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my endeavor is to seek the meaning of life as well as that of
death, a personal quest while observing the immediate
My works in art touch upon several subjects that have occupied surroundings of life, various cultures, and the life cycle of
my thoughts in the past few years, but they all connect, one way nature.
or another, with the concept of “present” and “absent” side-by-
side. The main theme of the “present” and “absent” forms the
connecting link among the above-mentioned subjects as it is
Femininity is an area with strong ties to the essence of my omnipresent in our existence at the very same time. While
private life as a woman living in a Mediterranean milieu and the developing the technique applied in my work, I have come upon
forceful drive to investigate, to define, and reflect inner thoughts a realm of apparently “unimportant” and dimensionless items
of women, femininity, motherhood, and the place of women in that in their being create the “present,” a world that is seemingly
society. invisible, a world we are not aware of, but whose impact on our
lives equals in every respect the tangible world. The special
Ecology is the subject I got exposed to as a result of living in a technique I have developed has a fundamental material in a
community facing warlike circumstances and the irreversible horizontal position. I create the background by broad
damages of wars. Reacting to them and demonstrating against brushstrokes in diluted oil paints. The drawing emerges as a
them took place because of the irreversible damages to nature, result of using transparent colorless varnishes (trying to capture
but most of all to the ecology of the region and consequently to the effect of invisibility) poured onto the wet oils, resulting in a
the whole world. process of non-mingling with the color material. When I stop
Life and death: considering that death is an integral part of life, this process I create shapes reminiscent of microscopic

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