The Forgotten Palace

It all began in a child’s room. In this room, I spent most of my childhood years. In the morning, the room was bathed in sunlight. At night, when the light turned off, the corners of the room were illuminated by dark figures. My mother used to tell me that it was just a bad dream. I suffered for years from those nightmares. As a result, I created with my imagination a creature, which would protect me from those bad demons. My protector was a small and short dwarf. While I was growing up, the nightmares began to recede, because they started to relate with reality. It took me years to comprehend that I was subconsciously evolving into a monster, which was similar to the ones that used to visit me in my nursery. Reaction, anger and egoism. Those were few of the feelings which shaped my behavior. After several years, art provided an outlet, in order for the terrified child to be purified. The most important reason for the creation of these self-portraits was a personal need for catharsis. With the use of three different mediums: handicraft, painting and drawing, I attempted to bring those creatures from my subconscious to the photographic paper, in order to create The Forgotten Palace.