In my artistic practice, I create a world where reality is a shifting landscape, shaped by perception and memory.
The act of painting is not merely about capturing what is seen; quite the opposite: rather, it is the creation of another reality that exists solely through the subjective experiences of the painter and the viewer.
Painting becomes site-specific visual poetry where the visual language portrays reality as subjectively shaped circumstances based on an individual's symbiosis with their surroundings and its interpretation rather than an objective truth.
My work approach is shaped by the process of remembering: we tend to forget names and years, conversations, and even particularly important facts, though we might remember some specific details like sound, taste, smell, glance, touch, and mostly - how the past made us feel – particularly: not the feelings themselves, more them as a fact, we convert them in value – good or bad.
I capture subjectiveness, embodying domestic objects and environment in the same selective way that memory does: capturing seemingly unimportant details to the eye. At the same time, the generic information is left out of the picture.
These highly subjective experiences are the ones that form our perception of reality and shape our identity, values, and judgments.
My work approach is shaped by the process of remembering: we tend to forget names and years, conversations, and even particularly important facts, though we might remember some specific details like sound, taste, smell, glance, touch, and mostly - how the past made us feel – particularly: not the feelings themselves, more them as a fact, we convert them in value – good or bad.
I capture subjectiveness, embodying domestic objects and environment in the same selective way that memory does: capturing seemingly unimportant details to the eye. At the same time, the generic information is left out of the picture.
These highly subjective experiences are the ones that form our perception of reality and shape our identity, values, and judgments.
Embodying the world of perception, feeling, and subjectivity is a way to celebrate our personal existence while also being able to distance ourselves from the illusion that our perception presents for our assumption as an ontological reality.
Photography: Aleksejs Beļeckis
