Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW collages that can be viewed from different sides, so when i get bored, i turn collage upside down and voila - new image, new visions, new mood. I know that my art isnt for a regular viewer, i’m not making commercial art pieces, it’s more intellectual and honest, like a diary. I prefer to stay on the verge of rawness and marginal beauty creating my own dystopian magic. I like when viewers participate in my art by noticing those symbols, deciphering my personal “codes”, putting together mental puzzles and finding themselves in my creations, also producing dialogues and even inspiring them for their own projects and lives. This is why i am a psycho muse ;) although rejections and criticism are much harder to swallow, but not impossible. Imbued with deep personal and psychological narrative drive, your works seem to be inspired by direct experience: how important was for you to createa personal work, about a something that directly touch yourself and that you know a lot about? It just comes naturally, i dont even have to think about it. I follow my instinct, similar to the survival instinct or self-preservation. I understood this after taking a break from art for several years. It was a moment when i though that if i’m not gonna do photography then i wont do art at all (after uni depression kicked in). Especially when i worked for a couple of years in a newspaper as a photo reporter, that totally killed my creative enthusiasm. I wasn't enjoying earning money through photography that wasn’t artistic. So i quit, and went into the restaurant/bar business, i tried waitressing, bartending, managing club, and barista. But after a while it brought
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