My paintings are about the ongoing transformation of the human species and the uncertainty of its future. I paint figures and settings inspired by my reflections, informed by my exposure to the news, social media, and popular culture. Our species is, in my opinion, at a decisive moment where we are about to annihilate the ecosystem on which our survival depends while approaching the point of technological singularity with developments in artificial intelligence. These two aspects of contemporary reality motivate my will to explore the following questions in my work: Could technological singularity constitute a potential for global cooperation that would lead to the healing of the dying ecosystems? Or does it rather represent a potential threat to the existence of life on this planet?  

My new series of works is the expression of my thoughts about these questions. They present a society that is both threatened to disappear and on the verge of major changes. I believe humans are in a crucial transition environmentally and technologically. My art presents my vision of contemporary life in the current political and socio-economic context, with the omnipresence of smartphones, and the influence of big tech corporations. These factors strongly influence our culture and behavior. I define my most recent paintings as representations of the era I am living in, which I think is an unpredictable moment of metamorphosis for humankind. In my process, I ask the question: where is life headed in the future? My stance is that humans and their technologies, more specifically mobile web devices and artificial intelligence, will eventually merge to create cyborgs. The most recent pieces I created present the moment of dusk as a metaphor for this moment in history; a point in time between two different worlds, between two realities, and a transitional period.  

The visual language of the romantics and the fairy paintings of the Victorian era that came after are relevant in a contemporary context because late capitalism and advanced industrialism have exacerbated a desire for escape among people. It’s an aesthetic that can be borrowed best through painting in my opinion, and so I choose this medium. Turning to mythological and magical themes, particularly the world of the fairies, allowed 19th-century painters to escape the increasing industrialization and the rapidly growing scientific developments.

I do my own version of this when I paint aliens, I identify with the way these artists felt about rapid industrialization. I suggest that the paranormal phenomena of our era are a new domain of escape from the doomed fate that characterizes the context of our environmental, social, and geopolitical reality. We all know the famous “I want to believe” phrase with an image of a UFO, there have been posters, shirts, and stickers of it. It expresses a desire to break away into magic and fantasy, to neverland.