Artist Statement I consider it a gift when you are given the means to express yourself and the biggest prize is that your work can evoke an emotional response from a viewer. I was born and grew up in a country with a thousand years of ancient history. A country of ancient temples and medieval churches nestled on top of mountains and scattered all over the land, the country of small villages lost in seemingly eternal fog and forgotten narrow roads crisscrossing the mountains, the people with endless hospitality and hard life. The country called Armenia. The country's particular palette of colours, the curved shapes of its mountains, the crisp air of the highlands and the haze over the plains shaped my vision and continue to influence my work today. For me it is a vision based on accumulated life experiences and knowledge, an exploration of Elements, Light and Impression; the real voyage of discovery through geometry with ideas of zen - the familiar seen from an unexpected angle - creates a completely original composition where simple objects become powerful graphic statements. It is an exploration of Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism in photography, visualization of endless versions of reality, the mystery of space, lines, fragments, and colour. Most importantly it is a quest for light that creates a metamorphosis of the place where things don’t exist. As an artist, the biggest challenge is to overcome the superficial power of the subject, to break through the tyranny of the obvious. We see what we are encouraged to see. I strive to see past the superficial dictate of our cognition; to cast away the illusion of the mundane; to break away from the accompanying vision of the routine; to unite the polar opposites of cognitive and emotional functions of our being; in other words, to see the unseen. URBAN FIGURATION URBAN DWELING
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