This new work is the next chapter in shaping the visual lexicon for my body of work.

These are my newest series of compositions. I started conceiving in July 2016, titled Living a Life, inspired by the eminent artist Cy Twombly’s gestural work. In keeping with my artistic practice of combining different past styles into a single composition in order to bring out a subconscious, tacit dimension of a subject, this series unites Gestural Art, Op Art, Graffiti and collage.

The initial phase was the preparatory drawings and vision of an assemblage to be done at a later time, titled Sacred and Profane, that would include paintings, objects and origami. Here are some preparatory sketches.

The vision of the assemblage, plus envisioning how it might look like ultimately on the collector’s home-wall, gave way to the Living a Life series. The No.1 in the series depicts a scenario – a still from such a life. It is a painting of still-life that has all the marks of lives lived, and this is where I felt the intense need for gestural art as a layer on top of the interior. It is because of these intense needs from time-to-time to articulate a vision within, that I feel the compulsory obligation to juxtapose different art-styles together. In this way, my making of a composition is quite well-planned, organic, intellectual and philosophical, rather than impromptu expression and happy accidents.

The No.2 (below) uses the concept of a painting within a painting within a painting. Plus poems! No.2 is a qualifier of No.1, it is a painting in itself, so a noun, but an adjective as well of what came before.

The black marks of the father, or the red marks of the mother, or the green marks of the first child, or the blue marks of the baby, or the purple marks of the dog, that guest – their time spent together, their favorites, loves, hates, happiness, sorrows … a story of life on canvas – these pieces are all about that.