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ABOUT THE WORKS

Studying Medieval Art reveals to me the rich, full, and make a combination of many fragments, and the final
colorful mosaics and mosaic techniques used in Early consequence usually creates a new and different
Byzantine Art. Seeing the Gothic vitrages shows me “whole.”
the possibility of gathering small parts, making one
completely beautiful piece. From Antonio Gaudi, the In the first exhibition, “Homage to Gestalt Mosaic Art,”
twentieth century genius Spanish artist, I have learned the works were comprised mainly of broken china,
to make wild and free combinations, like those he glass, and a selection of decorative elements from a
made in Park Guell, Barcelona. All these influences range of materials that were carefully displaced on a
have helped me create my own special style. chosen object. “Cookies” are ceramic hand painted
cookies, baked in a ceramic oven, exactly like
In my works, I adopt the Gestalt theory: “The whole is homemade cookies. They come in different versions
more than its parts.” “Gestalt” is a German word and colors, and each one of them is unique. I have
meaning “a structure, a shape, a pattern.” It suggests combined them on a large wooden cookie in shapes
that understanding a structure as a whole depends on such as a star, heart, triangle, and other forms.
our ability to see all its parts, but the full
comprehension of the whole will always show us a The human cookie appears in various mediums:
richer structure than the simple combination of its painting, sculpture relief, and mosaic (as the famous
parts. My artworks are based on these principals. I “Ginger Bread Man”) in big and small forms and in

BROKEN

WOOD, CLAY
CLAY COLOR, CEMENT
10 X 21 X 36 CM
4 X 8 X 14 IN,

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