"The process is the concept". When I heard this phrase I didn’t understand it. I knew that growth happens to a concept through process, but for process to itself be a concept was a difficult notion to absorb at first. I started working to explore the meaning of those words. I concentrated on my process and through that, I watched how it is affects a concept.
Now that I’ve been doing this for two years, I can see the processes of my work have gone beyond their impetus and how and my concepts have simultaneously grown deeper. I recognized the change in my way of analyzing my work and how to see the needed changes. I believe that my work now evolves more progressively in fewer and more drastic steps than the way it was.
I recognize that intent is problematic. I used to want to make work that provoked the recipients' minds and raised questions. Now I see my work is entering personal venues that I ‘m not sure I want to take, but I am fascinated at the same time I have no control over where my thought processes are going. My work still has the intent of breaking audiences’ expectations, but not in the ways it used to be.
Though a cultural or a religious background is not a dominant inspiration for me, I am aware that my vision as an artist is impacted by the culture I was raised in and to which I still belong. But I have never felt the need to speak for my culture, only the need to speak to other fellow human beings. Now that I feel that I’m entering territories where inclination or attraction rather than intent is the inspiration, I feel even more certain that I am speaking to individuals not to peoples or cultures or groups.
My work emerges from personal, subjective, local, and culturally-influenced experiences, but that reaches out to our shared humanity. For this reason I hope my audiences will come to my work with out admitting to the foreign tone in my name. My audiences are all fellow humans who live their lives dealing with every day pressures, facing many questions that need to be answered, and living with dilemmas we face in every part of this world.