Statement
As you can see from my portfolio, I have developed strong skills in many areas; I was working at different universities as a visiting professor and on many different projects including artistic (painting, drawing, photography, video, performance, conceptual), research (visual communication, verbal communication, mythology and symbols, consciousness, human perception and behaviour) and commercial (illustrations, book design, corporate identities, web design, packaging). I live in a country so small that I had to develop various skills to be able to survive and to work professionally on different visual media projects. It is possible to work in just one field but I was very curious and wanted to understand all facets of visual communication. In my personal research I was expanding my knowledge of different fields which enabled me to get a much broader and complete understanding of Art as a whole, seeing the interconnectedness between all its streams. I am therefore capable of immediately varying the teaching skills required to work with different kind of pupils. In my past lectures I was able see that this was a privilege for my students, because I know I have to balance their needs and skills in order to maximise their personal visual expression. I may say I work holistically.
I am working on my personal research in the field of visual communication in connection to our consciousness and creativity. I am incorporating knowledge of my personal research in my lectures and in my art work and I am writing a book about my conclusions just now. Good communication is the base of our reality or better said a creation of reality. Here are a few sentences from the beginning of my usual workshops in Creative Visual Communication.
“When we are creative, we are uninhibited and therefore see beyond reality. We soon realise that we are the makers of reality with our attitude and communication. Consciously or not, we create reality on the fly. Artists use both ways but are freer when they are conscious of the creation process. It is this awareness and lack of personal involvement that make the difference between an amateur and an artist. However, in order to understand what we do, we have to understand how we do it. Our workshop raises awareness of the four levels of experiencing art that leads to creativity. ”
