Beki Borman Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW exclusively to build up and scrape down layers. I t is an investigative process spent looking for the image through creation and destruction. As you have remarked once, you are passionate aboutart being accessible, and that your goal is to guide the viewers in discovering their own vision. How important is for you to address your audience to elaboratepersonal interpretations? In particular, is important for you to tell something that might walk the viewers through their visual experience? Beki Borman: I think my primary goal is an aesthetic one. I want to take viewers to an orchestrated world of color, shape, and texture. The landscape aspect adds a ground or vantage point for the viewer to enter from. Artists invent their own languages to describe their ivisual interpretation of the world. I hope that viewers will come to understand mine. With their unique sense of geometry, Waterways andPlains seem to unveilthe bridge between the real and the imagined, inviting the viewers to appreciate all the beauty that surrounds us. Scottish painter Peter Doig once remarked thateven the most realistic paintings are derived more from within the head than from what's out there in front of us, how do you consider the relationship between reality and imagination, playing within your artistic production?