My paintings and drawings are reflections of my life's journey, which began in Bucharest, Romania and took me through the cultural and geographic environments of Vienna, Paris and Washington, DC.
Since my early years I have been attracted by the power of images as a means of exploring the subjective perception of time and space. Memories intermingled with symbols from art and history are projected onto paper or canvas as from a magic lantern. They are sequences of a never-ending story.
The little mechanical marionettes in my painting navigate on their wheels in a labyrinth where they meet with figures from the past: Casanova running around with his conquests, Saskia deciphering the enigma of Pascal's sphere, meninas playing with monkeys, wigged actors under arcades with chandeliers. Sometimes, the little marionettes are thrown together in what could be a fete galante; at other times, solitary, they run aimlessly on their useless, ill-fitting wheels. Are they really moving or just pretending? Are they on their own, or is somebody pulling the strings?