LandEscape Art Review Special Issue | Page 152

LandE scape

Mark McAfee Brown
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
between physical experience and the immateriality, you seem to refer to the necessity of going beyond symbolic strategies to examinate the relationship between reality and perception, but that we should focus on the nature of the medium in order to understand the way it offers a translation of reality. Do you agree with this analysis? Moreover, I would take this occasion to ask you if in your opinion, personal experience is absolutely in- dispensable as part of the creative process? Do you think that a creative process could be disconnected from direct experience?
In both of my image series featured here: Landscapes( Woodless Woodcuts) and NightBlooms, I am constructing visual realities that do not exist in the world as we normally perceive it. I fundamentally see that doing exactly that, is my job as an artist. I am as far from a documentary