Already as a child, I was attracted to art. I participated in art classes and played music. But when I grew up and moved out of the community, I decided to study drawing properly and found an artist who would teach me the basics of drawing. She taught me the power of being a painter despite my inability to work by the rules (color mixing rules, for example). With experience I realized it would be ideal for me to draw in monochrome, to draw the light instead of the shadows. I define the colors as three primary color families: blue, yellow and red with each family ranging from dark to light. The inspiration for my latest work came from my night job in a gay men’s club. I sought emotions in such an unemotional environment and found out to my surprise that not everything is black or white. My work is a series of sensual paintings made with soft pastel on black paper. I use this technique to practice how to work with the play of light and shadow and to understand how to be a color blind painter. I choose to uncover my models but not to reveal their gaze in order to expose or hide their body language and to sharpen the opposites of softness and hardness.