Just after beginning my sculpture studies, I got pregnant during the fourth semester.
I started drawing at home — ink on canvas — while attending only the main university classes.
Eventually, I shifted from sculpture to ceramics, drawn in by a professor whose work around ornament spoke to something in me.
My early visual language was shaped through the surreal and the sensual:
I combined images from porn and high-end interiors into strange, sexual dreamscapes.
The result was a kind of ornamental eroticism — patterns and bodies melting into each other, desire framed in form.
I divorced and stopped painting. Instead explored Sexuality, Death and Art through Bodywork, Shibari and diverse psychological studies.
Only 2019 I began dedicating myself to painting again.
Living between countries and bodies and all sorts of „isms“, trying to keep it together and at the same time feeling the constant pressure to take a stand.
Tough love.
Nevertheless here I am, still painting, still being a mother, still working with massage. All of it, my art, my massage, my approach to people, to my children, my friends, to myself, to life, went through an intense and disturbing process that hasn’t quite found its resolution yet. Hoping for love to grow in and around me and to let it show in my work and my relationship with the World.
I call myself a surrealistic mixed media artist, or accepted that title, just because I don’t know a better term to define what I do. In my perception there is a social aspect in my work also that cannot be denied. Also the connecting part of it, through my travels, the different languages, the abundance in different financial, social and cultural frames in which the people I get to meet move and define themselves through, makes me a sort of a traveller between Worlds, always trying to find the connection point, the similarities in which love and understanding are the easiest to flow and always of course, weaving all of this differences and similarities into a bigger picture and finding connections in color and form and material in my artwork. As David Lynch heard someone talking about a painter, thinking the guy was talking about a house painter but then heard he calling him a „fine art painter“, David knew he wanted to be a painter as well. Maybe also a stage painter.
If life is a stage, then all of it is also a performance. I guess in acting I have become a kind of a bystander, overwhelmed by the immensity of characters and expressions in art, politics, health and wealth, literature and music in this world.
As time goes by, the need for this exchange with the world grows, but also the need for peace and quiet and integration time in nature and with trusted ones and soulmates. And to extend this conversation within myself in my artwork. Still searching for something that I cannot name yet but am very sure it exists. And for intimate and tender moments with my soul and hopefully to meet these and other emotions in others as well. To find the sweetness of ‚flow‘.
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Love,
Julia