Extra large, extra small, unusual, unwilling to fit in

Outliers

This body of work is an exploration into light/shadow and surface. I create a literal surface as well as a pictorial illusion of one. 
Topographic textures rise and fall, peaks cast shadows and paint pools in the valleys.
Not quite sculptures, these works are not strictly paintings either. 
 Like certain natural phenomena, the works draw and hold the attention of the viewer.
 Inspired by solar flares, aerial views of mountains, dry river beds and rock formations, my paintings are a journey into the known and unknown. 

Extreme Textures 

"I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, ... which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. ... Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: ... the Self, the wholeness of the personality, which if all goes well is harmonious."
— Carl Jung

Mandala's symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises."
 —David Fontana

Mandala Redefined

Conceal To Reveal: 
covering parts of a painting brings attention to the pockets of the work that remain uncovered, they come into focus, like small intimate moments, like little secrets whispered. The more one looks the more one notices. 

Oksana Prokopenko