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When I make art, whatever my medium, I enter an internal
world of light and creativity, and I escape the external
world of shadow and destruction. While I am painting, I not
only live in this light-filled world, I create it. In this
sense, I have always made art for myself: to alleviate
my
own suffering and the painful memories of the war and
violence I witnessed, even as a child. Yet although this
work is therapeutic for me, my finished pieces also ask the
viewer to join me in experiencing these beautiful worlds,
and celebrating the triumph of light and color over
darkness.
I
paint with the same precision and techniques that
traditional artists use, but via the digital medium. I
became fascinated with digital technologies during my
work in computerindustry,
and I educated myself in the software that enabled me to
make art using this extraordinary new method.
Although I prefer this medium, I recognize that every visual
image, regardless of how it was made, is primarily a
message, a story to be told and interpreted.
My work tells the story of a world without darkness—a world
that the viewer longs to enter. My goal is to depict the
opposite of destruction: peace, order, love and light.
Although there is always an awareness of shadows in my art,
it is for the purpose of contrast only. In the same way that
I choose to focus on positive thoughts, I choose to feed
these thoughts with visual representations of beauty,
innocence and color: qualities that I believe are best
represented by the natural world and the female form. For
this reason, the three dominant subjects in my work are
women, nature and animals. These three entities have
suffered most at the hands of mankind’s greed, and I use
intense colors to redeem their suffering and capture their
sublime beauty.
Brilliant colors are a hallmark of my work. Color is a
language unto itself, and I use this language to speak to
the soul and calm the mind. Because every color is some
combination of pure darkness (black) and pure light (white),
the bold use of color in my pieces represents the way that
all experiences—good and bad—can combine to create something
beautiful.
Often, we have no choice in whether or not we are exposed
to suffering, but we all have a choice in how we respond to
suffering. When I was suffering, I was immersed in darkness,
always seeking light. Art has shown me that light. I choose
to make art and in this way, I choose to fight darkness and
pain.

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