You often say you never project personal emotions onto the canvas and that it must remain a clean space. What do you mean?
I’m very careful about the space around me. Nothing unnecessary, and especially nothing foreign.
In my work, I try to be empty. I don’t paint in the usual sense—I create images and symbols that carry meanings, concepts, and energies.
If I filtered them through my own emotions or judgments, it would distort them.
That’s why silence is so important to me when I work.
I don’t listen to music or news. At most, rain or fire sounds.
If I choose to create something, it’s about reflecting the natural essence of energy or emotion—without distortion, without personal projection.
After all, everything might not be as it seems. ;)
⸻
What do you mean by “exploring the nature of emotional resources” in your art?
By emotional resources, I mean the internal sources of feeling—our capacity to experience and draw from emotions.
I believe it’s one of the most valuable resources.
In the end, much of life comes down to the pursuit of states, experiences, and sensations.
It’s a big topic, not for one conversation.
I don’t just paint “strength” or “detachment” as ideas.
I study energy itself, letting it speak through me.
I choose to be a channel for something greater than myself.
I’m drawn to exploring what our emotions are made of and how they arise and transform.
In my art, I aim not just to depict a feeling but to reach its core.
Each painting becomes an intuitive study.
⸻
You’ve said sometimes a painting remains unfinished for a long time. Why? How do you know when you’re ready to create it?
Sometimes you need to be physically and emotionally ready to create something important.
My first painting came from the desire to create something that would not just decorate a space, but feed it, strengthen it, transform it.
I wanted to paint inner strength—the quiet, steady kind that changes the space around it, even in silence.
The idea was there. The canvas prepared. Yet I couldn’t begin.
I stared at it for months, waiting.
Later I realized: sometimes you must grow into the energy you want to work with.
To live it. To be ready to bring it into form.
I have paintings that remain unfinished simply because I haven’t yet grown into them.
And yes, that first painting is still waiting. :)
⸻
You emphasize that you don’t want to impose emotions on the viewer. Why is that important to you?
I want people to be free in what they see.
Each person’s experience is unique, and the same image can evoke very different feelings.
I don’t want to limit that freedom by imposing meanings.
Sometimes people find something in my work; sometimes they don’t.
Both are good.
Art should allow for personal experience, not dictate it.
I know what’s on the canvas is alive.
Once a painting leaves the studio, it begins its own life.
All I ask is that my works be treated with care.
It’s both a request and a gentle warning. :)
From a conversation with a friend.