A Little Bit Salle

These three oil paintings, created in 2023, emerged from a blend of internet stock images and vintage magazine clippings, showcasing my deep interest in composition over the image’s inherent nature. I strove to retain the distinct origins of these sources, weaving a deliberate tapestry of diverse influences. A key aspect was my restrained color palette, where black and white mingle with sparse hues, lending a stark, reflective quality. Reflecting on them, I see a striking Sallean essence, mirroring David Salle’s fragmented style. I’ve long been captivated by how the canvas absorbs these presences, diluting them into something new, yet my question probes the source’s nature—whether any originality remains. I embrace influence with a dramatic twist, hoping originality emerges as a revelation in a single brushstroke. Though this may seem absurd, this process allows me to reshape culture to my own flavor.

There is a lot of visual mixture in these paintings, they were going to be disconnected images but little by little they landed in a sort of a mental landscape once again. I accept that my aim was to say something that can cool my mind out, and yet scream in three colors without forgetting the blacks and the whites. The surprising result is that I want a lambo, I want a party in Paris and I want a woman in a red dress.