Mihai Paul
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
creatures we are capable of feeling similar feelings ; if we feel good and perpetuate love around us and good thoughts most times than not those in our life are inclined to do the same .
I believe the inner landscape is creating the outer one and in return the outer landscape is creating the inner one . They cannot do without the other because a feeling is trigered by something external if not in all cases , in most and everything we perceive outside of ourselves has attached to it an inner counterpart . And is not that one is rulling the other ; they are a perfect symbiosis of our existence . And indeed , because we evolve innerly , our emotions , values and everything else , the age we live in changes with us – like the clouds changing how the sky looks .
You allow an open reading , a great multiplicity of meanings : associative possibilities seems to play a crucial role in your pieces . How important is this degree of openness ?
I use art as a form of theraphy , bringing out things and feelings that are not unique in their nature , nor limited to my self . In order for my overcomming different difficult aspects of life , or better yet of embracing them , the degree of openess has to be at its maximum , otherwise there is some residue of that feeling left within that might spring back to its former power . “ Truth ” is part of that process - here I look at it no matter how hard and ugly it is , by doing so suffering for what I refused to suffer before , letting go of it and comming full circle into the light of it . I do not beat myself up though , as allowing myself to be wrong or secluded is part of the process . For this reason , this confict that I try to represent , people identify it with something within themselves that might need resolving . In viewing any work of art , ever one brings their own background to it – here is my opportunity to reach out to their inner self and connect with them , hopping to bring the understanding that they are not quite alone in their struggle and that beauty is the common ground where love can spring .
We would like to pose some questions about the balance established by colors and texture : we have really appreciated the vibrancy of thoughtful nuances that saturate your canvas and especially the way they suggest the idea of plasticity . How did you come about settling on your color palette ? And how much does your own psychological make-up determine the nuances of tones you decide to use in a piece and in particular , how do you develope a painting ’ s texture ?
Colour is one of the best representatives of my inner state when painting . If one would go through the trouble to observe my first piece , being governed by black , signifying the state I was in before accepting the nature of life and the leap that is from it to
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