I explore the unmanifested in my work.

Creation of images in a psychological level appealing to memories and past experiences, in which once we “discover an image on the clouds”. As when we were kids we fix with that image until it dissipates. In the case of my work this images stay in the painting creating an intimate relation with the spectator and the piece, also the perspective and the distance create new links to this perception. 

The way to approach and observe my work also is engaging actively for example thinking the background as negative space in which it becomes part of a bigger picture. Therefore intimacy and grow created with interaction with the piece.

Apparently in random chaos and spontaneous bursts of geometrical shapes, specs, pieces and parts, I create my compositions with attention to detail and thus offering the feeling of randomness, but knowing that every piece part and particle have a special place and position exactly as I wanted and planned it.

Among other things the idea of prisoners cinema, in which the eye create images on the visual cortex and is perceived as a "light show" of various colors that appear out of the darkness, also known as visual hallucinations.
In science Phosphene is the phenomenon of seeing light without it actually entering the eye.
Digging behind the surface of the process and exploring the construction of images that are created in our life experience, completing the viewing with the information we have in our mind.

Exploring painting in an archeological sense, discovering layers that compose it. Utilizing the pieces in a reversible way, by deconstructing and fragmenting to create a residual image (an afterimage) that conveys dynamically an intention. 
Acrylic is the medium that best fits to expresses my concept. However, I also work with colored pencils, pastels, pens and markers, or what I find available. I have always been a collector of collections. I collect remnants of paint and classify them, knowing that at a certain point in my career they will be involved in my creation. I rely on the process of adding, removing and altering the surface.

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