a cry for mercy seeing us, women, all mindlessly jerking in familiar but uncontrolled movements around the fire of life on Earth, through the Universe and Time.
This is an experimental piece for the Daniel series I am working on in memory of my son’s life.