Monoprints of original drawings
Sometimes, triggered by an impulse or a detail on an emerging work, I get overwhelmed with an urge to go back to my old paintings or sketches – there must be some kind of a continuity of thought, a thread linking past and present despite the evolution of the artistic style or themes or interests. Going back to these old artistic renderings is not simply diving into the past and nostalgia – it is rather finding the present in them. Going back to the future.
A continuity of self, reincarnated in ideas that take a new life each time we revisit them from the distance of time and experience.
This experiment was about giving a new life to some of my very old drawings surviving tumultuous ordeals over a 35-year span but, luckily, digitized a few years back. The new life is curious, lifted from a gel plate, a splash of gentle colors, airy and transparent. A modern medium, yet aged look. The mood is firmly determined by a drawing constellation, often surrealist, enhanced by a color background. Renaissance? Reincarnation? New life? One of many – past and present – linked through a seamless thread.
Left Brain Artists 