Concept
for the exhibition Western Lands is a combination of W.S. Burroughs’ book
Western Lands and fragments of personal history. In the works apart from
paintings and drawings I also use family documents from World War II.
The
main motives of my works are fragments of memories from my personal life and
family history and fragments of Burroughs’ mythology. Through my works, I’m trying
to analyze the stories of the family members that are gone and the ones that
are left. By using assemblage/collage to intertwine (past and present) all the
elements, I’m trying to create my own world. My work consists of paintings, assemblage/collage
and drawings with words. Every scrap of paper and document is important because
it represents all that is left of a family that once existed. I use Burroughs’
work and his idea of the afterlife, in which every man has to deal with his own
demons on the way to heaven or perish, as a personal way of dealing with the
hard family history. The work was also inspired by my great grandfathers
writings in which he tells of the hard family history .
