Statement — xeniaavlas-visualartist

Artist Statement

Each of my works begins from nothing. I join the wood, build the stretcher, mount the canvas — before thinking about the image,
I construct what will hold it. It's a way of inhabiting the painting's time from the very start. Then I work in oil on figures that withdraw from sight, bodies about to vanish or perhaps to emerge. Nature enters the work with the same logic as the body: not as background, but as unstable matter, subject to the same erosion. I'm drawn to that shared threshold — the moment when both a face and a place stop being recognizable yet hold onto something alive, something that resists disappearance.