Michael Yorga

My name is Michael Yorga. I was born on March 11, 1971 in Bacau Romania.

In my youth, I was intrigued by man's ability to imprint three dimensional illusions on any one dimensional plane. I was impressed with the visuals in our local monastery and, as a hobby I started painting ceilings with candle smoke.

I developed a natural ability to draw, and to arrange colors to distort the images and to create impressions that my subconscious develops and feeds my instinct in times discourse.

I use that instinct to produce visual memories on canvas and other mediums.

I do not use new canvases, I recycle old ones. I do not use erasers. (Sometimes I break these rules.)

I do not use subjects. I use imagination.

I do not adhere to any standards or methods that I learned. I use them as influential stepping stones.

Without art we are animals.

Since men drew shapes and animals on cave walls we have in print proof of humans evolution and their development of their intuitive imagination. As humans grew, so did the ability of humans to draw illusions on one dimensional plains, to appear as three dimensional illusions or expressions.

El Greco and Caravaggio defined the renaissance period in that regard. Caravaggio is where I...