Zeid Founouni

b.1967, majored in philosophy,and living in Vancouver,bc.

Constantly engaged by the aesthetics of the world around me, analyzing consciously and subconsciously(as I often catch myself doing) every object, setting, thought, feeling, person, relationship, etc. that the day presents me with, and how it resonates withing the context of artistic value, a grueling habit but one which I cannot imagine myself without. When it comes to building objects of art, whether at the sketching stage or at the more advanced stage of layering paint and allowing a free flow of a paint brush or a paint knife(loosely termed as a "mistake") to remain, I tap from a complex model already built largely in my head from an amalgamation of ideas,colors and tones, pauses, emotions (or lack of certain ones), composition, and materials.