Dream Carpets I 2020-2022

The woven cloak or carpet with its designs is often used as a symbol for the complex symbolic patterns of life and the secret designs of fate. Dreams and the unconscious tell more about our life pattern, helping to fulfil our destiny rather than resisting it… (M.L. von Franz - The Interpretation of Fairy Tales)

The dream-carpets are created by an unintentional drawing method allowing the presence of constructive and figurative elements. This intermediate realm, as Paul Klee explained, is somewhere between the active and passive; it is created by getting rid of vanishing points and dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior, top and bottom; making it possible to develop imaginary landscapes or fantastic figures. The layering is continued to an extent where the original figures and their connections are lost. Through the use of colour with a function to divide or unite, a new landscape is created, overwriting the original content, changing its meaning but still carrying it within the structure. This creates an analogy to dreams, where the image generated by the unconscious consists of known imagery, but having a new, different meaning.

dream carpet, original pianting, biomorphic hieroglyphs

This large scale (47"x59") dream-carpet consists of several layers of biomorphic hieroglyphics, referring to the complex symbolic patterns of life and the secret designs of fate.

This painting contains a selection of traditional Hungarian inlay ornaments from the 1500s.

The subtrate of this work is a meditative painting i made years ago, now only partially visible through the negative spaces of recent layers. The dynamics of visible and non-visible refer to the relationship between conscious and unconscious.

A few paintings and sculptures presented during a solo show at Érd Gallery (Room 2)

Bimorphic hieroglyphics applied in a meditative process are fighting for the state of visibility and invisibility; which reflects the tension between conscious and unconscious.

A few paintings and sculptures presented during a solo show at Érd Gallery (Room 1)

A fully abstract dream-carpet where the symbolic shapes intersect and cover each other. Layering, transparency and obscurity, positive and negative space are used to symbolize the depths of the unconscious.

With a symbolic tree of life in its centre, this painting portrays a battle between light and dark; between fire, wind and smoke. The formative powers of primordial shapes and symbols draw you into a visceral world of conundrum, where chaos and order are unbalanced in a balanced way.

acrylic painting on yupo, biomorph hieroglyphs