I’m a painter. In my paintings, I combine elements from a wide range of times periods and cultures throughout history. I draw inspiration from the immediate reality of the present — what surrounds me right now. I used to process visual stimuli literally (clusters of things in a room, etc.), but today I create a visual database from these stimuli and compose the whole image in my head — it’s a fusion of what has been seen and the transformation of content from the world around me (from books and media; from travels to places including India and Rome; from proverbs, myths, storytelling, thoughts about sexuality, death, relationships, gods, etc.). I translate these perceptions into the visual language that I have gradually been creating. I always “dream” the image in advance. The details I work out during the creation phase. I try to maximize the space of the image. I admire the classic approach to painting technique and I use it in a postmodern way.

I paint on paper because it is inherently modest and intimate — yet perfect. I love the precision that its smooth surface and other qualities allow. I like that it has a much greater history and tradition than canvas, for example in China and Japan. I work mainly with the watercolor technique, which I have been investigating for 10 years.

I follow two levels of visual perception: From a distance, it works purely as abstraction with its own rhythm and space (such as outer space, a view of the night sky); close up, we see distinctive organisms composed of concrete elements (ornament as the building block of the image). These elements are arranged in a new “ecosystem”, which is an internalized reflection of the external world and a place for life — inhabited by beings (figures, animals), or just a soul that has eyes — a view (matter) — through which we identify. The eyes invite us into their world between dream and reality. The eyes tell stories.

The titles of the paintings are also an important guide — for example: Jaguar Stone Hand, Cucumber Time, The Submarine is an Upside-down Octopus, Sicilian Bride, Crazy Garden, I’m Standing at the Edge of My Mind, Requiem for a Mackerel, The Skull of Ganesha, The Spirit of the Ganges, Skull Celebration, Last Breath, Three Witches Gang, Criminal Dreams, Don’t Confuse Me With Your Dream, I’ll Blow the Blue from the Sky from My Nose for You.