Halaburda

Country
United States
City
Newburgh

In addition to the psychological effects of the environment on our behavior, my art process delves into the complex undercurrents of our intimate and collective interactions.

It calls upon an emotional framework as a construct to bring the viewer as a participant in this experience. The blurry boundary between perception and experience has always inspired me: I am interested in the randomness of crossovers in the senses (synesthesia) through art by imaging abstract visuals - similar to data maps - based on the subconscious and a drifting creative process.  

My work recently engages also with human nature and any environment or element: it includes objects, plants, trees, or animals. Yet, we ignore and even hide the impact of their inwardness, mind, and personal capacity on the planet we share.  

Through paintings, photos, or digital works, I build imaginary coded and abstract algorithms taking up mental, geographic, and collective data based on the various missing links with the nonhuman world and revealing these invisible interconnections.  

Exploring forms and lines in my compositions, I imagine disaggregated cartographies that reveal our social tensions and the invisible connections with the nonhuman world instead of addresses and landmarks.  

I seek to constantly perfect this technique and renew my process of psychogeography mapping. Artworks address broader mental architecture within me to examine contradiction and harmony inside these new interconnections.

The titles I create for each artwork are the final result of this tracking by creating a new language, a universal language with objects, animals, or elements around us.  

Abstract keeps me focused on a quest for unlimited and unknown psychological territories as a springboard for the imagination.

Baalsomm

Architectural psychology is the study of interrelationships between humans and their physical environment.
I deeply believe nobody can escape architecture and its effects.
The effects are not immediately apparent but, little by little, affect our personality and our evolution.
Spatial urban or natural structures promote some patterns of behavior. 
In this series, I  imagine how abstract designs can animate us to certain ways of dealing with and using them.
I searched for feelings, emotions, and states of mind I would love to sense in architecture.

Quote
'Emotions and senses generate the shape of a map but it's more than a map.'