To be honest. Firstly I'm interested in creating an visual experience with the use of cryptic symbols, some intriqueing or provoking. But the most part of my work is about experience at it's firts glance, where familiarity leads to something unfamiliar. That shift is the magic that enhances my works, because it pushes the viewer to look and think deeper. The present subversive cultural influences in my work spans from aesthetical representations of Africa to Latin America, low art to gallery art and so forth. This complex shifting paradigm provides a complacency that suspends comfort while at the same time offer recognizable symbols and images. In this dynamic
tension the art and the viewer hopefully come together in an expanded
definition of culture and assumption. Also the fact that I need to be neurotic with relation to form, colour, symbols, or simply aesthetics plays an important role. It's my way of understanding how complex situations or systems function for somebody battling with anxiety.
Interestingly you mention magic as an enhancement to push the viewer closer or deeper in looking what their really see. Would you also say that today art in particular your work, could function as a vehicle to experience something fuandamental with regard to the spiritual world in a material sense?
I have always been interested in spirituality as something one experiences firstly in close connection with your body. This close connection should be in someway related to something metaphysical. Because materiality can't exist without the spiritual connations that creates harmony. Therefore colour is an important part of my work, for it evokes something.
Ok. Some artist's suffer tremendously with depressions, anxieties, tormentations or simply other forms of mental struggles. Where do you place yourself and the idea that insanity is something somehow accepted for being an artist?
Personally I have my struggles but their are not singular. Their are connected with what's happening on the social, political or cultural platform of the given society or simply on a universal level. I'm keen to understand and therefore evaluate my own existence with regard to the next person. Because I take that stand, does not qualify me to an extend to declare me insane or depressed. Besides if there is any form of insanity,its better I embrace it and turn it into something creative. That is the cure.
Now that you live in Norway with all the benefits, thus granting the possibility of simply just being in content with yourself on all levels, especially living a good life. Why do you seemed to be so negative?
It seems you question smells of the old western trick of paternalism. Off course I feels great living in Norway with almost everything I want. But the reality is that the rest of the world is not living like this. It's almost like a child living a palace with a golden crown on his head, banging on the walls and the whole world can hear the beautifull sounds, yet their cant do shit-just listen and listen until that noise is unbearable. Lastly pessimism is not a philosophy but a emotion that passes through and liberal capitalism hould be much more than clothes,houses,gadgets..etc.
Ok. Some artist's suffer tremendously with depressions, anxieties, tormentations or simply other forms of mental struggles. Where do you place yourself and the idea that insanity is something somehow accepted for being an artist?
Personally I have my struggles but their are not singular. Their are connected with what's happening on the social, political or cultural platform of the given society or simply on a universal level. I'm keen to understand and therefore evaluate my own existence with regard to the next person. Because I take that stand, does not qualify me to an extend to declare me insane or depressed. Besides if there is any form of insanity,its better I embrace it and turn it into something creative. That is the cure.
Now that you live in Norway with all the benefits, thus granting the possibility of simply just being in content with yourself on all levels, especially living a good life. Why do you seemed to be so negative?
It seems you question smells of the old western trick of paternalism. Off course I feels great living in Norway with almost everything I want. But the reality is that the rest of the world is not living like this. It's almost like a child living a palace with a golden crown on his head, banging on the walls and the whole world can hear the beautifull sounds, yet their cant do shit-just listen and listen until that noise is unbearable. Lastly pessimism is not a philosophy but a emotion that passes through and liberal capitalism hould be much more than clothes,houses,gadgets..etc.
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