MICHAL BLAYER
As a multidisciplinary artist, I have been concentrating on watercolor painting and sculptures, mostly in reliefs, and installations made from various materials in recent years.
I tend to focus mainly on these two fields, but I adapt the medium in which I create to the subject I am exploring, learning and developing new techniques and mediums based on the project. I have become increasingly interested in installation projects that allow me to create a space in which the void plays as significant a role as the material itself. I believe that every material has a soul and a purpose greater than myself. I crave connection and give my full attention to sensuality, a comfort that surrounds me in the void.
In my watercolor paintings, I combine layering and realistic observation with intuitive and abstract color strokes. As a response to what I encounter around me, I use associative images that arise from physical and emotional sensations. In the process of creating the objects, I respond to "visions" that emerge within me and create them in reality so that I can comprehend the message they convey.
I aim to form intuitive connections and construct a story and experience from a variety of materials and images that, when brought together, constitute a living whole, which, despite its complexity, strives to be clean and complete.
Conceptually speaking, by using images from our daily lives, I examine how life extends beyond our subjective limits, and tell a story about cultural interaction and how it influences our lives. I challenge the binary distinction between self and other, between our "wild" and "civilized" selves. Through poetic and metaphorical language, I connect the "art of memory" with everyday life and attempt to distill those primal feelings.
The images I use range from the imagination-dream world to the reality around me, and reflect my curiosity for natural phenomena, science, and human culture. Throughout my work, I seek to create hybrids, dissolve boundaries between these images and worlds, and express a layered experience that communicates my feelings as a woman and mother who refuses to renounce her personal voice in the face of various social archetypes. By decoding critical thoughts and working with images that elicit antagonism in me, I examine my automatic reactions and shed light on the subjective and objective characteristics they contain, In order to understand my place in the world.