About the Work: Broken Bones.

The series Broken Bones is an attribute to my childhood. I was diagnosed with scoliosis at an age of eleven. The most strong feeling that I recall from that time is being afraid of my own body and what its capable of. Learning that an essential part of my body, my spine was distorted stroke a deep feeling of anguish, which left its presence to melancholy and acceptance over time. I vividly remember lying down in our sofa and thinking about my spine bending and twisting on its own. For all I knew, it was unstoppable and could keep getting worse. I felt broken and faulty as a child. 

These abstract works that I have created on the canvases are depictions of my inner child’s field of imaginary. They are later acquired expressions of the way I see foulness and defect: balanced and beautiful. 

The intention of my work is not to create a sense of familiarity in the audience, in fact, arousing a null feeling is what I’m after. My blurry and out of focus visuals generate a particular time interval of dissociation in between the audience and the work. Capturing such states of mind is essential for rejuvenation of energy field in my belief. By creating a sense of realignment in the mind and body of the viewer the work meets it’s objective. 


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