Our visual environment is a complex net of signs, pictures, texts and symbols whose origins are hard to track. The references are constantly intersecting one another and appearances are travelling across the world. I regard picture as a proto-screen where the layering of visual material is being projected as the confrontation with the flood of images. In the thesis, I analyse how disparate elements converge in my painting practice. On the one hand, I make use of the recycling which can, within the notion of art, include a variety of different approaches. The side products of painting, text fragments, abandoned sketches and notes return into the picture. On the other hand I use magazine photographs and reproductions of different artworks which is related to appropriation. The latter raises questions about authorship and originality and stimulates the examination of modern communication and reproducibility of images. Combining and manipulating the visual material results in a picture within a picture. Images are not isolated, but changeable entities that are constantly migrating – they are visual nomads.
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