As a painter, I have tried a variety of media and techniques in order to create works that are at once simple, attractive, and meaningful. Lately, I have used bottles as media instead of traditional canvasses. Since I started doing this work, I have be...  more

As a painter, I have tried a variety of media and techniques in order to create works that are at once simple, attractive, and meaningful. Lately, I have used bottles as media instead of traditional canvasses. Since I started doing this work, I have been nagged by the same question: Why bottles?

I have been fascinated by bottles for as long as I can remember. Bottles are ubiquitous and universal, and they come in all kinds of imaginable shapes. They may all fit the classical description, meaning that they are all containers with a body, a more or less narrow neck and a mouth, but they can have various contours and be made from different materials. Apart from traditional bottles, such as a demijohn, or the ones used for Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne, rum, Coca-Cola, and so on, some depict human figures, animal forms, fruits, and even buildings.