Melcul Rosu(the red snail)

               
 Dimensiune:20/20 cm

 Tehnica:ulei pe panza

The Red Snail is about the birth of concept snail I played with in so many of my works. It is how I discovered it as a child, in it’s natural environment. You see it as many children sees them for the first time: slowly sliding in grass in a sunny morning after a rainy night.

Pomul Invizibil(The invisible tree)

 

 Dimensiune: 50/40 cm
  Tehnica:ulei pe panza

                                      The invisible tree is a gateway or a bridge between physical and astral. The “invisibility” of the tree suggests it’s a metaphor that suggests that it belongs to both universes. When a spirit interacts with the tree it starts to gain mass and to become human.                                       

Sustragerea lui Adam-(Adam's withdrawal)

 Tehnica: ulei pe panza

 Dimensiune:100/70cm

It’s about the bible scene where Eve convinces Adam to eat the apple.
The inspiration was Plato's androgyne  being. In the picture Adam and Eve were the same entity, a vibrational spirit who when touching the tree the action began.

Instead of apple i used the symbol of snail. To me snails are bad. The Symbolism of snail comprises: excess, contempt, indifference, salaciousness,negative influence, disease, primal instinct, contamination, and it is also an intermediary between the spiritual world and physical world. But instead of eating the snail/ apple Adam withdraws giving a whole new meaning to the episode.
By kissing the snail Eve becomes corrupt and she starts to become matter. Before that she was in an astral plane of existence and now she’s becoming a part of our reality.
The main technique I used to represent the astral world is something that I call “controlled dripping and splashing”.