Rocky Mountains Impressions

In this work, I engage with ideas, concepts, nature, photography, and painting, revealing a personal expression of mind-body impressions. This is a part of a multi-layered photography project that included travelling, hiking, camping, and writing an extensive investigative journal. During the process, I was fully immersed in the present moment and global space, engaging all my senses and feeling deeply connected to nature. The night impression paintings and coating of vases are inspired by the structure and colours of rocks, in harmony with the sound of flowing water, and the melodic singing of birds. The inspiration also came from the beauty of flowers and plants, including those burnt to the core by wildfires, and the ever-changing sky. Furthermore, they are abstract paintings revealing a combination of the fragility and strength of human life and nature, and the sensed beauty of the universe. All is encompassed around the thoughts of exploring through art the dynamic relation between human and environment, and its consequences.

When I received the Roloff Beny Foundation Photographic Award in Fine Arts, I felt beyond grateful and honored. This award provided me with a great opportunity to explore fields in which I am profoundly interested. It gave me not only the means to complete the photographic project I intended to do, but a priceless impulse to go deeper into photography. I am lacking words to describe the feelings, because it is an internal energy that drives me to discover ideas and appreciate photography as fine art.