Portals

Scientific magic’s ever-present aura surrounds each and every one of us. It is the process of change that occurs in our earthly nature and beyond in the endless depth of the universe. These continuous developments represent the driving force for the artist’s desire to create. By playfully blending them with mythology, she summons glimpses into other realms of possibilities. Those arcane glances she refers to as her own Portals. Any particular constructed portal may be found within remote parts of your mind or is reached only through an eldritch apparatus. In either case the otherworldly scenery is frozen in time but grants a soft focus to what may be just within reach. While the artist’s first glimpses into other realities began in late 2018, they only became intensified through the worldwide lockdown a year and a half later. The artist constructed sets, elaborate in nature. She sculpted masks, incorporated prosthetics as well as special effect pieces and hand painted each individual item separately. Hereby the project aims to fuse photography, performance and other visual arts into one, ultimately resulting in an ongoing assembly of imaginary worlds. Yet the unknown remains strangely familiar. Those arcane glances she refers to as her own Portals. All works are self portraits, as the artist creates multidimensional characters, who may appear spooky to some and beautiful to others. Human animal hybrids, characters merging with plants, myths, icons and many in between, this project flirts with the unknown, with fantasy, with dreamscapes.