mislyd

For as long as I can remember, I've been interested in painting, drawing, sculpting and photography.  The  emphasis in my work lies in the process of intuitively rearranging any  given image - mostly one of my photos, polaroids and digital - slowly  sculpting it into a deeply personal expression.  An important step is the use of various overlays of textures I love to create.  The  subject is mostly a face, often a self-portrait, which I then carefully  alter into an 'inner portrait' by letting it find its way through the  filters of my experiences. Another starting point are the tiny busts I sculpt, paint and photograph. A long series of inner portraits was born, that  function like a mirror in which the world as I see it is reflected. I  named this series 'Portraits of the Other Side'.

As I moved to the country side, I was inspired by the landscape and discovered how much I love to work with soft pastels.

                    Whether I look inside through my portraits or outside through my landscapes, I hope  to provoke emotions in the viewer to remind them that images possess  the power to create something new within us. Trivial things as well as  extraordinary ones influence us immensely each moment. Only something as  arbitrary as art can make us aware.