
After a long period of "fermentation" I finally realized what kind of art project I needed to create. I spent hours waiting for the perfect drop to appear on the macro pictures dedicated to water. I took it as my meditation time. I have been painting faces for more than twenty years, especially the eyes of strangers. It always seems like I was avoiding the subject that it was right under my nose for so long, maybe because it wasn't the right time to face it head-on. Like a macro lens if you are too close you can't see the whole figure in front of you. I am guessing this long road of painting unknown faces was an unconscious getaway to avoid remembering, an attempt for me to push everything inside. I was still able to see a glimmer of what really matters to me. I was carrying all that emotional baggage since the day my father was taken. The weight is/was always there like a huge rucksack on my back. Each day something or someone reminded me who and what was m...