I always wanted to create a visual system of thoughts that would be far away from a verbal experience; a creative system where essential tactile sensations have priority over words, descriptions, and narrative. In this system, space and time become eternal dimensions, and the artist’s being integrates with them. In this system, minimal mark-making emphasizes limitless space and creates silence, which is omnipresent within this system.

Correlation among visual elements leads to abstract and cognitive categories that are self-sufficient and exist as separate entities. Words are needless, limiting and powerless to define the spatial dimensions of this system. They are not articulate and precise enough to speak about the sensations, which the system relies on.

Reducing visual elements in my early drawings and paintings, I became aware of the importance of a spatial dimension within pictorial surface. Through this process objects and representations were slowly replaced with an abstract and cognitive idea of space. Composing pure visual elements liberated the image from narrative, descriptive elements. Eventually, tactile sensations gained the priority at the time. 

Through the creation of art I wish to define the space that surrounds me. I chose an abstract approach and reduced visual forms as the most intuitive ways of unifying my ideas with the subject I intent to explain.  My early figurative studies as well as the long experience in representational drawings and paintings came to the surface as I formed a pictorially integral space with its own principles. The material world was left behind and became a starting, initiating point for further creations. Towards the creation of an artistic entity, personal expression reserves the primary role. The elements I compose in my drawings are driven by internal feelings and rhythms. Tactile values start to dominate over perceptive ones. In a sense, I become the medium–the conduit between the space around me and the pictorial one.

I devote myself to the complex cognition of the space, which seems completely endless and hard to reach. I contemplate its values; I listen to its pulse. I conjecture its omens and sense its structure and layers in my mind, slowly unifying and transforming these recognitions into a new creation. The drawing elements are simplified into essential sensations and thoughts.

The silent and infinite space in my paintings and drawings is an essential point from where all thoughts about the visual world are reflected. It contains surfaces, textures, and lines, built with expressive strokes, unrestrained energy and senses. These elements meet in harmonic order and separate again into destruction.

(Artist Statement, 2005)