Artist Statement
 
My work moves in the space between figuration and abstraction. By reducing to the essential, I open visual worlds in which the visible and the invisible touch each other. The figures that arise there are less bodies than states: fragile, free beings that detach themselves from the boundaries of reality and embody the unboundness of the spirit.
 
A central, often quiet component of my creation is the soul. It appears not as a motif, but as an atmosphere—in the tenderness of the lines, in the dissolution of contours, in the hovering of my figures between presence and rapture. These beings are manifestations of inner movements: memories, dreams, transitions. Their hovering lingers in the indeterminate and invites one to feel one's own inner resonance.
 
Transience and perception form the core of my engagement. The blurred edges, the layers and dissolutions create spaces in which the familiar can be lost and new meanings can arise. In the unfocused, the fragility of memory reveals itself—and at the same time a moment of quiet strength.
 
Material and technique carry this thought further. Tempera on a chalk ground, the play of vivid colors with fine nuances, as well as layers of wax, produce a depth reminiscent of soulful landscapes: layer upon layer, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden. These surfaces become poetic resonance spaces in which time, feeling, and imagination flow into one another.
 
My art understands itself as a dialogue between reality and the inner world. It opens a Zwischenraum—a space where fantasy and experience, body and mind, clarity and mystery merge. In this state of suspension, a quiet invitation arises to encounter one's own soul movement.

 

 

 

 

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