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Flatness is Deep, You Too. (detail)
After the end of a relationship in 2012, I was polishing this surface for six months, revealing and mixing underlying layers. Inspired by Gerhard Richter's quote: ‘Letting a thing come, rather than creating it – no assertions, constructions, formulations, inventions, ideologies – in order to gain access to all that is genuine, richer, more alive: to what is beyond my understanding.’ + The video 'painting' on this website includes the making process of his painting, mixed with images made by my friend Shura, who has been reporting on war crimes in his country.