CV, kind of …
Quite uneventful, except for my primary school art teacher, a great watercolorist as I discovered later on, who found a way to discipline some of his more restless pupils, me included, (well, both of us, actually) by locking us up after school into his study full of various art books. Flipping pages and pages of beautiful pictures revealed a new, yet unseen world and started an insatiable hunger for discovering things of beauty in most unlikely places. Despite my teacher’s efforts, I never learned to draw well enough, but he managed to show us other ways to express ourselves and was prepared to provoke and support our efforts, no matter how inept they may have been at the time.
Discovery of photography not long after enabled me to paint with light despite the lack of traditional artistic skills. And started countless hours in darkroom, dipping fingers in chemicals and waiting for unexpected images to show at last. While studying journalism, I was lucky enough to be either working with or interviewing some of the best Slovene photographers of the time, learning a few tricks of the trade on the way. If I am to pick just one name, I’d say Stojan Kerbler with his wide-angle family portraits was the one whose work I was most impressed by. Which is not to say that others and not only photographers, did not influence and enrich my perception of the world out there.
And long after there were suddenly computers promising to mimic traditional artistic tools for guys like me. And finally there’s digital photography, enabling me to shoot first, think, tweak and twist later.
Which brings us to another topic, quite redundant considering artist’s work should speak for itself. And I’m sure they do, but:
Artist statement
There’s this hunger for beauty in every form and shape that drives my creative process, consisting of finding unusual or unlikely views of ordinary things … and knowing there are others out there to find enjoyment in my findings.
Being essentialy a collector, I find photography, especially digital, to be the perfect media, as it gives me a tool to harvest images almost unconsciously. Collected pictures are then, and not so seldom years after being taken, tweaked, twisted, mixed and abused to the point of revealing what appears to be their inner image. Which quite so often takes a form of a black and white photograph. Because, despite extensive use of computers, photography, percieved as an impression of light, remains the main source of my artistic creation.
… your comments are welcome at any time
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