THE SPIRIT OF CREATION
God created man from the dust of the earth. After he was pleased with his form he breathed life into him.
He literally breathed into his nostrils and shared his own spirit with him. Adam became a living being. The artist likewise. He molds the clay, he paints on the empty canvas, he writes on a paper, he plays the notes from the score. This is the raw form of creation. It becomes ART when the artist breathes his own spirit into his work. The sculpture, the painting, the poem, the music then becomes a living being.

THE INDIVIDUAL AND HIS/HER RELATION TO OTHERS
My current series of paintings include portraits of great artists, musicians, writers, composers, poets.
I usually paint only one person per painting. The reason for this is that I would like the focus to be on the individual`s soul and state of mind. Action can take the focus on itself and away from the individual.
I think that people are behaving in the most
natural manner when they are by themselves and this is the state of mind that I want to capture them in.

We are all separate planets, a whole unique world, but we are all in the same galaxy for the better or for the worse. So different but so much the same.
We can`t totally separate one planet from the other. As each planet`s magnetic field affects the movement of its surrounding planets, thus also everything we do or do not do affect the other people around us, that effects other people around them, etc..
So as I create these separate planets I actually end up with my own little galaxy.

THE TRIPLE REFLECTION
For me painting is communication and self expression without words but I want people to feel free to interpret my art as they will. They can see themselves in them.
Just like giving birth to a child, it is inside you and it is your own flesh and blood but after you give birth, the child will start to live his/her own life.

Art is giving and receiving. It is like a triple reflection in which the artist reflects his/her subject which also reflects the artist and it
reflects the viewers who are looking at the painting and can identify with it.

For me it is also a psychological study -as exciting as an expedition in unknown lands-
to make a thorough research on my subject`s personality, to dig as deep as possible into their art and to live and breathe who they are in order to bring out the most realistic expression and reflection of their inner and outer being as well as -consciously or not- my own.
We achieve the best results in art when we totally identify ourselves with what we want to express.

CREATION AS A REDEMPTIVE FORCE
 I hate all the destruction and murder and abuse. If for every act of destruction there can be an act of creation I want to take part in the act of creation, as if it was a redemptive force that balances out destruction.

CROSSROADS

When I stand before an blank canvas with my brush, I am standing in the crossroad of thousands of roads. The road that I end up taking testifies of who I am. Where this road ends up testifies of how life itself flows and changes, changing me as well. If I consciously chose another road, would that also testify of me? Indeed, the thousand faces of „me” is reflected in the crossroads.
Each moment is such a crossroad. There are so many choices but based on WHAT we make our decision is, again, a testimony of us.
I used to go to school the same way every morning. I never even thought of going another way. At the corner I automatically turned right...until one day I turned left. The wind of freedom carried me away. I felt powerful and strong. How wonderful is freedom! When I turned left at the corner in front of the school that day all my life took a turn. Who knows where I would be now if I turned right as usual? (I might have become a teacher in that school instead of being a high school dropout artist, haha).
When we think about the right choices are we trying to figure out the mind of a Higher Intelligence? Can we manipulate what was meant to be? Does the outcome of my painting really testify of me or does it testify of a Whole that my painting is and always was a necessery part of?
Or at that point right before the crossroad where there are millions of roads, maybe all of those roads are taken, each one in a different reality.

I have to add that when an artist stands in front of a canvas it is because he/she wants to express something. His/her thoughts, feelings, desires, ideals of beauty. This cuts down on the number of roads. Now, the painter who is a visual thinker has an approximate visual image in his/her brain of what s/he wants to express. As we translate different languages, so does the painter when s/he paints, translating the things in his/her soul to a visually comprehensible language. The composer and the poet is also translating, each into a different language, their own unique language, in their own way to a completely new yet still comprehensible universal language of humanity.