MY THINKING
influence
I always had a passion for surreal art as I can display images that can’t be captured in real life. The amount of imagination and unconscious dreams allow me to create endless ideas with no boundaries. I like to use my dream journal to transform them from my subconscious into experimental art works.
I also like symbolism; ideas through symbols and emphasize the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes, and colors. The movement being at the forefront of modernism, and developed by abstract means to express psychological truth and the idea behind the physical world; such as dreams and visions. It is the emphasis on emotions, feelings, ideas, and subjectivity rather than realism.
SOMNIUM
This painting illustrates some of my recurrent dreams and nightmares during the past year (2017).
Many of the objects and themes are things I saw or elements that remind me of certain memories that resonated at the time when I experienced them; flowing mushrooms, a rabbit cookie jar, a bamboo dragonfly, a burning candle, love locks, a ceramic rose, an octopus head girl with a jacket made of human fat, tree trunks, a fragment of the Hellenic statue of Ariadne. They are all underlying messages from my unconscious mind and telling stories through movements of lines.
The painting’s inspiration and timeline is largely unplanned as each element in the illustration has been created after a particular dream that resonated with me. There were times I would paint for a few days while during other periods the board would rest untouched for many weeks.
Date created: 2017
Media: Acrylic on wood canvas
Size: 47" x 80"
Process of painting
CANVAS - ONE
TITLE 1. UNSPOKEN
Dreams can be a rich source of inner wisdom, I feel the best of my creative ideas occur when I sleep. Dream interpretations into the unconscious mind.
I always have vivid dreams and have been sketching/painting them down. Those dreams form the basis of this painting. This painting was inspired by actual dreams - July 2014, few months before I visited Barcelona.
Seven honey bees were playing and giggling while there was a big green bottle of dishwasher detergent that I squeezed pouring liquid on them. The green detergent turned to golden yellow honey while it covered the bees as they flew by... at the end the honey turned into caterpillar that filled with words of my thoughts.
Date created: 2015
Media: Acrylic on wood canvas
Size: 18" x 24"
CANVAS - TWO
TITLE 2. ENDLESS
This painting is based on my dream; a lonely fish in a deep black sea.
Date created: 2016 (unfinished)
Media: Acrylic on wood canvas
Size: 18" x 24"
CANVAS - THREE
TITLE 3. rooms
Sequence of nightmares; pain, stress, empathy, attachment and rejection.
Date created: 2013
Media: Acrylic on wood canvas
Size: 18" x 24"
WATER COLOR
TITLE - THE EYE
Based on the Golden Ratio rule as center of the heart, is found in the beauty of nature with balance and harmony in life and experiences.
Date created: 2001
Media: Water color on stone age printmaking paper
Size: 30" x 20"
WATERCOLOR, INK, PENCIL, MIX MEDIAS AND COLLAGE SKETCHBOOK
watercolor and color pens - MYOLOGY
Date: 2010
WATERCOLOR - DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
/ Left side /
I found many symbols in my unconscious mind that might mean similar things or connections to my surroundings of the past, present or even future. I am trying to understand these symbols, and interpret them.
This sketch was inspired and based by few actual dreams.
Date: 1998
INK - statue
/ Right side /
A quick ink sketch while I was in Mexico.
Date: 2002
INK, mix medias collage - forgotten
/ Left side /
To illustrate the problem of homelessness; express the struggle, loneliness, abandonment, regression...
Date: 2004
INK, mix medias collage - DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES.
/ Right side /
This sketch was based on a dream; no matter if I was inside or outside, upstairs or downstairs, I ran and ran till I fell down on the ground... I kept finding myself back to the same spot. I waited and waited in my dream for this nightmare to be over.
Date: 2004
pencil and watercolor - self portrait
/ Left side /
Date: 2015
INK with mix medias - SELF PORTRAIt
/ Right side /
Date: 2001
