I draw to save myself. I don’t think of myself as an artist in the classical sense, but rather as a person working on their own soul.

Emil Ivanov

I draw when I feel that something inside me is rearranging—when the “matrix” is shifting and I need to see it in order to understand it.

I work with a fine liner

because the line is

honest. It does not

decorate or conceal—

it diagnoses and leaves

traces of inner

tension on the page.

It often takes me time to fully realize what I have experienced, but when I return to a drawing, I see how literally I have taken my state apart into fragments—in order to simplify it and make it easier to accept.