Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW this article, has at once captured our attention for the way it de-constructs the idea of landscape, to unveil the connection between the act of painting and the aesthetics of natural world: when walking our readers through your usual setup and process, would you tell us how did you develop the idea of Chromascapes? Beki Borman: As is often the case, my work became more abstract with time. I have always been influenced by nature and have spent years creating paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel of landscapes. Before long I realized I care much more about composition and color play than representation. Hence, rather then being landscapes they seemed to me to be “color scapes” or “chromascapes” as I have come to call them. We have appreciated the intense and at the same timethoughtfulnuances that marks outGolden Dawn.With their apparent essentiality, your artworks are meticolously structured and marked out with unique combination betweenrigorous sense of geometryandprecise choice of tones, able to provide your works with recognizable visual identity. How does your ownpsychological make-updetermine the nuances of tones that you decide to include in your artworks and how do you develop your textures in order to achieve such unique results? Beki Borman: I have always worked quickly and intuitively. I use a painting knife almost