The works on view are made
in the technique of paper collage,
using visual attributes of op art,
science fiction, and psychedelic
culture.
The tropes that can be recognized
in my works are built around
existential and cosmogonic
subjects. These include images
of infants and adults in the fetal
position, black holes
and wormholes, reverse evolution,
and the cosmic vacuum in which
geometric abstractions hang.
The set of images and details
for the collage in this case
is detached from popular culture.
There are no specific personalities,
events, or symbols of modern
history. Materials for the work
I find in old scholarly books
and journals, whose tone
of images remains neutral
and even detached.
The work ranges in size from
the classic poster size to miniature,
as if telescopically reduced
formats of 3x5cm.
These factors create a kind
of impenetrability, an airtightness
to my art. And it seems that
the shades of psychedelic
revelation and fear of the cosmos
are a consequence
not of the impossibility,
but of the desire to speak
of the transcendent.