EPHEM
We live in a time where images rush past us in seconds. We consume them faster than we can truly see them. This pace, the constant comparing, registering, and scrolling, has shaped, and sometimes numbed, my own way of seeing.
At some point, I began searching for a counterbalance, a form of presence not defined by speed but by attention. That search led me to meditation. At first, I was simply trying to find inner stillness, a way to balance myself against the visual overstimulation of our time. As an experiment, I started meditating with my eyes open.
I sat quietly, focused, completely in the moment, and suddenly something happened: I saw without recognizing. For a brief instant, what was before me lost its meaning, it was only color, form, and light. This accidental moment changed the way I perceive the world and became the foundation of my artistic practice.
Since then, I have been asking myself: What can we see when we let go of recognition? Or in other words: What reveals itself when we enter a state of free seeing, beyond habit and meaning? My artistic practice is an ongoing exploration of this question.
I work with everyday materials, glass, foil, fabric, paper, precisely because they are so clearly defined.
Yet under certain light, from a different angle or distance, they begin to lose their fixed meaning. Short, fleeting states appear in which they reveal something else, a kind of second reality.
I translate these moments onto large canvases, giving the fleeting a sense of time and space. Painting is the medium that comes closest to this way of seeing. Its slowness, its depth, and its physical presence allow for a perception that is meditative in nature.
The process itself becomes an exercise in conscious, free seeing, a practice of stillness and attention.
My work is both philosophy and practice, rooted in awareness. I am not fascinated by what I see, but by how seeing itself transforms what is seen. A small shift in light, focus, or perspective can completely change the reality of an object. With my paintings, I invite the viewer to approach this state, to the moment when meaning dissolves, and seeing becomes experience once again.
For me, that is where freedom begins, the freedom to rediscover and reshape the world, again and again.
