""Pre Philatelic"" Painting

Prabhuji (David, Ben Yosef, Har-Zion) is an artist, writer, composer, and painter, who was born on March 21, 1958 in Santiago, Chile. His works stems from a solitary contemplative life and reflects the depths of his inner experience. He explored drawings and oil painting until he found his original abstract style with acrylic and watercolor. He always paints under the premise that the topic is secondary while what is essential is the painting. ..."We are all born artists. Since I got stuck in childhood, I consider myself one of them: a certified weirdo for whom art is more than enough. Security brings with it a bit of death; that is why we artists choose uncertainty. But we have a special gift to move in the dark by our own light. Aware of the abyss that separates revelation and our works, we live in a frustrated attempt to faithfully express the mystery of the spirit. I paint sighs, hopes, silences, aspirations, and melancholies… inner landscapes and sunsets of the soul. I am a painter of the indescribable, inexpressible, and indefinable of our depths… and maybe I just write colors and paint words. Since childhood, little windows of paper captivated my attention; through them I visited places, met people, and made friends."...