And now, why romantic? Do you know Baudelaire's definition of Romanticism? He said Romanticism is a "mode of feeling". My paintings do express a "mode of feeling". So in New York I have been defined as "a contemporary romantic" artist.

Am I only a romantic? I feel me also as an expressionist painter. Do you know Munch? What a wonderful expression of feeling! His painting "the Scream" is vibrating. You can feel the despair, the fear in it! It expresses more than a simple emotion. Try to master such an "emotion"! You don't get it! It expresses what I call "a force". Yet, my aim is to paint these "forces" and also the "games" (yes, just the ones of transactional analysis!) that happen between them.

But, who plays these games? Do you know what Gurdijeff and Ouspensky wrote? They spoke of the many "I"s in us. Psychology speaks of "sub-personalities", esoteric psychology of "thought forms". Don't you find some of them in late Goya?

Why I paint "I"s (personalities), games and forces? Because we constantly inhibit many "I"s in us. Through esoteric art I try to set them free in my acrylic paintings. I try to give them the right to exist. I hope art makes it possible.