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Over the years, architecture has given me inspiration for my artwork. I felt attracted by particular places and spaces and I became very curious about them. As an artist, I was drawn to explore architecture extensively and to analyze its essence.
Parts of the visible world, in this case the urban environment of Boston, withdrawn from its original context, is recombined with the aid of montage to create new spaces. My examination of Boston architecture occurred by photography. From my explorations of the streets, facades, windows, passageways, outside and inside spaces, a more abstract language emerged to describe the visible in terms such as sequences, repetitions, linear structures, grid structures, refraction, intersections, formations, spatial proximity, distance, light, shadow, and reflections.
I tried to visualize these terms by using photography and through making very personal choices of motifs and decisions on a part, a detail or on a complete view. I make photocopies from a selection of photographs, transforming color into black, white and gray tones. Graphical elements become dominant, textured surfaces are rendered less precise and vague, structures simultaneously are formulated clearer and details of a photograph get enlarged. The reference to the reproductive character of the photograph disappears to a large extent.
Starting out from the large diversity of basic forms of Boston architecture, I have been recombining them into pictures with the aid of montage. In putting together the similar and contrasting structures of the photocopied collage components, I give spaces changing directions. Scales and perspectives and vanishing points change within one collage. The interaction with repeated and superimposing structures, interruptions, shifts, openings and passages reveal spatial illusions without any similarity to the spatial reality.
Overdrawing with graphite, black, white and gray colored pencil and overpainting with black and white oil paint emphasizes particular parts, refraction and linking within the collages. I inserted into recent collages parts of colored transparencies with structural references to the developing composition. Thus I found additional possibilities to achieve atmospheric spatial qualities: a diaphanous layer superimposes a field already occupied by architectural shapes. The surface of the transparency is reflecting the surrounding space.
One image after the other arose, with the aura of a mysterious and concentrated power based on different spaces existing simultaneously, illuminating the contrasting rhythms of each space.
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