Sublimage

Sublimage is a unique collage technique using glass as the support. Its characteristic seamless appearance and visual complexity is more than can be achieved with cut-and-paste collage. As well, images and bits of paper are ripped and torn from their sources and applied in a way that is far more immediate than cutting images from magazines ever allows… the result is that the act of making a sublimage has more in common with performative painting, with action painting, than with traditional forms of composition. Moreover, the gestural component of this activity is a consequence of an unmediated communication with subconscious realms. (2000)

“In the dark ambiguities of time we need finesse, not geometry, to find some stumbling way”.

William Desmond (Murdering Sleep, in The Tragic Discourse ed. R. Fotiade)

It is often proposed that a non-figurative artist renounces the tangible and descends into himself, preferring his inner fantasies to so-called external reality. However, it is a strict fidelity to the so-called real, to life as it is lived, that enables such an artist to dispose of models, of subjects demanding representation. Instead, the life that has been lived, touched, tasted, heard, remembered… passes through the artist and appears, on the other side, as art.