Blue Figure
Artist Statement: Blue Figure
Blue Figure emerged from a process of inner dissolving, a slow melting of the rigid structures that define the self. In its creation, I allowed the heart to soften beyond the boundaries of ego, belief, and conditioning. What remains, once these layers fall away, is something unnameable: the structural essence of being, the quiet foundation beneath all identity.
This approach may seem volatile, even disruptive, because it challenges the frameworks we are taught to live within. Yet this has become the central work of my life: to let the identities, false or otherwise, slip away so that a deeper truth, the one life already holds, can reveal itself. When the mind is left without guidance, it can feel like a child given the keys to a Ferrari without instruction; anxiety rushes in. But when the illusion melts, the heart becomes visible, not as sentiment or cliché, but as a profound form of liberation.
Blue Figure is not the lesson of dissolving; it is the result of it. The work may be embraced or resisted, but it speaks from a place of clarity and love. In the softened space beyond old boundaries, new forms appear, visions, memories, and dream fragments rising like breadcrumbs along a path of discovery.
The figure itself carries echoes of my life. Its curves and posture remind me of the beauty and power of 1970s style I was exposed to as a teen in NYC, especially the bold elegance of Black women during that era, and the vibrant palette of global design from New York to Milan. Its glossy surfaces recall the early days of plastics as high art. My father brought Kartell to the United States, long before it became a designer’s household name; the early pieces, still bearing the Beylerian name on their molds, lived in my childhood like quiet teachers.
I grew up surrounded by artists, designers, and the visual language of pop culture I still remember my father celebrating my use of blue and yellow, the design colors of the year then. His encouragement planted seeds I still carry.
Childhood, after all, never leaves us. And this work speaks directly to that truth: to transcend our conditioning, we must acknowledge it, then melt through it.
As I continue dissolving, images emerge, dreams, visions, possibilities. They appear like clues on a path through a dark forest: fears, shadows, and old demons guarding the doorway to transformation. But the breadcrumbs are there for anyone willing to follow them. This melting is not an end; it is the merging of dream and reality, the unveiling of inner treasures long buried.
For me, Blue Figure is one such treasure. It holds two principles I return to again and again: love and truth. These are the forces I live by, practice with, and express through my work. Everything else melts away.
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