One Million Project issue 1 | Page 25

What themes do you pursue?
Happiness. Love. Sadness. Tragedy.

What’s your favourite art work?
The “Saint Jerome Writing” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, where Saint Jerome is absorbed in his translation of the Bible from Hebrew into Latin. This painting took my breath
away when I first saw it. It won me over forever, I guess. Caravaggio had a remarkable talent
in his style of painting; it is easily recognizable for its realism, but the composition - it’s beyond anything. The mysterious planes are focused directly into the viewer's space. It’s so
powerful.

Describe a real-life situation that inspired you?
We know that no two people see things exactly the same way. Ask ten people to describe the
same view having seen it at the same time in the same conditions and you will have ten distinct descriptions. I would say it’s applicable to everyday situations and it does not stop to
amaze me how different and unique we are.

Why art?
I want to somehow communicate my sense of the world - that way of understanding, engaging, experiencing the world - to somebody else. I want them to be transported into the
world that I have created with my paintings.

21
Copyright © 2016 by OMP Magazine Publishing