1/ What inspires you?
Dawn and rain, Deep Space and the Human Brain. I m most inspired when I’m at my studio just before dusk and it‘s raining on my porch and gazing at the atarry nights in the desert.
2/ When are you most creative?
When Ted Barr is out of the studio, this is the reason I don’t sign my artworks by my name but with a symbol that represents the essence of my life and doings. Ted Barr is related to my ego, memories, fights, and agitation, I’m most creative when I am alone early morning in winter with no much light and noise around
3/ What does the ideal creative day look like for You?
I wake up around 4 AM each day and start with a meditation session, then I am writing till my family awakes, then the best would be to go to the studio, there is a great magic in creating something new each day
4/ What do you think is your most important work?
I really believe that my most important work is the one on the stool in my studio right now. next week I’ll think the same about the new canvas i’ll work on.
5/ What is creativity for you?
To find new ways of self-expression and share it with other human beings
6/ A person in a creative crisis — what would you advise them to do?
To meditate, to isolate in places with no destructions, and to let creativity emerge naturally. I never push myself to be creative, there are 3 states of mind for me in the studio:
There are days when I see, I wake up and I have a clear view of the object or subject I’m going to paint, I run to the studio and paint what I envisioned, I call those artworks ‘seen and found’
But there are times I arrive at my studio and I have no clue about what I am going to do, I sit on my dwelling chair, hoping something will emerge and appear on the canvas, there are times I wait for hours and nothing happens, I go home and the canvas remains white, but if something happens out of this state of mind I consider them as better works, I call this state ‘unseen and found’
There is a third state of mind in which I arrive at my studio and I feel completely lost, full of doubts, what I am doing here? Am I doing the right thing? Does it worth it? if something comes out of this state of mind I consider them my best works. I call this state of mind ‘lost and found’
7/ What artists do you aspire to. and is there a particular work that touches you deeply
Andrew Wyeth artwork ‘Christina’s World’ inspires me, I can spend my all visit at the MoMA in front of that masterpiece. A very small artwork but such powerful feelings it evokes.
8/ Can you describe a blade of grass blowing in the wind in a desolate field. with dark clouds and cold rain as a beautiful thing.?
I am full of awe from the slightest changes in nature, I can stare hours at the starry nights as on a blade of grass, desolated fields and black clouds are the perfect scenery of Edgar Allan Poe which I admire.
