HOLISTIC ART
My art derives directly from experience, is born of necessity. Art wasn't a choice, but a survival instinct which became means of survival. I started seriously practicing art when I was 16 years old and was first diagnosed with AVM given two years to live. Life, it seemed, had other plans.
At sixteen, facing the shadow of mortality, I became an object, a case study for the medical gaze. 47 surgeries over 27 years—a relentless battle against the bleedings. Through it all, art became my sanctuary, a way to paint the transcendent visions that flickered in the liminal spaces between life and death, born from operative traumas and brushes with the abyss.
After a nighttime haemorrhage I underwent a profound near-death experience (NDE) and yet a profound shift began. The darkness of depression and figurative representation gave way to an all-encompassing light, a lightness that now permeates my work, a testament to transformation. My art is my story, a spectrum of experiences and challenges, a reclaiming of power over a destiny that once seemed written in blood.
Each series—whether brushstrokes on canvas, sculpted forms, immersive installations, or words woven into stories—is a chronicle of my journey through treatment, a visceral echo of what my body and mind endure. They are not mere depictions, but living embodiments of the struggle, the resilience, the whispers of something more.
My practice seeks to capture the delicate connection between body, mind, and spirit, a yearning for harmony in the spaces between.
And now, the quest expands. A new series takes root, inspired by a hypnotherapy session, a glimpse into an intergalactic family. It revealed a truth: our bodies are not just vessels for living, but intricate technologies for healing, for journeying, for reaching beyond the confines of the physical.
