landscapes

"I have been working with combining painting and photography for more than ten years. Im strongly influenced by Asian traditions of landscape painting. In my early landscape works that I started in China, I developed a technique to print on painted metal plates. Now I use different mixed media for combining several layers of photographs digitally. All photographs are from different holy mountains in Asia, mainly China, Tibet and Japan. Through studying Chinese Landscape painting I got obsessed trying to understand this different culture of image making. By now I have climbed almost all Chinese holy mountains in search for this lost landscape. The "painting" in my images talks of a different presence on the surface of the image. Photography on the other hand is always trying to remind us of something real that actually existed. This controversy is what interests me."