Sometimes, I really hate the fact that I have many projects going on simultaneously: it would be much easier to start and finish projects one by one. I have always worked in blasts, then having a break from a theme and revisit it later. As said before, I am getting into Jeanette Winterson lately, and in her introduction for "Oranges are not the Fruit" she writes the following:
"I don't really see the point of reading in straight lines. We don't think like that and we don't live like that. Our mental processes are closer to a maze than a motorway, every turning yields another turning, not symmetrical, not obvious."Winterson describes this novel as a spiral novel, where the action is happening in circles rather than in the linear form we are accustomed with in writing.
I can really connect with such thinking, and also reminds me of the Cut-Up technique which I have been applying in my work for years now. Having came across William Burroughs and his techniques through Kurt Cobain when I was a teen, I have always been fascinated by the uncontrolled element of cut up, where images are removed from their original dimension and combined, altered and placed in a new one to create something that can exists on it's own.
Artworks involving cut up are the most realistic of all works, because they reflect the way we think. We don't remember everything from a day, we remember what was most relevant for us, what we would need to know in order to have a better future...all these tiny elements are organized by our mind to create tailor-made reality. That is what I try to convey in my larger works, where I use a variety of sources which interests me and links them together, creating a new mindscape on canvas.
It is more than fulfilling showing my work to different people and all of them come with a valid interpretation of my work. I rarely explain my sources to the viewer, since I want the viewer to link the various references in a work by himself, building a personal relation with my works. Some, or most people are lazy or lack creativity, and may feel confused and lost in front of my works..they expect to play the viewer's stereotypical part and just view and critizise. I believe that's all passe, just like works and installations that try to involve the viewer through physical means. In these days of virtual reality where the use of the image is playing a major part in young people's life (getting to know someone through his/her photos on FB, expressing your personality thru reblogging etc), the interpretations and reaction towards the image are the way forward.
