Oil on Wood series

In 2022, I temporarily gave-up on my art installment ‘Emotional expression and scenography in paintings’ to focus on painting on raw wood planks and blank background. I then proceeded to delete a few images, rearrange some to make them feel like words in a bid to create somewhat of a narration. In the same vein as the ‘traffic accidents’ exhibition organized by the famous commissary Jean Hubert Martin at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2016, I use images that leave a deep impression on me daily to capture a perpetual flow of ideas and inspiration. I believe this entire process is a quest to find a certain order in the ever-chaotic space-time. This chaos creates a maze that becomes a perfect fit for that background provided by the natural grain of a raw wood plank, it gives the illusion of a slow-moving stream, a sense of vastness, poetry, a continuum in my art. 

My creative process is analogous to the one I was using to create a world when I was little. It is a mental space inspired by Michel Foucault’s thoughts in is heterotopia in 1976 as well as Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel. In my mind, I picture a bunch of images in tiny individual pockets, they are floating freely. I close them up and let them drift away in no particular order, thus creating an endless source of ideas, a sea of thoughts.