Artist Statement

While conducting artistic research into the complex questions surrounding the emergence, development, and survival of life, I chose an environment where photographs must be taken in uncontrolled weightlessness: I do all my photographic work while scuba diving - below the surface, the pressures of everyday life disappear, leaving space to observe, search, and create. Using the ocean as a studio, I search for analogies to human art history in real, living nature. I create the conditions so that the works are formed by natural processes, mainly by chance.

Chance, which at first glance appears random, could be a central law following a rule or principle, or even a predestination. The project The Secret Code of Nature looks for this law at its smallest scale. The random movements of hunting organisms, attracted to underwater light sources during night dives, draw a progression from dot to line, from line to symbol, and from symbol to nascent form. The project documents the process of survival. Perhaps, with the final fragments of their lives, the organisms draw a secret code, a message.

What begins as a line becomes a construction. Developing the theme of survival, long years of work on nature-made abstractions brought the projects The Prehistoric Art of Nature and The Jewel of Nature to life . They show the peaceful, vibrant competition for space between corals. The nature of the selected objects, corals growing on the remains of previous life, as well as the analogies to art history, brings a sense of rebirth to these works.

The True Magic reaches toward what cannot be seen: the moment of rebirth itself, the cycle where light, water, air, and particles converge beneath the surface.

And then the same chance receives new material: ours. Striving to create change through art, I make work rooted in ecological and political concerns. Using marine debris collected underwater, I stage a kind of Big Bang and draw a parallel with the emergence of life, although, in this case, it is modern and artificial. In the weightlessness of the underwater environment, accidental collisions between discarded objects create temporary sculptures: a knight, a strange creature, a ballerina. The project Chronicles of an Emerging Diversity brings together photographs of this new, artificial diversity, drawing attention to urgent environmental and social issues.