Artistic statement
My limited eye sight has shaped many things in my life.
As much as I might have longed for an alternate version of myself - a motorcycle racer, comparative language researcher or a surgeon - these were only abstract ideas, and dwelling on the lack of those possibilities didn’t make sense. Better to embrace the power of constraints and focus on what’s there rather than what’s not there.
I am the musician I became.
Having only 5% total sight without depth perception, I need high contrast, bright colors and clear edges to be able to identify and remember things. Some of the core concepts of my work are manifestations of how my particular lack of vision influenced my musical output in a very visual way with angular melodic lines and a specific approach to create coherent yet unconventional harmonic content. This approach enables me to easily remember my own compositions and to create a space in which I can travel freely between strictly composed and improvised material.
In the last ten years, my already very poor vision has further decreased and got distorted.nAs a result, my work is increasingly becoming to be about issues related to disabilities. I reflect on the restless, ambiguous, distorted, and at times scary visual perception I have, while I envision
raising awareness to all kinds of disabilities through artistic expression. I work on feedback loops around composition, improvisation, drawing, text and sound and explore my own emotional response mechanisms.
