Bowl

73 x 50 cm., oil on canvas.

"I've always been drawn to monochrome, glazes, and blurs—objects that disappear and fade into the atmosphere, both in photography and painting. In my research, I use photography as a reference to facilitate the task. I try to strip the object of other content, to which I add atmosphere, giving it prominence. The object only accompanies the final presentation. I provoke uncomfortable compositions and barely visible finishes, taken to the extreme of disappearing. Photography serves as a document for me about realities that can later disappear. In my works, I represent solitary scenes with grays, few tonal contrasts, and atmospheric spaces. I use blurs and glazes to distance objects, giving them another life and context. I want to create illusions through technique, so that the object can be seen differently than it should be, represented in another way. In this way, I eliminate excess insignificant information until the image is left only for the sensitive part."

Diana Coandă