My artistic practice crosses over multiple, entwining paths among anxiety, courage, and the mystical while elaborating art as a methodology that enables the confrontation of existential fears, questions of the self and its limits, and relations to the unknown. The mystical experience is not an abstraction in my work; it's an encounter with the numinous, a presence that instills awe and terror. These are multilayered, complex experiences that at once are clear and uncertain, light and shadow. It is in these moments that I am aware of the ineffable forces that shape our lives, forces as overwhelming as they are liberating. This duality, this simultaneous sense of illumination and fear, constitutes the essence of the numinous: a presence drawing us toward it, yet confronting us with our deepest vulnerabilities. It is the confrontation with what lies beyond the boundaries of the self, where both liberation and annihilation appear to go together.
Anxiety, for me, is not just something that I avoid, but it is a transformative power. It follows when one confronts the infiniteness of options that exist out there and weighs the burden of responsibility, the "dizziness of freedom." Instead of suppressing or denying such anxiety, I allow it to be my stimulus for creativity. By creating, I externalize fears and doubts and make them generative elements of introspection and investigation.
It is in art that I make visible the tension between the numinous and the human condition. It's not an escape from the world but a deeper engagement with it. In this space, I seek meaning in places where it might seem absent or unreachable. I am under the influence of an effort to reframe the struggle with existence, not as something to avoid, but as a site of possibility where both personal and collective liberation can emerge from a deeper engagement of life's uncertainties.
Courage is what plays a very important role in this process. It is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to act confronting it. Every piece I create is an act of defiance, a stand of resilience towards the unknown. I use my work to invoke the courage to be, to push beyond the boundaries set by the self and society, and to let freedom emerge from this negotiation. Art becomes a space of personal and collective renewal where experiences can be considered on both an individual and shared level.
It is in these moments of creation that I try to foster conversation and contemplation of how we navigate, affect, and are affected by our relationship to the world: to both the living, breathing ecosystem that sustains us and to the ever-evolving cultural frameworks which inform our identities, beliefs, and actions.
I research the mystical dimensions of existence, documenting threshold spaces where the self dissolves and the sacred and mundane coexist. My multidisciplinary practice is a means to explore tension between the finite and infinite, the known and unknown, a space where transformation may emerge from chaos and uncertainty.
My work constantly evolves to map the navigation of anxiety, find strength in vulnerability, and open to the transformational possibility of the mystical. In so doing, I am negotiating my identity and relational/personal and collective anxieties. And finally, the numinous reveals itself, not a solution to suffering but an in-depth encounter with the most fundamental mysteries of life. Through the process of creation, I burn away the impurities of the ego and the distractions of the world. I discover a deeper connection to my true nature, a nature that is free, fluid, and ever-changing. The works, once completed, would then embody the integration of conscious and unconscious objects, as the finished pieces reflect the synthesis of various elements and tensions explored during the time of creation. The finished artworks become a symbol of internal reconciliation and growth.
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