Art is Creation
Creation is Art
The Magic universe of Mariza Nikolaou
About me
_Personal Notes_
Art is creation, is a way for me to express and understand my self and my environment, is a biological need and my everyday meditation.
It also is a way for me to communicate with other people.
I love making experiments and create with water colors/acrylics/photographs and my own poems. It's a mixed media technique. Sometimes I use pencils or brushes, other times I paint with my hands, use pieces of papers from books or old magazines, depending on my mood and the way that the specific art piece directs me to. When I create I am interested in random and unpredictable situations because I want to avoid the responsibility of selecting; this way of thinking is liberating for me. I just like to go by the flow.
I wish that when someone comes in contact with my art, has the opportunity to relax, to imagine, to daydream, to recollect broken memories, to get inspired.
Finally I dedicate my Abstract Expressionism Art to the Stray Cats that I take care of and any income I have from potential sales, I will offer it to them.
Photography was my first love and passion since I was 5 years old. All the family photos were shot by me because I have the patience to observe the frame, to follow the time, guess the moment, be there and act with all my sense, all my self. Takes without breathing, my way to convert nothing to something worthy of being remembered forever.
Photography satisfied my desire for painting from the early years of my life, I wanted to paint so much when I was child, the first days in school I had a trauma, the teacher asked us to paint a grocery store and all this with the perspective and scale was very difficult and incomprehensible for me, so I left the idea of painting.
Maybe for that reason my photos resemble paintings many times.
My love for photography, travelling and photographic dark room directed me to cinema.
Cinema is a way of living, a way of thinking. It is my tool to dream and imagine, to sense my life, how it is and recognise my self, how I am. Working as a professional photographer and cinematographer in feature films and documentaries since 2001, I learned to forget, remember and renew my experience, in order to develop my skills, I feel that everything in an artistic way and sense is poetry.
Poetry is my filter, the light in my darkness, the way to stand the pain, meanings that i don t understand, the boredom, the ugliness, the beauty, the loneliness; death.
Poetry comes when everything is left without meaning and shows me the way to find the substance and when everything passes, in the end remains the poem, the holy dust of our lives.
Thank you for your time !
Art is creation, is a way for me to express and understand my self and my environment, is a biological need and my everyday meditation.
It also is a way for me to communicate with other people.
I love making experiments and create with water colors/acrylics/photographs and my own poems. It's a mixed media technique. Sometimes I use pencils or brushes, other times I paint with my hands, use pieces of papers from books or old magazines, depending on my mood and the way that the specific art piece directs me to. When I create I am interested in random and unpredictable situations because I want to avoid the responsibility of selecting; this way of thinking is liberating for me. I just like to go by the flow.
I wish that when someone comes in contact with my art, has the opportunity to relax, to imagine, to daydream, to recollect broken memories, to get inspired.
Finally I dedicate my Abstract Expressionism Art to the Stray Cats that I take care of and any income I have from potential sales, I will offer it to them.
Photography was my first love and passion since I was 5 years old. All the family photos were shot by me because I have the patience to observe the frame, to follow the time, guess the moment, be there and act with all my sense, all my self. Takes without breathing, my way to convert nothing to something worthy of being remembered forever.
Photography satisfied my desire for painting from the early years of my life, I wanted to paint so much when I was child, the first days in school I had a trauma, the teacher asked us to paint a grocery store and all this with the perspective and scale was very difficult and incomprehensible for me, so I left the idea of painting.
Maybe for that reason my photos resemble paintings many times.
My love for photography, travelling and photographic dark room directed me to cinema.
Cinema is a way of living, a way of thinking. It is my tool to dream and imagine, to sense my life, how it is and recognise my self, how I am. Working as a professional photographer and cinematographer in feature films and documentaries since 2001, I learned to forget, remember and renew my experience, in order to develop my skills, I feel that everything in an artistic way and sense is poetry.
Poetry is my filter, the light in my darkness, the way to stand the pain, meanings that i don t understand, the boredom, the ugliness, the beauty, the loneliness; death.
Poetry comes when everything is left without meaning and shows me the way to find the substance and when everything passes, in the end remains the poem, the holy dust of our lives.
Thank you for your time !
Watercolours
Acrylics
Pencils
Inks
Back to memories
Losing my illusion
Contact
- Athens, Attica, Greece
