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My work is a body of record of ideas, thoughts and feelings. They explore the relationship between facts and their manipulation. Advertisers, political campaigns, governmental institutions and media outlets employ strategies to direct public opinion to their advantage often without consideration of facts. In my work covered text is used as a metaphor for censorship, cover-up and manipulation. I cover the existing texts with completely unrelated forms and colors, as contradiction to the facts. In contemporary society, where information is abundantly available, its manipulation has become more and more attractive to serve the interests of its producer. The creativity manifests itself in a continual process of events, that conclude in a final destination and not as an outcome. As an unknown adventure it takes place within the personal wholeness based on the development of one’s intimate thoughts feelings and possibilities at the given time. Thus artist's imagination is bound to simplicity and as a rule is in conflict with common sense. An environment free of common sense invokes the abstract qualities of the thought, thereby stimulating a uniquely energized dialogue. To me, each work is a reflection of the self in fragmented way like pieces of a puzzle subject to “solution”.
I strive not to reproduce the nature, as it may be perceived, but to speak of beauty and truth. The beauty is not what is comprised of visually attractive elements, but it is that whose elements are in harmony with each other and its environment not only visually, but more importantly in conceptual sense. And the truth is that whose order is absolute where the essence of harmony is realized.
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Kaloust Guedel