“Pictures have a double reality — objects in their own right and representing quite different objects in a different space and time.”- Richard Gregory, British psychologist studied visual perception.
A picture is not only the image that it portrays. A painting is simultaneously an illusion of the real world and a physical object in itself.
I feel the need to disturb the flatness of my painting and challenge the canvas' traditional role of being just a surface to paint on. So, I tear holes in the canvas, darn damaged spots, add stitching and embroidery to it. I sew fragments of painting into the blank raw canvas. I include pieces of raw canvas in my finished work.
By combining this kind of "liberated" canvas with fragments of a conventional painting within a single composition, I strive again and again to collide the two components of any picture- its material basis and its illustrative content. I investigate the relationship between the two, observing how they cooperate or fight for control over the work.
In all this, I see an analogy for human's perception of reality and the act of “creating” the image of the present which accessible through our senses and existing knowledge. Perhaps my work is an attempt to find a visual metaphor for the conflict and harmony that exists between reality and our perception of reality ; the natural and created , the object and the image , and the artist's idea and its material embodiment.
