Fish hat Painting

My name is Michael Ricardo Pierre Wong Loi Sing I was born in Paramaribo, Suriname south America; I live in France now, in the south of France. I started as an autodidact, and after having exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Holland in 1995, in a group exhibition 20 years of art from Suriname, by curator Rudi Fuchs, I went back to Holland to get my masters degree in Art. I paint dream like paintings which are often visible from four sides. Sometimes two paintings which are a dip tic become a multiple dip tic because more sides correspond with more sides. I paint nature, women, people, stories, fantasy, and i try to create a new way of presenting an iconography or symbolism in my art. one that is new and refers to my origins. South America has a very old iconography, although it has been forgotten or because it originates from an oral tradition, it stays abstract. Suriname as a country exists only for about 500 years, its art as a comparative image to Europe's art is very young. It's petroglyphs are ancients of course, also its amerindian culture and images. I am a mixture of many cultures , Caribbean indian, African, Caucasian, Jewish, Indian, Portugese, and Chinese. the origins of my art stem from the continents that drift within my soul.