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November 2014

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

– Studio at MANA Contemporary –

The past two month at MANA Contemporarywere very busy for me. I have been working on a set of interactive pieces as well as large scale watercolor paintings. The MANA building is very inspirational, I get to meet a lot of artists, visit their studios and invite them to mine. Such a creative environment forces me to do nothing but create, non-stop. November is my last month residing at the studios of ESKFF and I would like to invite you to visit my studio. I strongly recommend you to take a tour around MANA, which occur every Mon. - Fri. at 11 am, 2pm and 4 pm. On the evening of Nov. 24th we will have a goodbye party at ESKFF studios, 5pm - 8pm. Join us!

– Interview –

QAR: Your work deals with perhaps the most innate existential questions defining our species, such as ‘who are we on a universal scale’? Carl Sagan once stated, “we are a way for the cosmos to know itself”. Do you see your work as an extension of this in some way? What aspects of the cosmos inspire you most?

ES: I have started my series of cosmic works with a piece that was based on the photograph that was taken on February 14, 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 3.7 billion miles away from the Sun. Planet Earth appears as one of the droplets on my watercolor painting. That photograph gives you an idea of the dimension of space and our small place in it...