I have painted to get to know the world, to look into it through painting and so I have portrayed trees, stones, fruits, woods and more then, much to my surprise, I found something rather obvious: if I have contents I can place them in any receptacle be it a landscape or whatever; it's all there, at hand, magnificently laid out; it's all about picking and choosing and, through fragments of reality, we can speak about emotions, portray them on canvas and mirror ourselves to make sure we can pick out the superficiality of things.
Now I know why I am a figurative painter: being permanently stunned by the world, the light and the darkness, the beauty. I have painted and drawn, chewed and chewed again images until they were mine. Surprise has turned into the main content of my life, and there's no sun, sunset, rain or storm, laughter or crying, whisper or shout that will not leave a mark or fill my days.
Yes, surprise is the content and painting the tool by which I tell people about my life and the world I live in.

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