UMA

About me

Understanding the Universe through creation

Using creation as a way to explore feelings and memories, my work dances around the themes of body, space and self. My fascination with colours began in Scotland. Enveloped by grey, often I would spend the day watching light get trapped in each rain drop through the car window.

Or as I held my mothers hand, eyes half closed from the cold, walking. Above, the inescapable leaden sky I had come to despise, omnipresent. To my untrained eye, white blanketed the entire city.  I remember the day she began asking me what colours would I use, were I to paint that moment. Suddenly  it became an excersize to notice each rare nuance.

Making it my mission to trap each colour, I pushed myself to experiment the way colours, almost like a group of people, interact with one another. Before long, the answer to her question would become a step by step process of every hue involved in reaching the final colour.

Understanding the way colours work, further compelled me to create. My world, my way of seeing things, suddenly had a way to exist outside of myself.