SAFIRA KLEIN

My love for painting stems from the process of looking - observing the world, witnessing it... Similar to the act of listening, witnessing is clean and unchanging. It doesn't have its own form. Nevertheless, the life experiences I am dancing through will express themselves in my paintings, simply because that is what is being witnessed when I enter conversation... I begin the process by choosing a subject. I search for a sensation of resonance with whatever it is I'm looking at; be it a self-portrait, a still-life, or a landscape. I wait to hear an internal ‘yes', a testament to my curiosity, an understanding that there is a conversation to be had. Once I can honestly ask: ‘Who are you? What is to be explored here?' I have gained permission to venture into the process.