The work begins to a large extent as an idea formation – as the active mind is formful in itself, prior to any external application. From given shape of thought a poetic profile emerges, first through figuration and then the body at large, in a ritual/celebratory mode and modification; and finally through Eros as one aesthetic core device. The composition tries to essentialize this approach by a simplification of means, primarily through use of lines equal or above shade and color, corresponding most clearly to ideation and though without immediate delivery of meaning, endeavors to be convincing on its own. If the space of mind speaks fundamentally as pre-existing form, my work tries to approximate this state, by evoking its figuration back to a modified origin in the viewer’s mind.

(artist’s statement)

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These considerations came to me while viewing the work of Clement Jesch:

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