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The process of representing the body as a movement archive involves mixing earth pigments with vegetable oil to create paint. The mixture is then applied to every surface of my body. Since I work primarily on large scaled canvases spread out on the floor, there is enough space to swim across, performing a series of floorwork focusing on the body - its contractions, bends, rolls, and stretches. With the intention of arranging the body like a sculpture, carving the space around me, I attempt to create a non-linear composition that layers over each other. 

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The performative process hence eliminates the boundaries between the body and the ground we stand on by initiating an intimate ritual with pigments from the soil of the earth; reminding us that we are not a single tree in a forest but the entire forest in a tree. We are a part of the universe, rather than apart from it. 

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In this first series titled “MIRRORS”, I express in 22 paintings a journey of the human body as the starting point in relation to matter. The story is divided into 9 chapters, a numerological cycle of happenings. Each chapter’s title provides a guideline to explore a spiritual aspect of existence. Each image is an invitation to accept the forms that surface in the viewer’s mind’s eye. A mirror to each individual’s subconscious river. Much like a Rorschach test, each piece remains meaningless without its viewers’ perception of its seemingly abstract forms.