MANIFESTO
« It even run the risk of seeing the material element crushed by the conceptual element. »
— Alois Riegl, Late Roman Art Industy (1901), speaking of modern art.
For decades,
art has spoken the language of universities.
The Academy has disappeared.
Intellectualization has taken its place.
Concepts are celebrated.
Content is exalted.
The viewer is told what to see, what to understand, what to feel.
But a work of art is not a mere vessel for ideas.
It is the material expression of the ineffable.
What matters is not the “what” — the subject, the content —
but the “how”:
how matter opens a passage
from the invisible to the visible.
My mediums are my gateways:
Tempera teaches me patience.
Encaustic opens me to tactile perception.
Pastel on abrasive ground celebrates spontaneity.
To paint
is to give body to what cannot be translated into words.