Memories

Collage, pencil and oil pastel. (42 x 29 cm.)

Personal comment: My first collage combining pencil and oil pastel techniques. I adopted a little the paper-cut technique of Matisse while I painted some papers and cut with the form of flower and seaweed. The content is about a teenage guy who looks through the door of roof floor of the house that he spent the summers of his childhood. While he looks to the landscape he evocates his memories. Interior which becomes colourful with the recalling of many memories is distinguished by the 'outside' which was abstracted by the monochrome texture of the pencil. The first plan of 'outside' gives a scene from Alice in Wonderland which supports the content to the childhood and dreamy atmosphere of the composition. The anthropomorphic fishes and seaweeds at the foreground represent the subconscious; always there but deep behind of interaction of the moment. In the composition regarding to the interaction of landscape and teenager, they seem to play main role. However, the subconscious characters are waved bottom and first plan to highlight their existence.